Ecological Economics

Winter Semester 2026/27

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📍 Lecture

Wednesdays 08:30–12:00 (we start 8:30 sharp)

Please make sure to check out the most recent version of the seminar timetable. The most recent version can be found here.

📂 Material

The seminar description holds the full schedule; every topic there links to its session page with the slides and the reading list.

Course material, including a reading list, will be distributed through Moodle, and announcements will also be made there. Therefore, please make sure to sign up for the Moodle room (room 17919) as soon as possible:

Moodle Room: room 17919
Passwort will be distributed during the first lecture

Mandatory readings are available for download via the Moodle course.

💌 Contact and discussion

For asking questions and starting discussions, please use the forum in Moodle.

🔎 Some hints on finding data

For the country-analysis poster you will need data on your selected country or region. A few pointers:

Students are provided with Python snippets for the environmentally-augmented input-output table EXIOBASE3; you can use other data sources but need to analyze them on your own.
EXIOBASE contains data for the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands.
You can substitute some aspect of the country analysis after consulting the examiners (e.g., substituting the carbon-leakage analysis, if no data is available for this country, by a political analysis of external pressures).

Source	Description	Link
Atlas of Economic Complexity	Data on exports and specialization patterns.	https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/
EXIOBASE 3	A global input-output table that is available over time and quantifies a wide variety of ecological stressors. Can be used to compute both production- and consumption-based statistics.	https://zenodo.org/record/3583071
Good life and planetary boundaries	Data on how well countries meet social needs of their population while respecting ecological boundaries.	https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/
IMF Data	Common macroeconomic data, focus on financial and international flow data.	https://www.imf.org/en/Data
Material Flow Database	Data on global material flows.	http://www.materialflows.net/
Our World in Data	Wide variety of data, usually collected from other sources and accompanied by blog posts.	https://ourworldindata.org/
The Global Carbon Project	Data on emissions and environmental stressors.	https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/
World Bank Open Data	Collection of common macroeconomic and development indicators.	https://data.worldbank.org/
Sustainable Development Goals	Country profiles of SDGs.	https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/map
Global Atlas of Environmental Justice	Overview of environmental struggles and conflicts.	https://ejatlas.org/

--- title: "Ecological Economics" subtitle: "Winter Semester 2026/27" format: html --- # 📍 Lecture - Wednesdays 08:30–12:00 (we start 8:30 sharp) Please make sure to check out the most recent version of the seminar timetable. The most recent version can be found [here](material/SeminarDescription.qmd). # 📂 Material The [seminar description](material/SeminarDescription.qmd) holds the full schedule; every topic there links to its session page with the slides and the reading list. Course material, including a reading list, will be distributed through Moodle, and announcements will also be made there. Therefore, please make sure to sign up for the Moodle room (room 17919) as soon as possible: - **Moodle Room:** [room 17919](https://elearning.uni-flensburg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=17919) - Passwort will be distributed during the first lecture Mandatory readings are available for download via the Moodle course. # 💌 Contact and discussion For asking questions and starting discussions, please use the forum in [Moodle](https://elearning.uni-flensburg.de/moodle/course/view.php?id=17919). # 🔎 Some hints on finding data For the [country-analysis poster](material/examination.qmd) you will need data on your selected country or region. A few pointers: - Students are provided with Python snippets for the environmentally-augmented input-output table **EXIOBASE3**; you can use other data sources but need to analyze them on your own. - EXIOBASE contains data for the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Kingdom, United States, and the Wallis and Futuna Islands. - You can substitute some aspect of the country analysis after consulting the examiners (e.g., substituting the carbon-leakage analysis, if no data is available for this country, by a political analysis of external pressures). | Source | Description | Link | |:-------|:------------|:-----| | Atlas of Economic Complexity | Data on exports and specialization patterns. | <https://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/> | | EXIOBASE 3 | A global input-output table that is available over time and quantifies a wide variety of ecological stressors. Can be used to compute both production- and consumption-based statistics. | <https://zenodo.org/record/3583071> | | Good life and planetary boundaries | Data on how well countries meet social needs of their population while respecting ecological boundaries. | <https://goodlife.leeds.ac.uk/> | | IMF Data | Common macroeconomic data, focus on financial and international flow data. | <https://www.imf.org/en/Data> | | Material Flow Database | Data on global material flows. | <http://www.materialflows.net/> | | Our World in Data | Wide variety of data, usually collected from other sources and accompanied by blog posts. | <https://ourworldindata.org/> | | The Global Carbon Project | Data on emissions and environmental stressors. | <https://www.globalcarbonproject.org/> | | World Bank Open Data | Collection of common macroeconomic and development indicators. | <https://data.worldbank.org/> | | Sustainable Development Goals | Country profiles of SDGs. | <https://dashboards.sdgindex.org/map> | | Global Atlas of Environmental Justice | Overview of environmental struggles and conflicts. | <https://ejatlas.org/> |