Lucas Bretschger: Katalogdaten im Herbstsemester 2016 |  |
| Name | Herr Prof. em. Dr. Lucas Bretschger |
| Lehrgebiet | Ökonomie, insbesondere Ressourcenökonomie |
| Adresse | Ökonomie/Ressourcenökonomie ETH Zürich, ZUE F 7 Zürichbergstrasse 18 8092 Zürich SWITZERLAND |
| Telefon | +41 44 632 21 92 |
| lbretschger@ethz.ch | |
| Departement | Management, Technologie und Ökonomie |
| Beziehung | Professor emeritus |
| Nummer | Titel | ECTS | Umfang | Dozierende | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 363-0537-00L | Resource and Environmental Economics | 3 KP | 2G | L. Bretschger, A. Brausmann | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Relationship between economy and environment, market failure, external effects and public goods, contingent valuation, internalisation of externalities; economics of non-renewable resources, economics of renewable resources, cost-benefit analysis, sustainability, and international aspects of resource and environmental economics. | ||||
| Lernziel | Understanding of the basic issues and methods in resource and environmental economics; ability to solve typical problems in the field using the appropriate tools, which are concise verbal explanations, diagrams or mathematical expressions. Topics are: Introduction to resource and environmental economics Importance of resource and environmental economics Main issues of resource and environmental economics Normative basis Utilitarianism Fairness according to Rawls Economic growth and environment Externalities in the environmental sphere Governmental internalisation of externalities Private internalisation of externalities: the Coase theorem Free rider problem and public goods Types of public policy Efficient level of pollution Tax vs. permits Command and Control Instruments Empirical data on non-renewable natural resources Optimal price development: the Hotelling-rule Effects of exploration and Backstop-technology Effects of different types of markets. Biological growth function Optimal depletion of renewable resources Social inefficiency as result of over-use of open-access resources Cost-benefit analysis and the environment Measuring environmental benefit Measuring costs Concept of sustainability Technological feasibility Conflicts sustainability / optimality Indicators of sustainability Problem of climate change Cost and benefit of climate change Climate change as international ecological externality International climate policy: Kyoto protocol Implementation of the Kyoto protocol in Switzerland | ||||
| Inhalt | Economy and natural environment, welfare concepts and market failure, external effects and public goods, measuring externalities and contingent valuation, internalising external effects and environmental policy, economics of non-renewable resources, renewable resources, cost-benefit-analysis, sustainability issues, international aspects of resource and environmental problems, selected examples and case studies. | ||||
| Skript | Learning material and script can be found here: https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=328 | ||||
| Literatur | Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J, Common, M.: "Natural Resource & Environmental Economics", 3d edition, Longman, Essex 2003. | ||||
| 364-0531-00L | CER-ETH Research Seminar | 0 KP | 2S | H. Gersbach, A. Bommier, L. Bretschger, W. Mimra | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Forschungsseminar des Center of Economic Research CER-ETH | ||||
| Lernziel | Verständnis der aktuell führenden Forschung in den Gebieten der CER-ETH Professuren. | ||||
| Inhalt | Referate zu aktuellen Forschungsergebnissen aus den Bereichen Ressourcen- und Umweltökonomie, theoretische und angewandte Wachstums- und Aussenwirtschaftstheorie sowie Energie- und Innovationsökonomie von in- und ausländischen Gastreferierenden sowie von ETH-internen Referierenden. | ||||
| Voraussetzungen / Besonderes | Bitte spezielle Ankündigungen beachten. Studierende des GESS-Pflichtwahlfachs sollten sich vor Beginn mit der Seminarleitung in Verbindung setzen. | ||||
| 751-1551-00L | Ressourcen- und Umweltökonomie  | 3 KP | 2V | L. Bretschger, A. Müller | |
| Kurzbeschreibung | Relationship between economy and environment, market failure, external effects and public goods, contingent valuation, internalisation of externalities; economics of non-renewable resources, economics of renewable resources, cost-benefit analysis, sustainability, and international aspects of resource and environmental economics. | ||||
| Lernziel | Understanding of the basic issues and methods in resource and environmental economics; ability to solve typical problems in the field using the appropriate tools, which are concise verbal explanations, diagrams or mathematical expressions. Topics are: Introduction to resource and environmental economics Importance of resource and environmental economics Main issues of resource and environmental economics Normative basis Utilitarianism Fairness according to Rawls Economic growth and environment Externalities in the environmental sphere Governmental internalisation of externalities Private internalisation of externalities: the Coase theorem Free rider problem and public goods Types of public policy Efficient level of pollution Tax vs. permits Command and Control Instruments Empirical data on non-renewable natural resources Optimal price development: the Hotelling-rule Effects of exploration and Backstop-technology Effects of different types of markets. Biological growth function Optimal depletion of renewable resources Social inefficiency as result of over-use of open-access resources Cost-benefit analysis and the environment Measuring environmental benefit Measuring costs Concept of sustainability Technological feasibility Conflicts sustainability / optimality Indicators of sustainability Problem of climate change Cost and benefit of climate change Climate change as international ecological externality International climate policy: Kyoto protocol Implementation of the Kyoto protocol in Switzerland | ||||
| Inhalt | Economy and natural environment, welfare concepts and market failure, external effects and public goods, measuring externalities and contingent valuation, internalising external effects and environmental policy, economics of non-renewable resources, renewable resources, cost-benefit-analysis, sustainability issues, international aspects of resource and environmental problems, selected examples and case studies. | ||||
| Skript | The script and lecture material are provided at: https://moodle-app2.let.ethz.ch/course/view.php?id=140 | ||||
| Literatur | Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J, Common, M.: "Natural Resource & Environmental Economics", 3d edition, Longman, Essex 2003. | ||||