Teaching Spring Term 2011
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Economics of Sustainable Development |
| Number |
351-0576-00L |
| Semester |
FS 2011 |
| Lecturers |
L. Bretschger |
| Language |
English |
| Short description |
The course covers current resource and sustainability economics, including ethical foundations of sustainability, intertemporal optimisation in capital-resource economies, sustainable use of non-renewable and renewable resources, pollution dynamics, population growth, and sectoral heterogeneity. A final part is on empirical contributions, e.g. the resource curse, energy prices, and the EKC. |
| URL |
http://www.cer.ethz.ch/resec/teaching/index |
Details |
| Learning target |
Understanding of the current issues and economic methods in sustainability research; ability to solve typical problems like the calculation of the growth rate under environmental restriction with the help of appropriate model equations. |
