The aim of this course is to help the participants develop a conceptual framework within which national and international environmental problems can be analysed systematically and the effects of environmental regulation can be evaluated. In addition, the course aims at providing the participants with an understanding of the principles of optimal environmental regulation. The emphasis is primarily theoretical but reference will be made to empirical cases throughout the lectures and in the related supervision essays.

The course outline is available below. In addition, lecture notes and PowerPoint presentations will be made available as we go along. Finally, two sets of supervision questions are available.

Links to environmental sites

European Union's Environmental agency

European Union's Environmental database

OECD's environmental web page

OECD's home page for free documents.

Steve Hackett's Internet Resources for Economists

World Bank's environmental web page

Resources for the Future

United States Environmental Protection Agency

International Energy Agency

Links to global warming sites

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

Course outline

Course outline.

Lecture notes (pdf files) and PowerPoint presentations:

  Lecture 1 (PowerPoint).
  Lecture 2 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 3 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 4 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 5 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 6 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 7 (PowerPoint)
  Lecture 8 (PowerPoint)

  Lecture note 1
  Lecture note 2
  Lecture note 3
  Lecture note 4
  Lecture note 5
  Lecture note 6
  Lecture note 7
  Lecture note 8

Lecture notes for workshop in Helsinki April 2002.