Environment and Enterprise
[FSA2245]
[30h] 3 credits
This course is taught in the 1st semester.
Teacher(s): Thierry Bréchet
Language: French
Level: Second
Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Module 1 General introduction
Sect. 1 Objectives and structure of the course
Sect. 2 A typology of environmental issues
Sect. 3 The economic approach of the environment
Sect. 4 Environment and sustainable development
Sect. 5 Basics in microeconomic analysis
Module 2 Theory of the environment
Sect. 1 Welfare economics, basics
Sect. 2 Externalities and pollution
Sect. 3 Pareto optimality and externalities
Sect. 4 Optimal pollution
Module 3 Methods to evaluate environmental assets
Sect. 1 Theoretical background
Sect. 2 Method of travel expenditures
Sect. 3 Method of hedonic prices
Sect. 4 Method of contingent evaluation
Module 4 Instruments for environmental policy
Sect. 1 Institutional and market failures
Sect. 2 A typology of instruments
Sect. 3 Comparison of instruments
Module 5 Tools, methods and model for policy assessment
Sect. 1 A typology of tools, methods and models
Sect. 2 Life cycle analysis
Sect. 3 Macroeconomic models
Sect. 4 Indicators of environmental performance
Sect. 5 Cost-benefit analysis
Sect. 6 The ExternE project
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