This course aims to help students understand the issues on environmental policies and business, policy, through lectures and a real-world project and equip them with rigorous economics methods to analyze both domestic and international environmental issues as well as resource management issues. This course emphasizes the importance of market-based approach to environmental regulations and covers growing body of empirical evidence from the field. Topics covered include welfare economic foundations, environmental policy instruments, environmental valuation, environment and development, nonrenewable and renewable resource management, green finance, environmental accounting, and environmental business.
The students in this course should be able to understand basic theories, concepts and principles, and empirical findings from environmental economics and related fields, and apply the insights from them to the analysis of business and policy issues through the project.