SEE3002 - Energy and Environmental Economics | ||||||||
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| * The offering term is subject to change without prior notice | ||||||||
Course Aims | ||||||||
This course aims to initiate students into the fields of energy and environmental economics and the economics of collectively shared resources. Students will become conversant with the language and methods of energy and environmental economics and be able to create applications of these methods to real-world problems. They will learn and use terminology such as externalities, public goods, common property resources, marginal cost pricing, cost-benefit analysis, and many other terms and the practical applications of these concepts. They will understand the economic principles and practices behind the use of market instruments to conserve energy resources and to discover the price of, and control environmental impacts, including taxation, feed-in tariffs, and other features of current and future economics-based methodologies, analyses, laws, standards, and regulations, and they will be able to innovate solutions to environmental problems by applying these principles. | ||||||||
Assessment (Indicative only, please check the detailed course information) | ||||||||
Continuous Assessment: 60% | ||||||||
Examination: 40% | ||||||||
Examination Duration: 2 hours | ||||||||
To pass a course, a student must do ALL of the following: 1) obtain at least 30% of the total marks allocated towards continuous assessment (combination of assignments, pop quizzes, term paper, lab reports and/ or quiz, if applicable); 2) obtain at least 30% of the total marks allocated towards final examination (if applicable); and 3) meet the criteria listed in the section on Assessment Rubrics. | ||||||||
Detailed Course Information | ||||||||
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