ECO4052S
- Environmental Economics
Course Information
The course deals with a variety of real world problems like control of
pollution, management of mines, forests and fisheries, funding biodiversity and
putting the environment into project and policy decision-making. The emphasis is
on practical application of economic tools.
Structure of the course
The course will consist of a mixture of lectures, readings, seminars and
practical/problem
solving sessions. There will be group projects for 3-4 people which will be very
practically
based, but should be written as a short paper, with a basic literature review
that draws on the
topics covered in the class.
Teaching
There will be a lecture on Tuesdays (11h00-12h45) (and we reserve the right
to use Fridays
09h00-10h45 for seminars. Two such seminars are shown below.
Course Assessment
There will be a three-hour exam at the end of the course. You will also be
required to write a
term paper making use of the tools learnt in the course and make a short
presentation of your
paper at the end of the course. Specific suggestions of topics and guidelines of
expected
structure will be provided on the course page by 1 August 2008.
The mark breakdown is as follows:
- Exam: 55%
- Group Projects: 20%
- Term Paper: 25%
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