资源环境经济学_Environment and Natural Resource Economics Course

Tuesday, Sept. 5
Lecture 3:
Course Overview
Environmental cost – benefit - analysis under risk, and uncertainty
Background literature: Chapter 11: Cost benefit analysis Chapter 13: Irreversibility, risk, and uncertainty Hardaker, J.B., Huirne, R.B.M. and Anderson, J.R. (1997). Coping with Risk in Agriculture. Selected Chapters. Wallingford: CAB International. Lecture 4: Environmental cost – benefit- analysis under irreversibility, uncertainty, and flexibility
Course Overview
I. First week, September 4 to September 8 (Lecturer: Justus Wesseler)
Monday, Sept. 4
Overview of the course and introduction in environmental and natural resource economics. Background literature: The main text boob for teaching the first part of the course is Perman Ma McGilvray Commons (2003) Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. 3rd ed. FT Prentice Hall, UK. Chapter 1: Introduction to natural resource and environmental economics Bromley, Daniel (2004): Reconsidering Environmental Policy: Prescriptive Consequentialism and Volitional Pragmatism. Environmental and Resource Economics, 28: 73-99. Lecture 2: Cost-benefit-analysis Background literature: Chapter 11: Cost benefit analysis Tutorial 1: Answering review questions and working out effects of discounting on NPV using EXCEL Presenting and discussing review questions Case studies: Tassone, Valentina, Justus Wesseler, and Francesco S. Nesci (2004): Diverging incentives for afforestation from carbon sequestration – an economic analysis of the EU afforestation programme in the south of Italy. Forest Policy and Economics 6(6):567-578. Chen, Meichi, Arjan Ruijs, Justus Wesseler (2005): Solid waste management on small islands: the case of Green Island, Taiwan. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 45(1):31-47. Lecture 1:
Environment and Natural Resource Economics Course
Nanjing Agriculture University September 4 to September 30, 2006
Lecturers: Volker Beckmann, Humboldt University Max Spoor, ISS, The Hague Justus Wesseler, Wageningen University
Course Overview
Thursday, Sept. 7
Lecture 7: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources Background literature: Chapter 15: The theory of optimal resource extraction: non-renewable resources Houthakker, Hendrik S. (2002): Are minerals exhaustible? Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance 42: 417-421. Lecture 8: The theory of optimal resource extraction: renewable resources
Background literature: Chapter 13: Irreversibility, risk, and uncertainty Krutilla, J.V. and Anthony C. Fisher (1975): The Economics of Natural Environments. Selected chapters. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Fisher, Anthony (2003): Irreversibilities and catastrophic risks in climate change. In Justus Wesseler, Hans-Peter Weikard and Robert D. Weaver (eds.) Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. Fisher, Anthony (2000): Investment under Uncertainty and Option Value in Environmental Economics. Resource and Energy Economics 22:197-204. Demont, Matty, Justus Wesseler, Erik Tollens (2004): Irreversible Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops: What Are They? In Justus Wesseler (ed.) Environmental Costs and Benefits of Transgenic Crops. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers. Dixit, Avinash and Robert S. Pindyck (1994): Investment under Uncertainty, Chapter 2. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Tutorial 2: Answering review questions and working out effects of discounting on NPV using EXCEL Presenting and discussing review questions. Case studies: Demont, Matty, Justus Wesseler, Erik Tollens (2004): Biodiversity versus transgenic sugar beets – the one Euro question. European Review of Agricultural Economics 31(1):1-18.
Course Overview
Schedule: Environment and Natural Resource Economics Nanjing, September 4 to September 30
Lecturers: - Justus Wesseler, Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group, Social Sciences Department, Wageningen University, e-mail: justus.wesseler@wur.nl; - Volker Beckmann, Department of Agricultural Economics and Social Sciences, Faculty of Agrciculture and Horticulture, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. e-mail: v.beckmann@agrar.hu-berlin.de. - Max Spoor, Staff: Rural Development, Environment and Population Studies, International Institute for Social Studies, The Hague e-mail: spoor@iss.nl;
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Wednesday, Sept. 6
Lecture 5: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources Background literature: Chapter 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources Chapter 16: Stock pollution problems Lecture 6: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources: Optimal Control Background literature: Chapter 14: The efficient and optimal use of natural resources Chapter 16: Stock pollution problems Chiang, Alpha (1992): Elements of Dynamic Optimization. Selected Chapters. New York: McGraw-Hill. Tutorial 3: Answering review questions and working out exercises on the Hamiltonian. Presenting and discussing review questions, discussing exercises
Background literature: Chapter 17: Renewable resources Chapter 18: Forest Resources Tutorial 4: Answering review questions and working out effects of discounting on NPV using EXCEL Presenting and discussing review questions. Case studies: Rahim, Afaf, Ekko van Ierland, Justus Wesseler: Economic Incentives for Entry and Exit in Gum Arabic Agroforestry System in Sudan. Mimeo. Wageningen University. Mithöfer, Dagmar, Hermann Waibel, Justus Wesseler: R&D and private investment: How to conserve indigenous fruit biodiversity of Southern Africa.