In meiner Dissertation untersuche ich konzeptionelle und ökonomische Aspekte der Resilienz von Ökosystemen, also der Widerstandsfähigkeit von Systemen gegenüber exogenen Störungen. Hierbei stütze ich mich auf wissenschaftstheoretische Argumentation und ökologisch-ökonomische...

Social norms and intrinsic motivations lead to voluntary environmentally responsible behaviour even in the absence of environmental policy. The paper shows that the introduction of environmental policy may lead to a reduction of voluntary abatement and sometimes may increase emissions and...

In this paper a method is developed to derive prices for natural goods from information about material and energy flows within ecosystems. The derivation is based on an analogy between ecological and economic systems: both systems are characterized by flows of material and energy. To derive...