Note from June 29, 2020
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
Although we do not yet know how long the social distancing related to the Covid-19 pandemic will last, and regardless of the changes that had to be made in the evaluation of the June 2020 session in relation to what is provided for in this learning unit description, new learnig unit evaluation methods may still be adopted by the teachers; details of these methods have been - or will be - communicated to the students by the teachers, as soon as possible.
3 credits
30.0 h
Q1
Teacher(s)
Tack Jean-Pierre;
Language
French
Main themes
None
Aims
At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to : | |
| 1 | This course is designed for students in civil engineering (FSA) and management (Louvain School of Management, IAG). The basic concepts and tools of environmental economics are presented and much attention is devoted to the toolkits used in environmental management and their implications within the firm (taxes, tradable permits, voluntary agreements ). The methods used to assess the impacts of environmental policies on the firm are discussed. This course is given under the Chair Lhoist Berghmans in Environmental Economics and Management. In particular, it promotes an interdisciplinary approach and does pay attention to the interplay between individual and collective interests when facing environmental issues. |
The contribution of this Teaching Unit to the development and command of the skills and learning outcomes of the programme(s) can be accessed at the end of this sheet, in the section entitled “Programmes/courses offering this Teaching Unit”.
Content
Content
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
Other information
None
Faculty or entity
EPL
Programmes / formations proposant cette unité d'enseignement (UE)
Title of the programme
Sigle
Credits
Prerequisites
Aims
Master [120] in Mechanical Engineering
Master [120] in Biomedical Engineering
Master [120] in Mathematical Engineering
Master [120] in Computer Science and Engineering
Master [120] in Electrical Engineering
Master [120] in Computer Science
Master [120] in Civil Engineering
Master [120] in Chemical and Materials Engineering
Master [120] in Data Science Engineering
Master [120] in Ethics
Master [120] in Electro-mechanical Engineering
Master [120] in Philosophy
Master [120] in Data Science: Information Technology
Master [120] in Physical Engineering