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Course

HUM-471: Economic growth and sustainability I

Lectures in this course (156)

Basics 2: Capital and Saving

Covers the law of motion of capital, saving, investment, and estimating a capital stock.

Sustainability and Wealth

Explores economic growth, sustainability, wealth of nations, testing sustainability, wealth accounting, and natural capital increase.

Sustainability and Wealth

Explores 'Adjusted Net Saving' as a sustainability measure and its implications on different income levels and regions.

Resources: Affluence and Limits

Delves into the complex relationship between natural resources, income, and growth, exploring optimal extraction rates and sustainable resource management.

Affluence and Limits: Resources

Explores limits to growth, resource distribution, oil production, and environmental impacts.

Economic Growth: Measuring Total Production and Value Added

Explores how GDP measures total production using prices as a common denominator and explains the concept of value added in the economy.

IPAT and Kaya: Decoupling Environmental Impacts

Explores IPAT and Kaya concepts to decouple environmental impacts from affluence, discussing CO2 emissions, growth rates, relationships between variables, and necessary reductions.

Green growth and EKC

Delves into green growth, the EKC, rebound effect, and empirical evidence.

Demographics: Population Growth and Determinants

Explores the recent explosion of the world's population, demographic changes, and the theories of Reverend Malthus.

Demographic Transition: Explained and Analyzed

Explores the concept of demographic transition, analyzing the shift from high to low birth and death rates in populations.

Demographic Transition: Global Trends and Implications

Delves into the demographic transition model, birth and death rates evolution, fertility trends, and population aging implications globally.

Demographics: Fertility Decline and Age Pyramid Evolution

Examines fertility decline, standard of living impact, demographic transition, and age pyramid evolution.

Population 2 - Overpopulation

Explores the consequences of overpopulation on food resources, economic growth, and the environment, addressing hunger, food security, and the paradox of food scarcity amid abundance.

Environmental Impacts: Mobility and Transport

Explores environmental impacts of mobility and transport, emphasizing the need for sustainable practices and public intervention.

Types of Instruments for Sustainable Development

Explores types of instruments for sustainable development, focusing on effectiveness, cost-efficiency, and feasibility in environmental and climate policy.

Cost-Efficiency in Environmental Policy

Explores criteria for environmental policy instruments, marginal cost, abatement levels, and cost-efficient mitigation efforts.

Main Components of GDP

Explores the main components of GDP, trade balances, and international trade dynamics.

Equity and Acceptability in Environmental Policy

Explores equity and acceptability in environmental policy instruments, emphasizing the importance of acceptance for effectiveness and discussing ways to enhance instrument acceptability.

Introduction to Environmental Growth and Sustainability

Introduces the Environmental Growth and Sustainability course, focusing on semester projects and group work.

Climate Science: Importance and Impacts

Explores the importance and impacts of climate change, covering global risks, the science of climate change, historical temperature records, and reasons for concern.