CE50229: Environmental economics and politics
[Page last updated: 15 October 2020]
 Academic Year: | 2020/1 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Chemical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | EX 100% |
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| Description: | Aims: To: * Understand and apply traditional and advanced concepts and models of environmental economics and politics * Acknowledge economic, legislative and political steering tools for the protection of the environment and natural resources and to describe and differentiate their effects * Appreciate the importance of policy and multi-stakeholder negotiations to solve complex environmental, social and economic issues at local, national and global level. Learning Outcomes: On successful completion of this unit the student will be able to: * Understand, describe and use tools for steering environmental economics and environmental politics. * Distinguish different types of resources * Develop, explain and use economic models for economy - resource - pollution relationships * Put oneself in the position of representatives of environmental, economical and public various interest groups * Know major national and international policy approaches and steering mechanisms, including legislative implementation to control environmental pollution and resource use * Appreciate major past and future environmental and resource challenges for civilization and how humanity tackles with them both individually and cooperatively. Skills: * Appreciate and develop solutions for complex problems (T,F,A) * Apply economics and economic models to environmental and resource issues and within (political) processes of decision making (T,F,A) * Evaluate arguments within negotiations, discuss based on facts and find compromise solutions (T,F). Content: * Economy and environment / Economy-environment integration * Macroeconomics/microeconomics * Markets and the environment, market failure, incomplete markets, property rights, externalities, prisoners dilemma, co-ordination game * Economic incentives for environmental protection, allocation of renewable and non-renewable resources, * Economics of pollution control, air pollution, regional, mobile source and global air pollution, water pollution, pollution taxes, tradeable pollution permits, transboundary pollution problems * Environmental justice * International development, poverty and environment * Depletable non-recyclable energy resources, recyclable resources, replenishable but depletable resources, reproducible private-property resources, storable and renewable resources, renewable common-property resources * Theory of non-market valuation * Environmental policy, international, national, local (including current examples and challenges), policy negotiations * Environmentalism, environmental sociology, environmental stakeholders, lobbying. |
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CE50229 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Chemical Engineering
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