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Learning Outcome:

Course Goal: Enable students to reflect critically on the economic dimension of environmental problems and their solutions. Understand the role of institutions in modifying incentives to solve environmental problems.

Learning outcomes (competences)

-          Understand the mutual interrelation between environmental problems and the economic activity.

-          Comprehend the specific nature of environmental problems: dynamics, uncertainty and information issues.

-          Defend and justify articulated arguments regarding environmental problems and policy alternatives.

-          Develop research reports on economic aspects of environmental problems.

Topic 1: Environmental Policy Instruments

Topic 2: Voluntary Agreements

Topic 3: Natural Resource Management: Renewable and Nonrenewable Resources

Topic 4: Valuation Methods

Class exercises: Students will work on written exercises in class, and will present/ discuss their results with their classmates.

Reading groups: Students will have a time slot to make a powerpoint presentation of a preassigned paper. Each presenter will have a preassigned discussant. Each presenter will summarize one of the readings, and each discussant will discuss the reflection questions for one reading. Specific instructions will be provided at the beginning of the course.

Class tasks and a short final essay