Learning Outcomes:
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
- Have an understanding of the major environmental and natural resources issues and the key literature on the economics of the environment.
- Understand the key environmental economics approaches and frameworks to analysing why environmental and natural resources issues.
- Illustrate the economic strategies and instruments available to address local and global environmental challenges.
- Understand the interlinkages between the consumption patterns, transport systems, urbanisation and environmental economics theory and policy
Indicative Module Content:
Environmental problems and impacts related to transportation and planning issues. Consumption patterns and resulting problems including transport, congestion, pollution and climate change
- Introduction to Environmental Economics
- Resources, Environment, and Economic Development
- Economic Analysis of why Environmental and natural resources problems occur.
- Environmental Policy Design.
- Economic Approaches to Policy and Project Evaluation.