Environmental Economics
Objectives
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General characterization
Code
10369
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
Rui Jorge Fernandes Ferreira Santos
Hours
Weekly - 5
Total - 80
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
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Bibliography
European Commission, 2014. Guide to Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Projects -Economic appraisal tool for Cohesion Policy 2014-2020, December 2014.
Field, B.C., Field, M.K., 2016. Environmental Economics: an Introduction, 7th edition, McGraw-Hill International Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York.
Tietenberg, T., Lewis, L., 2020. Natural Resource Economics: The Essentials. International Student Edition, Routledge.(paperback: ISBN 978-0-367-28034-5)
Tietenberg, T., Lewis, L., 2018. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. International Student Edition, 11thedition, Routledge. (https://www.routledge.com/Environmental-and-Natural-Resource-Economics-11th-Edition/Tietenberg-Lewis/p/book/9781138632301)
Varian, H., 2014. Intermediate Microeconomics – A Modern Approach, 9th edition, W. W. Norton & Company, New York. ISBN 978-0393919677.
Teaching method
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Evaluation method
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Subject matter
1. The economy and the environment
2. Economic and financial analysis of projects
3. Introduction to microeconomics: fundamentals and concepts
4. Market failures: economic causes of environmental problems and the need for an environmental policy
5. The economic approach in environmental policy/pollution control
6. Environmental policy instruments
- Criteria for the selection and evaluation of the performance of instruments
- Instrument typologies
- Form of action, advantages and disadvantages of the instruments
- Case studies