Economic Consequences of Climate Changes 4.17.E.304

Topics:
• Organizational lecture
• Causes and consequences of climate change
• Economic analysis of climate change and modelling the economic consequences of climate change
• The damages from selected climate change impacts to 2060
• The bigger picture of climate change
• Analysing long-term effects of climate change
• Policy responses to climate change and the benefits of policy action
• A written test

Field of study

Ekonomia

Supplementary literature

1. G. Wagner, M.L. Weitzman, Climate shock, The economic consequences of a hotter plane, Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2. J. Colmer, Essays on the Economic Consequences of Weather and Climate Change, The London School of Economics and Political Science, March 2016

Student workload

A. Contact hours: 15h/ 1 ECTS Participation in classes: 15 godz. Participation in a credit / exam, direct contact: 17 godz. B. Student’s own work: 60 h/ 2 ECTS Preparation for classes: 30 godz. Preparation for a credit: 30 godz.

Study level

Education profile

ogólnoakademicki

Type of course

elective courses

The semester in which the subject is carried out

WINTER

Mode

(in Polish) Realizowany w sali

Requirements

none

Course coordinators

Bartosz Fortuński

Learning outcomes

Knowledge: Graduate knows and understands
1. selected facts, objects and economic phenomena as well as related economic methods and theories explaining the complex relationships between climate change and the costs associated with it (k_W01)
SKILLS
2. examine relationships between economic phenomena and create cause-and-effect models describing specific economic consequences of climate changes (K_U05)
3. characterize phenomena and processes of economic consequences of climate changes , using the achievements of economic theory and other scientific disciplines (K_U08)
SOCIAL COMPETENCE
4. they critically evaluate their own knowledge, especially economic knowledge about consequences of climate changes, and constantly update and supplement it ( K_K01)

Assessment criteria

A. Forms of credit (learning effects verification)
Lecture: Final presentation (1,2,3,4).
Tutorial: Credit at the base of:
Activity in class (1,2,3,4),
Final Presentation (1,2,3,4),
B. Basic criteria of scoring
Being prepared to classes (30%), presentation (70%):

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