COURSE INFORMATION Course Title: ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

Code	Course Type	Regular Semester	Theory	Practice	Lab	Credits	ECTS
ECO 441	B	1	3	0	0	3	6

Academic staff member responsible for the design of the course syllabus (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature)	NA
Lecturer (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	Eglantina Hysa
Second Lecturer(s) (name, surname, academic title/scientific degree, email address and signature) and Office Hours:	NA
Teaching Assistant(s) and Office Hours:	NA
Language:	English
Compulsory/Elective:	Elective
Classroom and Meeting Time:
Course Description:	-
Course Objectives:	The objective of this course is to develop basic knowledge in environmental economic and provide them with an understanding of environmental issues from an economic perspective.

COURSE OUTLINE

Week	Topics
1	Overview of environmental government issues
2	Economic perspectives on the environment
3	Environmental externalities
4	Environmental valuation
5	Resource allocation over time
6	Common property and public goods
7	Managing renewable resources
8	Midterm/Energy and the environment
9	Global climate change
10	Pollution analysis and policy
11	Environmental regulation
12	International Environmental Issues and Treaties
13	Domestic and International Environmental Institutions
14	Sustainable development

Prerequisite(s):
Textbook:	Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach, Second Edition by Jonathan M. Harris, Houghton Mifflin (2006)
Other References:
Laboratory Work:
Computer Usage:
Others:	No

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES

1	Have a detailed understanding on the field of environmental economics.
2	Students will be able develop written and verbal skills in communicating an environmental economic perspective.
3	They will be able to use economic theory to analyze environmental issues form the economic perspective.
4	Students will learn how markets allocate resources and why they sometimes fail to allocates them optimally.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO... PROGRAM COMPETENCIES (Blank : no contribution, 1: least contribution ... 5: highest contribution)

No	Program Competencies	Cont.
Master of Science in Economics Program
1	The students are gained the ability to look at the problems of daily life from a broader perspective. They gain the needed skills not only to understand economic problems in economics but also to construct a model and defend in meaningful way.	3
2	They have knowledge about the microeconomics.	4
3	They have knowledge about the macroeconomics.	4
4	They have knowledge about the international economics and finance.	3
5	They have ability to use mathematical and statistical methods in economics.	2
6	They know how to use computer programs in both daily office usage and statistical data evaluations in public and private sector.
7	They have necessary economics skills that needed in private and public sector.	4
8	They are intended to be specialist in one of departmental fields that they choose from the list of general economics, growth and development, labor economics and labor market, environmental economics, agricultural economics, health economics, education economics and human development, political economics, international economics, monetary economics, finance economics, public finance, international financial markets and institutions, banking and central banking, international trade and banking, monetary economics and banking,	3
9	They have ability to utilize fundamental economic theories and tools to solve economic problems in economics.	3
10	They are aware of the fact that economics is a social science and they respect the social perspectives and social values of the society’s ethics.	4

COURSE EVALUATION METHOD

Method	Quantity	Percentage
Midterm Exam(s)	1	40
Presentation	1	10
Final Exam	1	40
Attendance		10
	Total Percent:	100%

ECTS (ALLOCATED BASED ON STUDENT WORKLOAD)

Activities	Quantity	Duration(Hours)	Total Workload(Hours)
Course Duration (Including the exam week: 16x Total course hours)	16	3	48
Hours for off-the-classroom study (Pre-study, practice)	16	3	48
Mid-terms	1	12	12
Assignments			0
Final examination	1	20	20
Other	2	11	22
Total Work Load:			150
Total Work Load/25(h):			6
ECTS Credit of the Course:			6