Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Utbildningsfakta

Kod: NEGC32

The course covers the following: \- Market failures and various economic concepts of efficiency \- Public sector tools for addressing market failures such as negative externalities in the form of environmental problems \- Cost-benefit analysis and the significance of the discount rate for monetary valuation \- The energy sector \- Global issues such as sustainable development, climate change, energy, demography, poverty, and economic growth \- Biodiversity and monetary valuation of life, health, environment, and natural resources \- Valuation of renewable and non-renewable resources \- Moral philosophy and ethics applied to environmental issues and sustainable development The course concludes with students presenting, in writing and in seminar form as a group, an economic analysis of an environmental and/or sustainability-related development problem.

Behörighet

Economics 52.5 ECTS credits, or equivalent.

Utbildningstillfällen

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• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Startdatum: 29 mars 2027

  Slutdatum: 2 maj 2027

  Studietakt: 100 %