This course aims to provide participants with a sound knowledge and understanding of the fundamental of environmental economics, in relation to studies of the economic effects of international, national or local economic policies on the environment. It also offers participants an understanding of the application of the principles of economics to the study of how environmental and natural resources are developed and managed.
Course contents include:
- Understanding the environment;
- Introduction, meaning of environmental economics
- importance of environmental economics
- Natural Resource Economics
- Economics of natural resource use
- Economics of sustainable development
- Economics of Race, Agriculture, and the Environment
- Valuation of environmental resources
- Economics of Climate Change
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