After successful completion of the course, students will know:- to understand problems on ecological economics,- to apply tools and indicators addressed to policy makers: Causal changes, DPSIR, eDPSIR, System Dynamics modelling, water pluralistic approaches

Lectures start with a description of the objectives of the day and introduction to the different topics. Different activities with the students are planned for each day: Writing; Presenting; Playing games; Computer modelling; Working in groups and  individually; Video watching; Discussions; Visit to the National Park of Vesuvio (Italy) as case study is planned.

The aim of the course is to introduce students from different disciplines new scientific methods to enable them to present, model and represent complex socio-environmental systems.

Good level of English is required (reading, writing, oral expression).Experience conducting interviews is an advantage. 

No prerequisites are needed.

"Systems science and modeling for ecological economics" by Alexey Voinov (2008). The lecturer will provide some information from the book in class.To write the seminar work, please, read Academic writing by Felicitas Macgilshrist in Schoningh UTB (2014).Other material like data, scientific articles, videos, etc will be given in Moodle.

Assignments during the seminarField workWritten seminar work

Assignments: Exercises and discussions after some topics.Field work: qualitative and quantitative data will be collected through focus groups and interviews. The content will be agreed in class. Destination of the field work will be communicated in class but most probably it will be in Italy (Naples). Contact the lecturer if you need this information beforehand.Seminar work:  the aim will be discussed in class and the methods will be those learnt in class. The field work (interviews) is needed to acquire the data. Design of the interviews will be done individually or in groups depending on the number of students.

Assignments (20%),,field work and data analysis (30%),seminar work (50%).All the examination parts need to be positive.