Lecture: Land-Use Economics: Behaviour and Policy - Details

General information

Course name	Lecture: Land-Use Economics: Behaviour and Policy
Semester	WiSe 2025/26
Current number of participants	12
Home institute	BWL, insb. Finanzierung und Banken
participating institutes	VWL, insb. Empirische Mikroökonomik
Courses type	Lecture in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Next date	Thursday, 26.03.2026 14:30 - 16:30, Room: Großer Hörsaal [WiWi]
Lehrsprache(n)	Englisch
ECTS points	5

Lecturers

• Jun. Prof. Dr. Bartosz Bartkowski

Rooms and times

Hörsaal D [Mel]

Monday: 16:15 - 17:45, weekly (14x)

Großer Hörsaal [WiWi]

Thursday, 19.02.2026, Thursday, 26.03.2026 14:30 - 16:30

Fields of study

• Juristische und Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät > Wirtschaftswissenschaftlicher Bereich - School of Economics and Business > Master
• Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät III - Agrarwiss., Geowiss. und Informatik > Institut für Agrar- und Ernährungswissenschaften > Master Agrarwissenschaften
• Lectures and Courses in English (International Studies) > Faculty of Law, Economics and Business

Module assignments

• Volkswirtschaftslehre Economics MA120, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2019/20 > 2.1 Elective Modules > WIW.08331.01 - Land-Use Economics: Behaviour and Policy, valid from WiSe 2024/25 > Course 1: Lecture (Vorlesung)
• Volkswirtschaftslehre Eur.u.int.Wirtsch.MA120, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2020/21 > 2.2.1. Wirtschaftswissenschaften > WIW.08331.01 - Land-Use Economics: Behaviour and Policy, valid from WiSe 2024/25 > Course 1: Lecture (Vorlesung)
• Volkswirtschaftslehre Eur.u.int.Wirtsch.MA120, Version of accreditation valid from WS 2020/21 > 1.1.1. Wirtschaftswissenschaften > WIW.08331.01 - Land-Use Economics: Behaviour and Policy, valid from WiSe 2024/25 > Course 1: Lecture (Vorlesung)

Comment/Description

The interactive lecture provides a combined economic and social-ecological systems perspective on land-use problems (agriculture, renewable energy production, nature conservation) with a focus on the behaviour of land-users and the design of sustainable land-use policies. The course involves an introduction to agent-based modelling in NetLogo (https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/). Theoretical/conceptual inputs, often based on discussions of relevant scientific publications, will be interchanged with hands-on units on programming in NetLogo.

Students will learn to:
* interpret and evaluate land-use problems in the context of social-ecological systems
* identify and evaluate land-use-relevant behavioural theories regarding their suitability for a given context
* criticially evaluate different policy instruments in the land-use context with respect to the coniditions of their effectiveness and select suitable instruments in a context-specific way
* develop simple agent-based land-use models in NetLogo.