Madeline Turland

AREC 565 - Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services

Economic valuation of ecosystem goods and services. Topics include: Theoretical and empirical analysis of environmental valuation methods, advanced benefit cost analysis, welfare economics, valuation of ecosystem goods and services, valuation of health impacts from environmental quality change, and linkages to experimental and behavioural economics. Prerequisite: 3 units in Introductory Econometrics course and consent of instructor; AREC 502 recommended. [Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology]

ENCS 250 - Climate Change Economics and Policy

This course examines the economics and policy of climate change. Topics include an introduction to climate science; assessing the economic consequences of climate change (Integrated Assessment Models and the Social Cost of Carbon); evaluation of alternative policy instruments, to address both adaptation to and mitigation of the impacts of climate change, within an economic framework (taxes, subsidies, trading systems, investments in innovation, etc.); examination of the distributional impacts of economic policies; and, the treatment of uncertainty in climate change policy. The course will include examples and applications to agriculture, forestry, energy, and other sectors. Prerequisites: ECON 101 or 30 units.

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