Environmental Economics (MSB350)

The contents relate to environmental and resource economics and may include topics such as:

1. Theory of environmental market failures

2. Valuing non-market environmental goods and services

3. Extraction and depletion of non-renewable natural resources

4. Management of renewable natural resources, among others.

Knowledge:

Upon completion of the course, students will have:

• A fundamental understanding of central environmental economics and natural resource economics concepts, theories, and models that form the basis of the course and the science of economics.
• An understanding of the complexity and scope of the determinants of economic behavior of microeconomic agents, their interactions, and their dependencies on natural resources and the environment.

Skills:

Upon completion of the course, students will:

• Have the ability to use different theories and models to analyze what drives economic agents in different situations as it relates to natural resources and environmental goods and services.
• Know how to read and comprehend published research in the field of environmental and resource economics.
• Be capable of implementing their own applied research in the field of environmental and resource economics.
• Be able to apply tools from the field of environmental and resource economics as a basis for evaluating and developing economic decision-making strategies in both the private and public sectors of the economy.

Ingen

Microeconomics and econometrics at the intermediate bachelor level or master level.

Presentation, Quizzes

Attendance is necessary in order to participate in some of the components in the assessment.

Fagperson(er)

Study Program Director:

Ingeborg Foldøy Solli

Course coordinator:

Dora Zsuzsanna Simon

Lectures are delivered in English and correspond to a workload of 8 weeks of lectures at 3.5 hours per week. The total workload of the course is 270 hours and comprises lectures, seminars, independent study, or assignments.

Admission to Single Courses at UiS Business School

Exchange programmes at UIS Business School

Students will have the opportunity to give feedback on the course first in an early dialogue, and then in a written course evaluation at the end of the course.

Book A course in environmental economics : theory, policy, and practice Phaneuf, Daniel James, Requate, Till, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2017, isbn:1107004179; 9781107004177; 052117869X; 9780521178693, https://bibsys-ur.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/view/uresolver/47BIBSYS_UBIS/openurl?ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2020-05-12T13%3A30%3A55IST&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com-gbv&req_id=&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=unknown&rft.atitle=A%20course%20in%20environmental%20economics%20theory,%20policy,%20and%20practice&rft.jtitle=&rft.btitle=&rft.aulast=Phaneuf&rft.auinit=&rft.auinit1=&rft.auinitm=&rft.ausuffix=&rft.au=Phaneuf,%20Daniel%20J&rft.aucorp=&rft.date=2017&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.part=&rft.quarter=&rft.ssn=&rft.spage=&rft.epage=&rft.pages=&rft.artnum=&rft.issn=&rft.eissn=&rft.isbn=9781107004177&rft.sici=&rft.coden=&rft_id=info:doi/10.1017/9780511843839&rft.object_id=&rft.eisbn=&rft.edition=&rft.pub=&rft.place=&rft.series=&rft.stitle=&rft.bici=&rft_id=info:bibcode/&rft_id=info:hdl/&rft_id=info:lccn/2016044938&rft_id=info:oclcnum/961797975&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_id=info:eric/((addata/eric}}&rft_dat=%3Cgbv%3E870011979%3C/gbv%3E,language=eng,view=UBIS&svc_dat=getit&user_ip=10.16.56.140&req.skin=primo&rft_pqid=&rft_galeid=&rft_cupid=&rft_eruid=&rft_nurid=&rft_ingid=View online Book Natural resource and environmental economics Perman, Roger,, Perman, Roger,, Harlow, Essex ; New York :; Harlow, Essex ; New York :, Pearson Addison Wesley, 2011, isbn:0273760378; 9780273760375, Also available as printed book: ISBN 9780321417534 https://bibsys-ur.userservices.exlibrisgroup.com/view/uresolver/47BIBSYS_UBIS/openurl?ctx_enc=info:ofi/enc:UTF-8&ctx_id=10_1&ctx_tim=2020-05-12T13%3A15%3A53IST&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&url_ctx_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rfr_id=info:sid/primo.exlibrisgroup.com-pq_ebook_central&req_id=&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:book&rft.genre=book&rft.atitle=&rft.jtitle=&rft.btitle=Natural%20Resource%20and%20Environmental%20Economics.&rft.aulast=Perman&rft.auinit=R&rft.auinit1=&rft.auinitm=&rft.ausuffix=&rft.au=Perman,%20Roger&rft.aucorp=&rft.date=2013&rft.volume=&rft.issue=&rft.part=&rft.quarter=&rft.ssn=&rft.spage=&rft.epage=&rft.pages=&rft.artnum=&rft.issn=&rft.eissn=&rft.isbn=9780273760375&rft.sici=&rft.coden=&rft_id=info:doi/&rft.object_id=&rft.eisbn=9780273760375&rft.edition=4th%20ed..&rft.pub=&rft.place=&rft.series=&rft.stitle=&rft.bici=&rft_id=info:bibcode/&rft_id=info:hdl/&rft_id=info:lccn/&rft_id=info:oclcnum/1027178957&rft_id=info:pmid/&rft_id=info:eric/((addata/eric}}&rft_dat=%3Cpq_ebook_central%3EEBC5248198%3C/pq_ebook_central%3E%3Curl%3E%3C/url%3E,language=eng,view=UBIS&svc_dat=viewit&user_ip=10.16.56.140&req.skin=primo&rft_pqid=EBC5248198&rft_galeid=&rft_cupid=&rft_eruid=&rft_nurid=&rft_ingid=View online Book Natural resource and environmental economics Roger Perman (forfatter), Perman, Roger, Harlow, Pearson, XXX, 712 s., 2011, isbn:9780321417534, Book Environmental economics & management : theory, policy, and applications Callan, Scott J., Thomas, Janet M., © 2013; Mason, Ohio, South-Western Cengage Learning, [2013], isbn:1-111-82667-6; 978-1-111-82667-3, Book Introductory econometrics : a modern approach Wooldridge, Jeffrey M., Boston, MA, Cengage Learning, XXII, 826 sider, [2020], isbn:9781337558860, Book An Introduction to statistical learning : with applications in R Gareth James (forfatter), James, Gareth, New York, Springer, cop. 2017, isbn:978-1-4614-7137-0, Article SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES Various authors,

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