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.

The bachelor's thesis is the culmination of the program. The students develop, enhance, and demonstrate their methodological abilities to independently tackle and solve a given research problem. The thesis furnishes the students with their first major research experience, and is a further development of the work done in the basis courses and the focused study.

This course introduces the fundamentals of carbon capture, utilization, and storage and related interdependencies between technosphere, ecosphere, and sociosphere. Topics covered: origin, production, processing, and economics of carbon-based resources; climate change in science & policies; CC(U)S systems; CO2 transport & storage; life-cycle assessment; net-zero emissions; CO2 removal options.

Discovering Management offers an introduction to the field of business management and entrepreneurship for engineers and natural scientists. By taking this course, students will enhance their understanding of management principles and the tasks that entrepreneurs and managers deal with. The course consists of theory and practice sessions, presented by a set of area specialists at D-MTEC.

Concepts and indicators of sustainable development, paradigms of weak and strong sustainability;neoclassical and endogenous growth models;pollution, environmental policy and growth;role of substitution possibilities and technological progress;Environmental Kuznets Curve: concept, theory and empirical results;economic growth in the presence of exhaustible and renewable resources.

This course covers the bases for understanding micro- and macroeconomic issues and theories. Participants are given the tools to argue in economic and political terms and to evaluate the corresponding measures. Group and individual exercises deepen the knowledge gained.

Concepts and indicators of sustainable development, paradigms of weak and strong sustainability;neoclassical and endogenous growth models;economic growth in the presence of exhaustible and renewable resources; pollution, environmental policy and growth;role of substitution and technological progress;Environmental Kuznets Curve; sustainability policy.

Selected topics in forest policy and resource economics. Institutional settings and economic aspects of important environmental resources and their use.Organisation of the resource users, long-term effects of institutional regulation.

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Research Seminar in Resource Economics

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This course presents an economic perspective and core tools relevant to the private and public management of sustainability. Covered topics include how to define and measure sustainability, dynamic systems, core trade-offs, and essential tools for both business and policy, such as how to quantify consumer demand for sustainability. Applications include climate, energy, and biodiversity.

Relationship between economy and environment, market failure, external effects and public goods, contingent valuation, internalisation of externalities; economics of non-renewable resources, economics of renewable resources, cost-benefit analysis, sustainability, and international aspects of resource and environmental economics.

Relationship between economy and environment, market failure, external effects and public goods, contingent valuation, internalisation of externalities; economics of non-renewable resources, economics of renewable resources, cost-benefit analysis, sustainability, and international aspects of resource and environmental economics.

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