Universidad Pública de Navarra - Nafarroako Univertsitate Publikoa
Public University of Navarre
| Course code: 176845 | Subject title: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS | ||||
| Credits: 6 | Type of subject: Optative | Year: | Period: 2º S | ||
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| OSES ERASO, NURIA [Mentoring ] | |||||
Contents
Chapter 1 – Environment and economy.
1.1. Environmental economics and natural resource economics.
1.2. Welfare economics and the environment. Externalities.
Chapter 2 – Environmental targets
2.1. Modelling pollution
2.2. Pollution damage
2.3. Abatement costs
2.4. The efficient level of pollution
Chapter 3 – Instruments of environmental policy
3.1. Criteria for the choice of pollution control instruments.
3.2. Institutional approaches.
3.3. Command and control instruments.
3.4. Economic incentives: taxes and subsidies.
3.5. Economic incentives: marketable emissions permits.
Chapter 4 – International environmental problems.
4.1. International environmental cooperation.
4.2. Game theory analysis.
4.3. International environmental agreements.
4.4. International trade and the environment.
Chapter 5 – Natural resources.
5.1. Renewable natural resources.
5.2. Non-renewable natural resources.
Descriptors
Economy-environment interdependence. Externalities. Pollution problems. Environmental targets. Environmental policy analysis. International environmental issues. Natural resources. Environmental valuation.
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.
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.
ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
CMAE6 Ability to identify, formulate and analyze environmental problems from an economic point of view.
CMAE7 Ability to analyze and evaluate the performance of different instruments of economic policy and possible state intervention in solving environmental problems.
DEVELOPMENT AND COOPERATION
CMDC4 Ability to analyze and evaluate the performance of different instruments of economic policy and possible state intervention in solving environmental problems.
Methodology
- Participative lectures: presentation of the most important theoretical aspects of each topic.
- Applied seminars: analysis of case studies; workgroups.
- Researching and writing about a selected topic.
- Tutorials: resolution of questions (theoretical and applied). Individual monitoring.
- Mi Aulario: providing materials to students and evaluation tests.
Agenda
Chapter 1 (2 weeks)
Chapter 2 (2 weeks)
Chapter 3 (5 weeks)
Chapter 4 (2 weeks)
Chapter 5 (4 weeks)
Bibliography
Access the bibliography that your professor has requested from the Library.
Field, B.C. y Field M.K. (2013): Environmental Economics: An Introduction, (6th edition), McGraw-Hill.
Kolstad C.D. (2010): Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press.
Perman, R.; Ma, Y. McGilvray, J.; Common, M. (2012): Natural Resource and Environmental Economics (4th edition), Pearson.