Environmental and Resource Economics

Description

1: Introduction: Overview of economics, sources of market failures, externalities 2: Tragedy of the commons, public goods, property rights 3: Environmental policy instruments, payments for environmental services, precautionary principle 4: Economics of pollution 5: Cost-benefit analysis, discounting, total economic value, valuing non-market goods 6: Green national accounts, green GDP, genuine progress indicator, human development index, why different measures give different outcomes 7: Causes and consequences of climate change, economics of climate change, adaptation and mitigation policy options, environment and equity 8: Green economy, economy and environment, industrial ecology, global food supply, agriculture and environment 9: The market for carbon capture and storage (CCS) from a consumer perspective 10: Non-renewable resources, scarcity and abundance: Economics, supply and consumption of non-renewable resources, mining and environment 11: Economics of renewable resources: Environment, economy and renewable resources, ecological and economic analysis of fisheries 12: Renewable energy economics, citizen preferences and acceptance