About the course
This advanced bachelor’s course examines the links between human societies and natural resources through the lens of economics. Students learn to identify the policy challenges these links create, frame them with economic intuition and formal models, and use those tools to think about how resources can be managed sustainably.
The course is built around six themes: sustainability; depletable and replenishable resources; biodiversity and ecosystem management; market failures and the policy instruments that correct them; land use and agriculture; and the role of natural resources in development. Each theme pairs real-world data and case studies with the economic concepts needed to interpret them, connecting concrete policy questions to the analysis behind them.