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M.Sc in Environment Economics: Curricula
1- Computer: Basics
2- English Language: General Course
3- English Language: Specialized Course
4- Statistical Mathematics
5- An Introduction to Environment
6- Environmental Pollution
7-Micro-economics
8-Macro-economics
9-Environmental Planning and Management
10- Environmental impact Assessment
11- Fundamentals of Environmental Economics
12- Environmental Economics
13-Environmental Accounting
14- Economic Valuation of Natural Resources
15- Environmental Economics Workshop
16- Economics Seminar
17- Sustainable Development and Environment
18- Natural Ecosystems of Iran (Aquatic &Terrestrial)
19- Environmental Management Standards and Regulations
20- Energy Economics
21- Application of Statistics in Environmental Management
22- Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in Environment
23- Development Economics and the Third World Issues
24- Economy of Iran
25- Thesis
Course Content :
Environmental Economics Course Outlines
Package
Pre Requisites Subjects
Econometrics
Credits: 3
Curricula
1- One equation regression models based on algorithmic matrix
2- Side characteristics of least squares estimators and maximum likelihood
3- Hypothesis testing and predictions in complex regression models
4- Random explanatory variables
5- Problem of variables selection
6- Virtual variables and logit/probit models and multi choice models
7- Non-normal errors: implication of non-normal disturbances, normal
errors test, model estimation with non-normal errors
8- Isolines in econometrics
9- Auto-regressions
10- Isovariance ellipse
11- Distributed lag models with a discussion of their estimation
12- Errors of designation /determination/ models and their impacts on
estimation of parameters
13- Estimation of non-linear models
14- Fraud irrelevant equations
Foundation of Environmental Economics
Credits: 3
Curricula
1. An introduction to environmental economics
History of environmental economics
The Importance of environmental economics
The Role of environmental economics in environmental management
Economy and Environment
Basic concepts of environmental economics
Quality of the environment
Sustainable development
Biological diversity
Environmental Planning and policy-making
2. Mechanism of market activities
Market
Demand and supply and equilibrium of market price
Demand and consumer behavior
Market demand for private goods
indifference curves in utility theory
Demand elasticity
Supply
Market supply for private goods
Price elasticity of supply
Price equilibrium in competitive and noncompetitive markets
Demand and supply curves shifting
How markets function?
Consumer and producer surplus
3. Market failure
Weakness or lack of property rights
Public goods
Market supply for air quality
Price equilibrium for air quality
Externalities
Public goods externalities
Externalities and environmental degradation
4. Conventional solutions for environmental problems
Command and control approaches
Use of standards in environmental policies
Legal limitation
A general approach to implement environmental policies
5. Economic tools to deal with environmental problems
Market approach
Identifying types of market instruments types
Pollution penalties
Subsidies
System of tradable pollution permits
System of Deposit and refund
Market approach modelling
6. Valuation of environmental endowments
Accounting of national income and Valuation of environmental
endowments
Classification of environmental goods and services
Types of environmental economics values
Principles of environmental endowments valuation
Microeconomics
Credits: 3
Curricula
1. Introduction: nature theory and scope of economics: normative and positive
economics
2. Consumer theory
Fundamental concepts
Consumer preferences and their types
Revealed utility preferences and utility function types
Consumer choice
Optimal choice for different preferences
Optimization of consumption and demand
Hicks and Slutsky theorem
Effects of wealth/income on demand surplus of consumers surplus in
case of uncertainties
3. Theory of the Firm
Basic concepts of optimization
Maximization of the firm’s profit
Isoprofit curves and production functions
Production Isoquant-Isocost curves
Input demand functions
Game theory
4. Perfect competition markets
Perfect competition assumption
Demand functions
Supply functions
Short- and long-run supply of the firm
Short- and long-run industry supply
Labour market equilibrium
5. Perfect monopoly markets
Monopoly and the matter of economic efficiency
Profit maximization and cost minimization
Price discrimination
Monopolistic competition
6. Distribution theory
7. Review of production factors pricing
Demand function for production factors in perfect competition condition
Demand function for production factors in monopoly in purchase
condition
8. Theory of information
Macroeconomics
Credits: 3
Course Outlines:
1-Notions and macroeconomics variables overview, National Account Analysis,
Price index implications
2-Agregate Demand Analyses
Income Determinations in two and three sectors, Multiplier Coefficient, IS Curve,
Money and Bonds Markets Analyses, Demand and Supply Money, IM Curve,
Static Equilibrium Model in Economic Demand Sector, Aggregate Demand Curve,
Impact Evaluation of Monetary and Fiscal policies in Economic Demand Sector.
