THE SCOTTISH UNIVERSITIES

DEPARTMENTS OF ECONOMICS

ENVIRONMENT, ENERGY AND RESOURCES: CLASS NOTES

http://homepages.strath.ac.uk/~hbs96107/EERclassnotes.htm

  Perman et al textbook website (Textbook pictures available here)

Class Syllabus

Session 1 Wed 23 Feb

12.00 - 15.00

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: Efficiency, Optimality and Sustainability (Roger Perman)

  1. Introduction to environmental economics (PowerPoint)
  2. Sustainability (PowerPoint)
  3. Text of Chapter 2 from Perman et al
  4. Text of Chapter 4 from Perman et al

Session 2 Monday 28 February

12.00 - 15.00

Renewable and non-renewable resources (Roger Perman)

  1. Non-renewable resources Lecture notes    Appendices on optimal control
  2. Renewable resources  Lecture notes
  3. Additional materials:  Comparative statics    Fishery Dynamics  Explanatory document     Text of Chapter 17 (3rd ed): Renewable Resources   Perman et al website

Session 3 Wednesday 2 March

12.00- 15.00 

Environmental pollution: targets and instruments (Nick Hanley)

  1. Lecture notes

Session 4 Wednesday 9 March

12.00 - 15.00 

Pollution policy and resource use: efficient and optimal environmental taxes (Roger Perman)

  1. Lecture notes
  2. Text of Chapter 16 from Perman et al

Session 5 Wednesday 16 March

12.00 - 15.00 

Valuation, Environmental CBA and Environmental Accounting (Nick Hanley)

  1. Lecture notes