Title:

Economic Valuation of the Environment

Semester:

F

Responsible TRS member:

Skourtos Michalis

Instructor(s):

Not Offered

Teaching Assistants:

-

Learning Outcomes:

How to evaluate in economic terms environmental impacts

Topics per Week:

1. lecture: Welfare economics

2. lecture: Economic values

3. lecture: Methods of economic valuation

4. lecture: Revealed preference approaches Ι

5. lecture: Revealed preference approaches ΙΙ

6. lecture : Stated preference approaches Ι

7. lecture: Stated preference approaches ΙΙ

8. lecture:  Questionnaire techniques

9. lecture: Statistical analysis

10. lecture: Application in water sector

11. lecture: Appliacations in climate change

12. lecture: Appliacations in biodiversity

13. lecture: Suming up: Economic valuation of environmental impacts

Theory - Lectures
(hours / week):

3

Exercises - Laboratories
(hours / week):

-

Total (hours / week):

3

Number of ECTS Gredits:

5

Grading:

Written essay

Notes:

PowerPoint presentations

Basic Textbook:

Tietenberg, Thomas H. Οικονομική του περιβάλλοντος και των φυσικών πόρων Αθήνα, Gutenberg, 1998

Bibliography:

 

Pearce, D.W. and Turner, R.K. (1990) Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, Harvester Wheatsheaf, Hemel Hempstead,

Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J. (1996) Natural Resource and Environmental Economics, Longman.

Turner, R.K., Pearce, D.W. and Bateman, I.J. (1994)  Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction, Harvester Wheatsheaf

Language:

The course is taught in Greek. For exchange students, English literature is proposed and examinations are given in English.

Internet Links:

http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/studies2.htm

http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/economics/index.htm

http://www.ecosystemvaluation.org/

                                             

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