- Introductory Issues
-
- Introduction: The emergence of environmental economics
- Fundamental Issues in the economic approach to environmental issues
- The drivers of environmental impact
- Poverty and inequality
- Limits to growth
- Concepts of Sustainability
- Main Issues in Environmental Economics
a. Environmental Pollution
b. Pollution Control
- Targets
- A static model of efficient pollution
- Intertemporal analysis of stock pollution
c. International Environmental Problems
- International Environmental cooperation: Game theory analysis
- International treaties
- Acid rain pollution, stratospheric ozone depletion, the greenhouse effect
- International trade and the environment
- Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment
- Valuing the Environment
- Dimensions of value
- The theory of environmental valuation
- Environmental valuation techniques: travel cost method, contingent valuation, and other techniques
- Natural Resource Exploitation
- The efficient and optimal use of natural resources: a simple model of resource depletion
- Importance of natural resource in the production
Course Features
- Lecture 0
- Quiz 0
- Duration 10 weeks
- Skill level All levels
- Language English
- Students 0
- Assessments Yes
