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On completion of this course, the successful student should, inter alia, be able to:
- Have an appreciation of the major themes in the academic literature on the economics of the environment.
- Understand the economic approach to analysing why environmental problems occur.
- Explain the economic instruments available to address local and global environmental challenges.
- Understand the interlinkages between the rapidly emerging carbon and climate sectors and traditional environmental economic theory and policy.
- Have an understanding of the economic policy tools available to assess the costs and benefits of action(s) or lack of action(s) to address environmental problems.
- Have an awareness of the importance of behavioural economics and behavioural science for environmental policy making.
- Introduction to Environmental Economics.
- Economic Analysis of Why Environmental Problems Occur.
- Justification for Intervention in a Market Economy.
- Environmental Policy Design.
- Economic Approaches to Policy and Project Evaluation.
- Behavioural Economics and Environmental Policy Design.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 24 |
Specified Learning Activities | 16 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 160 |
Total | 200 |
Read an introductory environmental economics textbook and familiarise yourself with introductory microeconomics using a textbook and/or some online videos.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Multiple Choice Questionnaire: A Quiz in which students answer short multiple choice questions and write short answers to questions dealing with all aspects covered in the lectures. | Week 12 | n/a | Alternative linear conversion grade scale 40% | No | 25 |
Assignment: Students produce a concept to provide essential information for the design of an environmental economic policy relying on environmental economic tools. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 25 |
Assignment: Students produce a policy-brief suggesting a solution to an environmental problem of their choice. The policy-brief highlights key concepts from the environmental economics literature. | Varies over the Trimester | n/a | Graded | No | 50 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Online automated feedback
• Peer review activities
The pre-assignment feedback includes group feedback on the presentations you'll give (for the assignment worth 50%) and peer feedback in smaller groups (for the assignment worth 25%). The post-assessment feedback for the 2 essay assignments will come in the form of feedback sheets and the post-assessment feedback for the Quiz is just the points you'll get in the Quiz.
Name | Role |
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Dr Cara Augustenborg | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Finbarr Brereton | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Peter Clinch | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Yulu Guo | Tutor |