Undergraduate TAS-BEA207-2023
Natural Resource Economics
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Duration
14 weeks
Study method
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Assessments
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Prior study
Not required
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Subject details
Upon completion of this subject, the student should be able to:
- Examine environmental and natural resource issues and policies using the economic way of thinking.
- Apply economic concepts and techniques to analyse environmental and natural resource issues and critically evaluate policy responses.
- Analyse environmental and resource problems as failures of the economic system to properly coordinate people's incentives and actions.
- Communicate economics in oral and written format.
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- Introduction to Resource Economics
- Market Failure and Public Policy in Resource Economics
- Allocation of exhaustible resources
- Allocation of exhaustible resources
- Economics of Fisheries Management
- Economics of Fisheries Management
- Economics of Forestry Management
- Economics of Forestry Management
- Economics of Biodiversity
- Economics of Soils and Water
- Economics of Global Resources
- Student Presentation
- Review
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Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Practical, public policy-orientated lectures and tutorials in this subject explore the practical issues of resource management using international, Australian and Tasmanian case studies. There will be specific focus on the sustainable yield of fisheries and the management of forests for multiple uses. Students will also study non-renewable resources such as mining. Students will learn how to apply economic concepts to analyse the causes of resource degradation and to evaluate alternative policy options to resolve resource management problems. By the end of the subject, students will have engaged in discussion and analysis of the complex trade-offs involved in crafting policy responses to resource management issues.
- Assignment (20%)
- Presentation (10%)
- Research Paper (30%)
- Take Home Examination (40%)
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