General information

Semester	WS 2021/22
Current number of participants	56
Home institute	Wirtschaftsinformatik, insb. Finanz- & Informationsmanagement
Courses type	Lecture in category Teaching
Performance record	Klausur (Written Exam)
Online/Digitale Veranstaltung	Veranstaltung wird online/digital abgehalten.
Hauptunterrichtssprache	englisch
Literaturhinweise	Tietenberg/Lewis (2014): Environmental & Natural Resource Economics, 10th edition, Pearson.

Lecturers

Course location / Course dates

unspecified

Fields of study

Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlich-Technische Fakultät > Institut für Materials Resource Management

Module assignments

Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen Bachelor Wirtschaftsingenieurwesen, 13. > Modulgruppe G: Materials Resource Management > MRM-0006 - Environmental Economics > Environmental Economics

Comment/Description

At the end of the lecture the students are able to understand and apply the economic methods used by environmental economists. In detail, the lecture deals with fundamental economic topics like property rights, externalities, the benefit-cost analysis and other decision-making metrics as well as methods for valuing the environment.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Economic Approach: Property Rights, Externalities, and Environmental Problems
Chapter 2: Evaluating Trade-Offs: Benefit–Cost Analysis and Other Decision-Making Metrics
Chapter 3: Valuing the Environment: Methods
Chapter 4: Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainable Development
Chapter 5: Depletable Resource Allocation: The Role of Longer Time Horizons, Substitutes, and Extraction Cost