Planeamento

Aulas

Introduction

1

Course presentation.

Links between the Economy and Nature.
Main environmental problems.

Introduction and basic concepts

2

Economic efficiency and markets.

Play or keep game: provision of an environmental good in a simulated market.
Market inefficiency in the presence of environmental goods.

Economics of Pollution

3

The optimum level of environmental quality.

Economics of Pollution

4

Workout 1 (Market failures and Economics of pollution).

Environmental decision support techniques

5

Environmental decision support techniques.

Cost-benefit analysis (CBA).

Environmental decision support techniques

6

Cost analysis:

- Cost concepts;
- Value concepts.

Environmental decision support techniques

7

Benefit analysis:

- Revealed preference methods;
- Stated preference methods.

Environmental decision support techniques

8

Workout 2 (Environmental valuation methods).

Instruments of Environmental Policy

9

Instruments of environmental policy: Introduction.

Institutional instruments of environmental policy.

Instruments of Environmental Policy

10

Command and control instruments of environmental policy.

Instruments of Environmental Policy

11

Market-based instruments of environmental policy:

- Charges;
- Subsidies.

Instruments of Environmental Policy

12

Market-based instruments of environmental policy:

- Tradable permits.

Instruments of Environmental Policy

13

Market-based instruments of environmental policy: the example of the EU ETS.


Feedback on groupwork assignments.

Workout 3 (Instruments of Environmental Policy).

Instruments of Environmental Policy

14

Workout 3 (cont.).

Natural Resource Economics

15

Origins of the sustainability problem.

Different concepts of sustainability.
Sustainability indicators.
Environmental Kuznets Curve.

International Environmental Agreements

16

International Environmental Agreements.

Natural Resource Economics

17

Efficiency in nonrenewable resource management.

The Hotelling rule for scarcity rent.

Natural Resource Economics

18

Workout 4 (Resource management: non-renewable resources).

Natural Resource Economics

19

Issues in renewable resource management:

- Maximum sustainable yield;
- Common-pool resources.
A bioeconomic model of a fishery.

Workout 4 (Resource management: renewable resources).

Natural Resource Economics

20

Renewable energy:

- Types of renewable energies and feed-in-tariffs.

Energy Efficiency

21

Energy efficiency issues:

- The importance of energy efficiency;
- The rebound effect.

Student presentations and discussions

22

Student presentations and discussions.

Student presentations and discussions

23

Student presentations and discussions.

Revisions

24

Revisions and clarification of doubts.

Aulas

Natural Resource Economics

1

Workout 4 (Resource management: non-renewable resources).