| 28th September 2016 04:48 PM | |
| shikha | Re: IIT Guwahati Economics 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 Contact Details: Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati Near Doul Gobinda Road, Amingaon, North Guwahati, Guwahati, Assam 781039 Phone: 0361 258 3000 |
| 28th September 2016 03:34 PM | |
| Unregistered | 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?? |
