Dr Charles Palmer STC3.03

This course is available on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Development, BSc in Environmental Policy with Economics and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.

Applied Environmental Economics (GY222) and/or Intermediate Microeconomics (EC201)

This course explores the complex relationships between economic development, poverty and the environment. It covers a range of important natural resource and environmental issues in developing countries, and provides students with the necessary tools to critically evaluate how these issues have been addressed by different stakeholders and at different levels of governance. Using concepts and analytical tools grounded in applied economics, primarily environmental and development economics, the course will examine a range of topics, including: the poverty-environment trap; property rights and governance; the food-energy-water nexus; biofuels; and urbanization.

10 hours of lectures and 9 hours of classes in the LT.

Students on this course will have a reading week in Week 6.

Students will be expected to produce a ‘mock exam’ essay during the Lent Term.

Barbier, E (2005) Natural Resources and Economic Development, Cambridge University Press.

Lopez, R., and M. Toman (2006) Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability. Columbia University Press.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period.