| Fødevareøkonomisk Institut | |||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Kandidat 1.år til Kandidat 2. år | ||||||||||||
| Varighed | En blok | ||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Kandidatkursus | ||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen skriftlig prøve Skriftlig auditorieeksamen Alle hjælpemidler tilladt Beskrivelse af eksamen: 4-hours written exam in curriculum Vægtning: Written exam: 100% 7-trinsskala, ekstern censur Eksamensdatoer: 24 January 2008 | ||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | Lectures and theoretical exercises | ||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Block 2 Ugestruktur: A | ||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | 290037 Welfare Economics and Policy Analysis 290013 Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 290042 Applied Econometrics for Environmental, Agricultural and Food Economists | ||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | None | ||||||||||||
| Kompetenceområder | |||||||||||||
| Competences within basic science: The welfare economic foundation for economic valuation methods and environmental cost-benefit analysis. Other economic theories relevant for project and policy appraisal. Competences within applied science: Statistical methods and other analytical techniques to economic valuation and project appraisal problems. Competences within Ethics & Values: The value and weighing concepts of neoclassical welfare economics compared to other ethical theories of value. | |||||||||||||
| Kursets målsætning | |||||||||||||
| It is the aim to provide the participants with the theoretical and methodological instruments required to conduct policy and project appraisals within the sphere of environmental protection and natural resource utilization. | |||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||
| Core components of the course are: (a) Value concepts and welfare measures; (b) Markets, general equilibrium and Pareto optimality; (c) Social welfare functions; (d) Revealed and stated preference methods for valuation, including: Production Function Approaches, Travel Cost Methods, Hedonic Value Methods, Contingent Valuation Method and Choice Modelling; (e) Aggregation of values across time (discounting); (f) Cost-benefit analysis. | |||||||||||||
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| Teaching is in the form of lectures and exercises. | |||||||||||||
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Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address" | |||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||
| Bateman, Ian J. et al.: Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: A Manual, Edward Elgar, 2002 Freeman, A. M.: The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 2nd Edition, Resources for the Future, 2003. Johansson, P.-O.: Cost-benefit analysis of environmental change, Cambridge University Press, 1993. Layard, R. & Glaister, S. (Eds.) (1994): Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cambridge University Press. Pearce, David, Ben Groom, Cameron Hepburn & Phoebe Koundouri: Valuing the Future. Recent advances in social discounting, World Economics, Vol. 4, No. 2 April-June 2003: pp 121-141. | |||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||
| Alex Dubgaard, adu@life.ku.dk, Fødevareøkonomisk Institut/Afdeling for Miljø og Regional Udvikling, Tlf: 35332280 | |||||||||||||
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