Education
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| Behavioral-Environmental Economics and Policy | TThe goal of this course is to provide students with an understanding of the relationship between behavioral economics and environmental policy and address its implication in areas like climate change, sustainable energy consumption, and biodiversity loss. This will involve discussing a number of experimental applications and insights. |
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| PhD Colloquium on Climate Change – Science, Economics, and Policy | The objective of this colloquium is to provide PhD students an opportunity to discuss their climate change related research with researchers from different disciplines. PhD students should widen the horizon of their own research, learn how their research is embedded in the broader climate change debate and gain new insights and stimuli for interdisciplinary research. Eventually they can extend their network across several institutes of ETH and UZH. |
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| The Energy Challenge – The Role of Technology, Business and Society | In recent years, energy security, risks, access and availability are important issues. Strongly redirecting and accelerating technological change on a sustainable low-carbon path is essential. The transformation of current energy systems into sustainable ones is not only a question of technology but also of the goals and influences of important actors like business, politics and society |
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| The Economics of Climate Change | Climate change is one of the most pressing issues that governments and the global community have to face. This course outlines the problem of climate change and discusses the economic solutions (both domestic and international) to this problem. This course has a number of objectives: (i) To outline the problem of climate change (ii) to discuss and compare the theoretical economic solutions to combating climate change (iii) to present existing climate change mitigation actions in an economic context and (iv) to outline possible future climate policy issues. |
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| Values and Regulation in Environmental Economics | Solving environmental problems generally requires the state to setting incentives to reduce the individual or collective activities that are harmful to the environment. Yet, the necessity to regulate as well as the form and the intensity of environmental regulation are quite closely connected to the system of shared values within society. Course participants will learn to independently analyze situations subject to the interplay between environmentally necessary and socially acceptable regulations. To achieve this, the course covers several analytical frameworks developed within different social sciences. The general setup of the course is based on partial self-study of specific concepts combined with a discursive application of learnings within the group. |
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| Environmental Economics | Introduction to environmental economic theory, analysis of external effects and possibilities of internalization, effectiveness of environmental policy tools, analysis at national and global level, global climate policy. |
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