ØASØK4200 Environmental Economics Emneplan

The most important teaching and learning methods for this course are workshops, lectures, group work, studio courses and tutoring.

ØASØK4100 Microeconomics

The following required coursework must be approved before the student can take the exam:

• One note of reflection. Maximum 1000 words.

After completing the course, the student should have the following overall learning outcomes defined in terms of knowledge, skills and general competence:

Knowledge

Students will gain insight into

• the fundamental ideas of the environment as provider of economic goods and services, and of pollution as being the unintended byproduct of economic actions
• a range of important environmental problems caused by economic activity, and their economic characteristics
• different economic types of regulation addressing pollution
• the importance of context in economic analysis of the environment
• different methods to investigate the impact of pollution and regulations

Skills

The students will learn how to

• use economic analysis and modeling to assess pollution
• use economic analysis to assess environmental regulation
• understand empirical evidence regarding environmental problems and potential solutions
• critically assess economic analyses directed at environmental problems

General competence

The student is more able to

• use English as the professional language in Economics
• use environmental economics insights in a professional setting, for example for cost-benefit analysis or concerning sustainability issues

Lectures with active student participation.

No restrictions.

Grade scale A-F.

Two internal. External examiner is used periodically.

• Emotional factors in design/psychological mechanisms in design
• Experimentation and fieldwork
• Service experience
• User behavior
• Task analysis
• Human to human, human to product interaction
• Mastery, resilience, motivation
• Different forms of user engagement

The exam papers are assessed by one internal and one external examiner.

At least 25% of the exam papers will be assessed by two examiners. The grades awarded for the papers assessed by two examiners form the basis for determining the level for all the exam papers.

Svenn Jensen