ECN275 Natural Resource and Environmental Economics - Theory

Lectures and exercises. It is recommended that students form self organized groups, for exampe 3-4 persons, and work together on the theoretial materials and exercises. Working on exercises and active participation is important for meeting the learning objectives. This also contributes to giving students exeperience in relating to and discuss results from economic analyses in a scientific manner.

For each sub-topic in the course, there are thematic discussion questions and exercises that provide the students with training in model formulation, and characterisation of the problems that are analyzed.

Separate exercise sessions with course responsible

18-20 double lectures with in-class discussions. Separate exercises to most lectures.

6 double exercise- and discussion sessions.

In class discussions on prepared topics, and thematic exerecises provide students with opportunities to apply theory and methods. The course pages provide additional information and access to extra learning resources.

Active participation in class hours, exercises and group work are important to enable students to apply theories and methods that have been presented in class/are in the readings for each class hour for improved analytical capabilities on concrete policy issues.

The course is in English. Incoming students can contact student advisors at the School of Economics and Business (studieveileder-hh@nmbu.no) for admission to the course.

Studenter som har ECN275 eller tilsvarende fra før anbefales å ta ECN376, som innebærer å skrive semesteroppgave om et tema som er innenfor pensum av ECN275.