Markets and the Environment

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Spanish

General information

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Textbooks

• [K] Kolstad, Charles: Intermediate Environmental Economics. Oxford University Press.
  International 2nd Edition. 
• [T] Tietenberg, Tom: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Addison Wesley.
  NB any edition will do, chapter numbers below refer to the sixth edition.

Course Program

• Introduction
  [K] Ch. 1, 4, 5, 20.I 
• Topic I: Non-renewable resources
  [T] Ch. 7, 8 & 9.
• Topic II: Renewable resources
  [T] Ch. 12 &13
• Topic III: Policy instruments for correcting market failure
  [K] Ch. 11, 12, 13 &16
• Topic IV: Valuing the environment
• [K] Ch .8, 9 & 10
• Topic V: International aspects and multilateral environmental agreements
  [K] Cap. 19

Evaluation

Final exam: 50% 

Partial exams: 40% 

Problem sets: 10% 

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