EV2003 - Introduction to Environmental Economics
| Credit points: | 03 |
| Year: | 2017 |
| Student Contribution Band: | Band 2 |
| Administered by: | College of Business, Law & Governance |
The natural environment in the development of economic theory; basic economic concepts relevant to environmental matters including cost-benefit analysis; environmental evaluation techniques and the pricing of resources; economic implications of changing environmental practice; the development of global economic interdependence and its implication for natural environments.
Learning Outcomes
- To develop background knowledge to understand the environmental and ecological economics literature;
- To enable graduates to meaningfully engage in discussions in disciplines relevant to environmental problems but which are outside the graduates' core discipline;
- To provide sufficient knowledge of environmental economics to better understand the economic and political debate on the environment.
| Prerequisites: | AT LEAST 12 CREDITS AT LEVEL 1 |
| Inadmissible Subject Combinations: | EC2010 EC5201 EV5003 |
Availabilities | |
| Townsville, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 24-Aug-2017 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Emma Gyuris. |
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| Assessment: | (75%); (25%). |
| Cairns, Internal, Study Period 2 | |
| Census Date 24-Aug-2017 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Peter Griggs. |
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| Assessment: | (75%); (25%). |
| JCU Singapore, Internal, Study Period 52 | |
| Census Date 10-Aug-2017 | |
| Coord/Lect: | Assoc. Professor Peter Griggs. |
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| Assessment: | (75%); (25%). |
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