SYLLABUS

Unit. I :

Introduction: Key environmental issues and problems, economic way of thinking about these problems, basic concepts from economics; Pareto optimality and market failure in the presence of externalities; property rights and other approaches.

Unit - II 

The Design and Implementation of Environmental Policy Overview, Pigouvian taxes and effluent fees, tradable permits, implementation of environmental policies in India and international experience; transboundary environmental problems; economics of climate change.

Unit - III

Environmental Valuation Methods and Applications: Valuation of non-market goods and services--theory and practice; measurement methods; cost-benefit analysis of environmental policies and regulations.

Unit - IV

Sustainable Development Concepts; measurement; perspectives from Indian experience.

Unit - V:

The Theory of Externality- Positive & Negative Externality; Public Goods; Private Goods; Public Bads; Market Failure and Pigouvian Solution- Pigouvian Tax.; Coase's Theorem And Property Rights; Eco- Labelling; Eco-Efficiency.

Unit - VI

Social Limits to Growth Model; Green Accounting; Environmental Valuation Meaning, Need for Environmental Valuation, Methods of Environmental Valuation; Difficulty in Measuring Environmental Values, Environmental Damages and Its Valuation.

Unit VII

Indian Constitution and the Environment; Environmental Management - Meaning and Concept, Objectives and Goals, Obstacles; Environmental Impact Assessment; Environmental Education and Awareness- Dilemma of Environmental Ethics and Practical Problems, Environmental Education in India.

Unit - VIII

Population and Environment; Trade and Environment in the WTO Regime; Climate Change Meaning and Concept, Ozone Depletion, Acid Rain, Global Warming and Greenhouse Effect; Indian Environmental Issues and Legislations; Role of Judiciary in Environmental Protection and Conservation; International Environmental Issues and Legislations, Carbon Trading.

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