EV5003 - Environmental Economics
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Marine & Environmental Sciences |
The natural environment in the development of economic theory; basic economic concepts relevant to environmental matters including cost-benefit analysis; environmental evaluation techniques and pricing of resources; economic implications of changing environmental practice; the development of global economic interdependence and it's implication for natural environments.
Learning Outcomes
- to develop background knowledge to understand the environmental and ecological economics literature;
- to provide sufficient knowledge of environmental economics to better understand the economic and political debate on the environment;
- to enable graduate to meaningfully engage in discussions in disciplines relevant to environmental problems but which are outside the graduates' core discipline.
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EC2010 EC5201 EV2003 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 27-Aug-2015 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Emma Gyuris. |
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| Assessment: | (60%); (40%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 27-Aug-2015 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Dr Peter Griggs. |
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| Assessment: | (60%); (40%). |
Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.