Topics covered include:

•         The Environmental Economics
•         Scarcity, resource allocation and optimization
•         Non-renewable resources: intertemporal models for optimal extraction
•         Policies for renewable resources. Substitutability of natural capital and scarcity 
•         Sustainable development and growth patterns (bioeconomy and circular economy)
•         Efficiency and control of environmental problems
•         Environmental externalities and pollution
•         Economic and fiscal instruments for environmental control
•         Economic analysis and collective action for decision-making purposes
•         Economic evaluation techniques for assessing social costs and benefits
•         Intergenerational equity
•         Environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment and the multi-criteria techniques

Methodologies considered are:

•         Hedonic prices
•         Contingent valuation
•         Choice experiment
•         Deliberative democracy and other no-market approaches