Subject Code:   HS3L002 Name: Environomics L-T-P: 3-0-0

Credit: 3

Pre-requisite(s): Nil
Introduction ; Environment and Optical Allocation of Resources; Population and Environment; Ecology, Urban and Industrial Development and its Environmental Impact; Theoretical Perspective ; Basic Economic Concepts and Analytical Tools, Environmental Models, Cost Benefit Analysis, Pareto Efficiency, Social Welfare Function and Equity Considerations; Limits to Growth Doomsday Model, Sustainable Development, Problems of Depletion of Resources, Environmental Pollution and Degradation; Environmental Concerns and Policy Analysis with Special Reference to Developing Countries such as India.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Kolstad,C.D., Environmental Economics, London: OUP.
  2. Sterner, Thomas, Policy Instruments for Environmental and Natural Resource Management. Washington, DC: Resources for the Future Press.
  3. Pearce, David, Anil Markandya, and Ed Barbier, Blueprint for a Green Economy, London: Earthscan Publications.
  4. Tietenberg, Tom H., Emissions Trading: Principles and Practice, RFF press
  5. M. Common and S. Stagi, Ecological Economics an Introduction, Cambridge University Press
  6. R. Quentin Grafton, Wiktor  Adamowicz, The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources, Wiley Blackwell Publication.
  7. Baumol, W.J., and E. E. Oates,  The Theory of Environmental Policy, Cambridge University Press
  8. Titenberg,T., Environmental Economics and Policy, Addision-Wesley