1. Ecological Economics Syllabus for 2008-09 Tiago Domingos Assistant Professor Environment and Energy Scientific Area Department of Mechanical Engineering Doctoral Program and Advanced Degree in Sustainable Energy Systems Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering

2. Assessment Groups of 2 students –Weekly problem sets Mechanical Engineering students can deliver a second version, with the grade being the average of the two versions –Course project: sustainability assessment of a country, integrating the course tools

3. Syllabus I Scale (ecology), distribution (ethics), efficiency (economics), constraints (thermodynamics) Ecological vs. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Ethics and welfare Static vs. intertemporal optimisation –Lagrangian multipliers –Optimal control theory: Pontryagin’s maximum principle Microeconomics –Review of consumer theory –Review of producer theory –Review of market structures Pollution economics; pollution control instruments

4. Syllabus II Ecological and economic networks –Life Cycle Analysis –Input-Output Analysis –Computable General Equilibrium Models –Indicators of environmental responsibility Economic valuation methods Intertemporal choice and uncertainty –Uncertainty –Discount rate –Cost-benefit analysis

5. Syllabus III National Accounting and Macroeconomic Variables –Direct vs. indirect requirements –National accounting conventions –Inflation: nominal vs. real quantities –Exchange rates and purchasing power parity Sustainable development –Weak vs. strong sustainability –Economic growth Neoclassical and endogenous Ayres Environmental Kuznets hypothesis Growth accounting –Economic theory of sustainable development –Biophysical and other indicators of sustainable development Human Development Index Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare Ecological Footprint Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production...