| CODE | ECN2141 | ||||||||||||||||
| TITLE | Economics of Environmental Policy | ||||||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 4 | ||||||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Economics | ||||||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit consists of two components. The first component is theoretical and provides an overview of the concepts of environmental and ecological economics including the economy-environment interaction, economically optimal pollution control, economic instruments for pollution control and economic impacts of other policy instruments, economic evaluation of environmental assets, sustainability, cost-benefit analysis. The second component introduces students to modern environmental issues and policy solutions in the field of renewable and non-renewable resources, pollution, global climate change, biodiversity, waste and case studies in policy solutions. Study-unit Aims This aim of this study-unit is to encourage students to develop an ability to objectively and critically analyze environment-economy inter-linkages in theory and in practice. Learning Outcomes 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to understand how individual behaviour, market forces and government policies combine to affect the environment. By following this study-unit, students will become aware of some of the most important contemporary national and global environmental issues and their drivers as well as the implications of various types of policy responses thereto. The study-unit will also give students the necessary background to understand the economic and political debate on the environment, to access environmental economics literature and to eventually consider undertaking their own research in this very topical field. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - analyze problems and policies relevant to major environmental issues; - critically evaluate public policies and activities that affect the environment; - meaningfully engage in discussions in disciplines relevant to environmental problems. Students following this study-unit will be encouraged to reason, to question and to analyse information, to integrate and synthesise knowledge from a range of sources and environments, to critique the constraints, assumption and limitations of scholarly activity and to think independently, and systematically. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings Any of these introductory texts will be useful: Tietenberg T 2007, Environmental Economics and Policy, Pearson Addison-Wesley. Field And Field, 2008, Environmental Economics, Mcgraw-Hill/Irwin; 5 Edition. Turner, Pearce and Bateman, Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction (1994). Pearce And Turner, Economics Of Natural Resources And The Environment, Harvester Wheatsheaf, London 1990. N Hanley, J F Shogren and B White, Introduction to Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press, 2001. M Common, S Stagl, Ecological Economics. An Introduction, Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pearce, Markandya and Barbier, Blueprint for a Green Economy (1989). Supplementary readings and materials will be made available by the lecturer. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture, Fieldwork and Seminar | ||||||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Glenn Abela Marie Briguglio |
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