3-Aggregate Supply Analyses
Labor Market Analyses, Prices and its expectations Changes Impacts, Change in
Wages effects, Derived Total Supply Curve, Disturbing in Economic Supply
Sector
4- Static Macroeconomic Equilibrium Model
Quantity Determination of Employment, Prices and Discount Rate, Evaluation of
Money tray and Fiscal Policies Impacts on Macroeconomics Variables, Evaluation
of Income Policy Impacts ( Prices and Wages Control)
5- Open Macroeconomics
Foreign Trade Sector intervention, International Capital Movements, Balance of
Payments Analyses, Money tray and Fiscal Policies Impacts on effective Exchange
Rate in Open economy
6-Generalized Static Macroeconomic Analyses
Aggregate Consumption and Investment Theories, Money Supply and Demand
Theories, Determination of Equilibrium Income, Employment, General Prices, and
Interest Rate in Generalized Model
7-Dynamic Analyses (Medium Term)
Analyses of Inflation and Wages Trends, Inflation and Unemployment Relation,
Philips Curve, Economic Growth Models
Statistical Mathematics
Credits: 3
Curricula
1- Foundation of statistics
2- Importance of statistics in research
3- General framework of a statistical study
4- Types of studies
5- Steps of a study
6- Regulation of objectives, processes and research questions
7- Population under study
8- Sampling methods and techniques
9- Variables and their definition
10- Measuring scales
11- Data collection and resource identification
12- Statistical reliability and confidence level
13- Questionnaire design
14- Introduction to descriptive statistics methods
15- Probabilities and inferential statistics models
16- One-way and multi-way ANOVA and their applications
17- Multivariate regression analysis and use of them in data and
information analysis
18- Taking a glance on reporting
Main Subjects
Advanced micro economics
Pre requirements: microeconomics
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theatrical
Level: PhD
Micro economic principles and methodology
Basic mathematical terms
Firm’s theorem
Production function and cost function
Profit function
Production function and inputs demand function
Market theorem
Perfect competition market
Monopoly and oligopoly markets
Inputs market
Consumer behavior theory
Utility and demand function characteristics
General equilibrium theory
Advanced Environmental Economics (1)
Credits: 2
Course Outlines:
1- Economics and Environment connection, Ecosystems and Environment
2-Notionsof Property Rights, Opportunity Cost, Environment Scarcity Rent,
Efficiency.
3- Analyses of Coase’s Theorem (1960), Bargaining Solution Verses Competitive
Market Solution.
4- Negative and Positive Externalities.
5- Market, Home and Environmental Goods.
6- Market Failures (Incomplete Market, Public Goods and Non-rivalry,
Asymmetric information).
7- Cost and Benefit Pollution Control,(Emission Transformation Function,
Marginal Cost of Pollution Control)
8- Pollution Kinds (Air Pollution, Water Pollution, Solid and Waste, Radiactive
Material Emissions).
9- Regulations, Laws, Implementations in Pollution Control.
10-Prefernces and Ethic Individuals Related to Environment.
11-Prefernces and Social Choices Related to Environment.
12- Point and Non-Point Pollution, Single and Compound Pollution.
13- Pareto Optimality and Environmental Quality.
14- Carbon Tax.
