Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Education facts

Code: NEAD32

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.

Entry requirements

Economics 90 ECTS Credits, with at least 30 ECTS credits at the G2F level, or equivalent.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

  Karlstad University

  Karlstad

  Start date: 29 March 2027

  End date: 2 May 2027

  Pace of study: 100 %