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Natural resource economics

Course aims

Training of students with an interest towards the area of economics of natural resources, who will strengthen their understanding of theoretical and methodological tools and empirical findings, relative to sectors such as agro-forestry, water resource management, mining, fisheries, and issues of environmental protection. This will allow course participants to develop capabilities for their professional involvement in the public or private sector, in the activities concerned.

Literature

Harris, J., B. Roach (2014): Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. A Contemporary Approach, Routledge, Oxford.

Advised literature

Amundsen, E., T. Bjørndal, J. Conrad (1995): Open Access Harvesting of the Northeast Atlantic Minke Whale, Environmental and Resource Economics, 6(2), 167-185.

Bulte E. (2003): Open Access Harvesting of Wildlife: The Poaching Pit and Conservation of Endangered Species, Agricultural Economics, 28(1), 27-37.

Carlisle, D. (1954): The Economics of a Fund Resource with Particular Reference to Mining, American Economic Review, 44, 595-616.

Coppola, G., S. Pascoe (1998): A Surplus Production Model with a Nonlinear Catch-Effort Relationship, Marine Resource Economics, 13, 37-50.

Devarajan, S., A.C. Fisher (1981): Hotelling’s ‘Economics of Exhautible Resources’: Fifty Years Later, Journal of Economic Literature, 19(1), 65-73.

Fields, B. (2001): Natural Resource Economics. An Introduction, Waveland Press, Illinois.

Fox, W.J. (1970): An Exponential Surplus-Yield Model for Optimising Exploited Fish Populations. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society, 99(1), 80-88.

Gocht, W.R., H. Zandop, R.G. Eggert (1988): International Mineral Economics, Springer Verlag, Berlin.

Hannesson, R. (2008): Sustainability of Fisheries, Electronic Journal of Sustainable Development, 1(2), 13-22.

Hotelling, H. (1931): The Economics of Exhaustible Resources, Journal of Political Economy, 39(2), 137-175.

Johansson, P.O., K.G. Löfgren (1985): The Economics of Forestry and Natural Resources, Blackwell, Oxford.

Kemp, M.C., N.V. Long (Eds.) (1984): Essays in the Economics of Exhaustible Resources, North Holland, Amsterdam.

Klamperer, W.D. (1996): Forest Resource Economics and Finance, McGraw-Hill, Singapore.

Kremer, M., C. Morcom (2000): Elephants, American Economic Review, 90(1), 212-234.

Krishnan, R., J. Harris, N. Goodwin (Eds.) (1995): A Survey of Ecological Economics, Island Press, Washington DC.

Kula, E. (1994): Economics of Natural Resources, the Environment and Policies, Chapman&Hall, London.

Mkenda, A., H. Folmer. (2001): The Maximum Sustainable Yield of Artisanal Fishery in Zanzibar: A Cointegration Approach, Environmental and Resource Economics, 19(4), 311-328.


Language of instruction angličtina
Code 156-0556
Abbreviation NRE
Course title Natural resource economics
Coordinating department Department of Applied Economics
Course coordinator Dr. Stefano Mainardi