Advanced Environmental Economics (2)
Credits: 2
Course Outline:
1-Pollution Control Technology
2- Asymmetric and symmetric Pollution Control Tools.
-Subsidies, Price Discrimination, Numerical and quantitative Quotas.
-Trade able permits and market exchange.
3-Environmental Protection Methods (Second best Implicit Policy Approaches).
4- Environmental Risk, Obligations and Commitments.
5- Pigovian Tax, Environmental effects of Pollution Tax.
6- Price Determination of Polluting Firms and Industries Under Competitive and
Monopoly Conditions.
7- Dynamic Equation Determination of Abatement Emission with Innovation in
Technology.
8- Green Efficiency and Productivity in polluting Firms.
9- Factors impacts on Polluting Firms and industries Concentration.
10- Environmental Input-Output Models.
11- Testing Kuznet’s Hypotheses with Environmental Setting.
12- Sustainable Development.
13- Development of Renewable and Deplete able Energy Resources Connected to
Environmental Issue.
14- Trade and Environment.
15- Population Growth, Economic Growth and Environment.
16-MacroeconomicVariables and Environment (Sustainable Income, Green Saving
and Investment, Green National Consumption..).
Economic Valuation of environment of resource
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: practical and theatrical
Level: PhD
Value price and production cost
Value types of environmental assets
Valuation methods for environmental assets
Stated and revalued production theory
Willingness to pay and willingness to accept
Compensatory variations function Vis a Vis equivalent variations functions
Production function to determine shadow price for environment utility
Indirect utility function method to determine social welcome due to improved
environmental quality
Travel cost method and house hold production function
Environmental demand theory
Practical techniques, logit, two-bit and probity
Maximum light hood method
Review of best practices at international and national levels for ecosystems and
environmental assets
Obligatory Subjects
Optimum control in economic systems
Pre requirements: macroeconomics and microeconomics
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theatrical and practical
Level: PhD
Optimum allocation of resources
Static optimization
Leaner programming non leaner programming
Game theory
Static optimization application
House hold theory
Firm theory
General equilibrium
Dynamic optimization
Control issues
Results changes estimation
Dynamic programming
Maximization principled
Game theory differential equation
Dynamic optimization application
Optimum economic growth
Optimum utilization of non-renewable resources
Advanced Environmental Accounting
Credits: 2
Course Outlines:
1- Historical Review of National Accounts in the World.
2- Integrated National Accounting System (Income-Output Account, National
Balance Sheet, Input-Output Table)
3- Depletion Determination of Exhaustible, Renewable and Quasi Renewable
Resources.
4- Depreciation Determination of Man Made Capital (Physical Capital).
5- Measuring Approaches of National accounts (Value added, Income Distribution,
Expenditure Settings).
6- Avoiding Double Accounting in National Accounting.
7-Services and Activities Values not included in National Accounting System.
8- Notion and Measure of Green Gross National Product and it Components.
9- Sustainable National Income and Consumption
10- Social and Environmental Input-Output Table
11- Sustainable Development and Integrated Environmental Accounting.
12- Natural Capital Evaluation and Integrated Environmental Accounting.
13- Green Energy Intensity.
Renewable and Non-Renewable Resources Theories
Credits: 2
Course Outline:
1- Exhaustible Energy Resources and Economics
- Optimal Allocation of Exhaustible Resources
- Competitive Behavior of Extracting Firm in Monopoly and Competitive
Conditions
- To Survey of Extracting Firm Behavior in Oligopolistic Market
- To Survey of the Behavior of Cartel, Fringe and Backstop Energy Producers
- Application of Nash Bargaining Game Theory for Energy Resource
Producers.
