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U.V.n°421
ECONOMIC POLICIES
(Sustainable Development and Natural Resources)
Semaine : 47 du 19 au 23/11/07
Durée prévue : 35 heures (4 ECTS)
Nombre d'étudiants : 10 ISAA maxi
Localisation et organisateur :
AgroParisTech-ENGREF
Responsable : Sébastien TREYER
Téléphone : 01.45.49.89.73
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Aim of the Course :
The course presents economic methods and tools used to model and evaluate public
policies in the field of sustainable development, especially for agricultural
and environmental resources. It includes two themes :
1) Environmental Public Policies – tools, models and experiments.
2) Local Development and Investment Management.
Programme to be followed :
This course has been designed to provide a means for the students to discuss the
economic policies of environnemental resources. The course includes :
A significant theoretical corpus :
the market for environmental goods
economic valuation of environmental goods
sustainable development
Related examples of policies :
Reforming Irrigation and Water services and National Accounts
Contracts for agricultural policies
Peasant farm management game case
Carbon finance and CDM projects
Student discussion of the case studies
Prerequisites for the course :
Working language : English
All the lecturers and students work in English (not usually their native
language) as in an international meeting. The objective is to see how
international experts discuss and defend their opinions in this international
language (“globish”).
Course exam :
After a brief presentation of some theoretical concepts, the students are
divided in groups of about 5 or 6. They have to study a proposition and a
counter proposition, by explaining the economic rationale, discussing arguments
and counter-arguments and stressing what proposition is confirmed or infirmed by
empirical data or case study. Needed documents are provided.
The ultimate goal is to achieve a Power Point presentation (about 15 slides for
a 10 minutes presentation) that will be presented to the class at the end of the
week !! This presentation includes notably a brief explanation of the
proposition and its counterpart, the economic underpinnings and discussion, the
confrontation with empirical data or examples and lastly concluding remarks such
as new insights. This work (presentation - debate) gives the note of this week.
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