IIT Guwahati Economics

Hello sir I am here as I want to get the syllabus of the B.Tech Semester VIII Environmental Economics of IIT Guwahati so will you please provide me the syllabus??

[shikha]

Hey!!! As per your demand here I am providing you syllabus of the B.Tech Semester VIII Environmental Economics of IIT Guwahati

The economy and the environment:
economy-environment interaction,
the first and second law of thermodynamics,
environmental degradation as market failure,
Pigouvian tax,
property rights and transactions costs;

Economics of natural resources:
renewable and non-renewable resources,
common property resources,
open access,
the tragedy of commons;

Valuation methods:
classification of environment and resource flows,
use values,
option values and non-use value,
contingent valuation,
hedonic pricing,
travel cost method,
environmental impact assessment;

Pollution control:
pollution prevention,
control and abatement,
command and control instruments and market based instruments – taxes vs. tradeable permits,
overview of different acts/laws for pollution control in India ;

Environment and development:
environment-development trade off,
environmental Kuznet-s curve,
poverty and environment,
sustainable development- concepts and indicators,
environmentally adjusted GDP,
System of Integrated Environmental and Economic Accounting (SEEA).

Texts:

N. Hanley, J. F. Shogren and B. White, An Introduction to
Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press, 2001
C. Kolstad, Environmental Economics, Oxford University Press, 2000

References:

1.-U. Sankar (ed.), Environmental Economics (Readers in Economics), Oxford
University Press, 2001

2.-T. Tietenberg, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics,
Pearson Education, 2004


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