Provides an overview of environmental economics, covering course structure, key concepts, and the relationship between economic activity and environmental issues.
Delves into growth with finite resources, discussing the Club of Rome's report, resource management through prices, and challenges of resource depletion.
Explores wealth-based assessment for testing sustainability, wealth accounting, natural capital use, convergence in wealth, ANS calculation, and project topics.
Delves into efficiency, decoupling, and environmental impact assessment, highlighting the complexities of balancing economic growth and environmental sustainability.
Explores decoupling economic growth from environmental impacts through the Environmental Kuznets Curve, discussing empirical evidence, limitations, and alternative indicators.
Addresses the need for significant CO2 intensity reduction to achieve climate targets while examining the interplay between economic growth and carbon emissions.
Explores the transition from IPAT to sustainability, focusing on ecosystem services, biosphere integrity, Impact Inequality, SDGs, Doughnut economy, and GDP growth.
Delves into the historical growth of population and economic activities through increased extraction of resources, discussing the transition to a sustainable economy and the possibility of economic growth.
