Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 172832 | Subject title: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: 4 | Period: 2º S | ||
| Department: Economía | |||||
| Lecturers: | |||||
| OSES ERASO, NURIA (Resp) [Mentoring ] | |||||
Module/Subject matter
Environmental Economics. (Major in Economic Analysis and Major in Development and Cooperation).
Contents
Chapter 1 - The economy and the environment.
1.1. Economy-environment interdependence.
1.2. Markets, externalities and efficiency.
Chapter 2 - Pollution control. Targets.
2.1. Pollution problems.
2.2. Pollution damage.
2.3. Abatement costs.
2.4. Socially efficient level of emissions.
Chapter 3 - Pollution control. Instruments.
3.1. Criteria for evaluating environmental policy.
3.2. Decentralized policies.
3.3. Command and control policies: standards
3.4. Incentive-based policies: taxes and subsidies.
3.5. Incentive-based policies: marketable emissions permits.
Chapter 4 - International environmental problems.
4.1. The global environment
4.2. Depletion of the ozone layer.
4.3. Climate change.
4.4. Other global problems.
Chapter 5 - Environmental valuation.
5.1. Benefit-cost analysis.
5.2. Revealed preference methods.
5.3. Stated preference methods.
General proficiencies
CG01 Analytical capacity.
CG04 Writing and speaking in English.
CG07 Solving problems skills.
CG17 Autonomous learning.
CG23 Sensibility towards social and environmental problems.
Specific proficiencies
CE01 Understand economic institutions as the result of theoretical or formal representations of modern economies.
CE02. Identifying the relevant sources of economic information and their content
CE04 Use scientific tools and professional criteria to analyse economic problems.
CE08 Identify and anticipate relevant economic issues relating to the allocation of resources.
CE10 Evaluate the implications of alternative economic policies and select those that better achieve the policy targets.
Learning outcomes
R_MAE_06. Identify and analyze environmental problems from an economic perspective.
R_MAE_07. Analyze and evaluate different environmental policies to face the main environmental problems.
R_MDC_03. Identify and analyze environmental problems from an economic perspective.
R_MDC_04. Analyze and evaluate different environmental policies to face the main environmental problems.
Methodology
| Methodology - Activity | Attendance | Self-study |
| A-1 Exposition/Participative Classes | 44 | |
| A-2 Practical classes | 14 | |
| A-3 Cooperative learning activities | 10 | |
| A-4 Group projects | 20 | |
| A-5 Individual practice and study time | 58 | |
| A-6 Tutorials | 02 | |
| A-7 Exams and evaluation activities | 02 | |
| Total | 60 | 90 |
Evaluation
| Learning outcome | Evaluation | Weight (%) | Retake |
| All | Class activities | 10% | No |
| All | Individual work: Assignments per chapter | 40% | Yes |
| All | Team work: Research and analysis of environmental and economic information | 20% | No |
| All | Final exam | 30% | Yes |
Agenda
Unit #1 (approx. 2 weeks)
Unit #2 (approx. 2 weeks)
Unit #3 (approx. 6 weeks)
Unit #4 (approx. 3 weeks)
Unit #5 (approx. 2 weeks)
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Basic bibliography
Field, B.C. y Field M.K. (2013): Environmental Economics: An Introduction, (6th edition), McGraw-Hill.
Complementary bibliography
Perman, R.; Ma, Y. McGilvray, J.; Common, M. (2012): Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (4th edition), Pearson.