- To Survey the Impacts of Government Financial Tools on Optimal
Exhaustible Resource Extraction
2- Economics and Durable Exhaustible Resource and Materials
- Durable Goods Demand
- Hotelling’s Rule
- Stock price verses Flow price
- Degree of Durability and its effects on Exploitation
3- Economics and Renewable Resources
- Biological Function of Biomass
- Exploitation of Biomass in Static and Dynamic Conditions
- Exploitation under Private and Common Property Right
- Economic Use of Forest and Land usage
4- Economic Use of Water
- Formal and Informal Water Market
- Tariff and Price of Water ( Urban Water, Industry, Residential and
Commercial)
- Water Pricing methods
- Reproducible Water in the Nature
- Water Use in Industry and Economics
Optional Subjects
Sustainable development and environment
Credits:2
Hours: 34
Type: theatrical
Level: PhD
Sustainable development:
Definition and concepts
Sustainable development and economic development
Sallow Hardwick method
Natural capital saving method
Standard minimum security
Paly operation principles
Environmental sustainability index
Green human development index
Genuine saving method
Sustainable development Measurement in fuzzy model
Environmental standards and regulations
Credits: 2
Curricula
1- History of environmental rules and regulations in Iran
2- Definition of standards, rules and regulations
3- Types of environmental rules and regulations
4- Formation and establishment of environmental rules and regulations
5- Familiarization with environmental regulatory entities
6- Approval stages of environmental regulation
7- International and domestic environmental standards
8- ISO 14000 series of environmental management standards
9- Integrated management standards
10- Familiarization with legal supports to enforce laws and environmental
standards
11- Environmental penalties and their calculation methods
Economy of Iran and environment
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theoretical
Level: PhD
A historical review of human and non-human production factors
Role of state involvement in the economy will emphasis on development
plans pre and post Islamic revolution
Sectorial review of the economy: agriculture, industry, oil, cost, services,
commerce, social and economic infrastructure
A review of development strategies towards tacking challenger and capacity
building
Policy packages towards facilitating macro, sectorial and sub sectorial
development
Environmental planning and policies
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theoretical
Level: PhD
An introduction to logical principles
An introduction to the principles of planning, policy marking and logistician
in Iran
A general review of environmental and historical laws and logistician
The role of environment in the general police
A review of the vision and future of environment in the logical rules and
legislations
Environmental industrial economic
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theoretical
Level: PhD
An introduction to economic and industrial origination restructuring,
deregulation and privatization
Environmental concentration multiplier in industry and firms
Economic and environmental
Performance in in industry and firms
Environment profit margin, price, and average cost
Recycling technologies industry and firms
Pollution prevention and reduction hardware technologies
Undesirable cost production in industry and industry trims
Market failure consumer to undesirable production
Efficiency, productivity and sustainable production in industry and firms
Waste in transformation industries
Environmental Lorne index
Energy, Economic and Environment Modeling
Credits: 2
Course Outlines:
1- Introduction for Systems Base and System Research
2- Energy Planning, Planning Principle Illustration, Usage of System analyses
Approach in Supply Planning
3- Energy Demand and Supply Energy
- Methodology of Econometric Models and Energy demand Development
Analyses
- Methodological Development of Optimizing singe Fuel Models
- Methodological Development of Simulation and Engineering Models
- Methodological Development of Optimizing Energy Supply System Models
4- Models of Energy-Economics – Environment
- Co-Integrated Models
- The Set of Models of Economic, Energy and Environment
- Multiple Measures of Optimization Models
5- Models of Risk analyses Resulted from Environment Pollution
- Risk Estimation Due to Production and Energy consumption
- Externality Evaluation Due to Environment Pollution
- Evaluation of Improved methods for Fuels and Structural changes in
Production and Energy Consumption
International and regional environmental economic challenges
Credits: 2
Hours: 34
Type: theoretical
Level: PhD
Democracy indices and environmental protection:
Carbon tax and international condolences such of Kyoto
State duties and legislation towards environment (eu, Russia, us)
International environmental agreements
Global and regional convergence
Towards environmental values
Environmental equity and international understanding
Regional strategies and programmed towards environment
Us and other theories towards environmental economic development
Political theories of international environment