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Wissenschaft verstehen: die Preisträger des Wettbewerbs 2010
In: Gaia [20,1,Beil.] = [2011,1,Beil.]
Degrowth, modernity, and the open society
In: UFZ Discussion Papers Bd. 7/2017
Abstract: Critiques of modernity often align with critiques of the existing institutions of liberal democracy. We argue that the degrowth movement can learn from the experience of past critiques of modernity by avoiding their major mistake - that is, (inadvertently) conflating a critique of modernity with a rejection of liberal democratic institutions. Hence, we suggest to frame degrowth as the promotion of new vocabularies within a deliberative account of democracy. Specifically, we proceed in three steps: first, we briefly review some essential critiques of modernity and their stance towards liberal democracy. Second, we illustrate how some of the argumentative patterns within the degrowth literature may inadvertently endanger core values of the open society. Third, we introduce our perspective on a liberal degrowth that aims to fulfil the "unfinished project of modernity"
Socioeconomic surveys on private tanker water markets in Jordan: objectives, design and methodology
In: UFZ Discussion Papers Bd. 4/2017
Existence value, biodiversity, and the utilitarian dilemma
In: UFZ Discussion Papers Bd. 2/2017
Abstract: Existence value has been argued to be a significant part of the total economic value of some ecosystems. However, its compatibility with the welfare economic foundations of economic valuation is very limited - it is difficult to logically conceive of changes in existence. Moreover, when applied to biodiversity, the concept of existence value gives rise to an instance of a more fundamental problem of economic valuation, termed here the utilitarian dilemma: it can be argued conceptually that biodiversity cannot have existence value; yet the results of empirical studies suggest that people in stated preference studies can be expected to assign existence value to it. The utilitarian dilemma arises as the analysing economist must deal somehow with 'erroneous' preferences. There seems to be no simple solution to the dilemma, but deliberative monetary valuation has the potential to alleviate it
Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft: ein Förderschwerpunkt des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung in der Bilanz - ein Auszug ; [BMBF-Förderschwerpunkt "Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft", wissenschaftliche Begleitung und Koordinierung FKZ 0330534AN]
Der vorliegende Text ist Bestandteil der Abschlusspublikation des BMBF-Förderschwerpunktes "Nachhaltige Waldwirtschaft" [2006 bis 2010]