GY100: Environment, Economy and Society - Economy Section (Academic Year 2010/2011)

Course lectured by Dr Riccardo Crescenzi

This course provides students with an introduction to Geography at LSE. The global population faces critical policy choices now and in the future including climate change and persistent economic and social inequality in an increasingly globalized world. This course examines critical elements of these challenges to the environment, the economy and society. In doing so, it will cover the temporal (from the near-term to the far-off future) and geographical dimensions (from local to global) and provide students with key theoretical concepts, empirical evidence and analysis of policy responses at these different levels. The economy section deals with the changing location of economic activity, inequalities within and between countries, regions and cities and discusses the rationale, objectives and tools of local and regional development policies in a globalizing world.

GY447: The Economics of Regional and Urban Planning - Economics Course (Academic Year 2010/2011)

Course lectured by Prof Christine Whitehead and Dr Gabriel Ahlfeldt

The overall course aims to enable students to use and integrate economic, political, geographic and administrative analyses to address questions about the operation and organisation of urban and regional systems and to analyse and assess relevant policy. The economics course aims to ensure that both those with little background in economics and those who already have a degree in the subject can apply economic concepts and techniques to these questions.

GY321: Environmental Politics and Policy (Academic Year 2009/2010)

Course lectured by Dr Carmen Marchiori and Dr Michael Mason

This course examines the issues, actors and processes that shape the nature of environmental policy and politics at different geographic scales. It begins with an introduction to environmental regulation, then considers the idea of a shift from government to governance. Different perspectives on environmental policy-making, implementation and enforcement are reviewed, with a focus on the selection and application of different policy instruments. A recurrent theme of the course concerns how policy choices are informed and shaped by political considerations. Students are introduced to case study material at different levels and scales of environmental policy and politics, with Lent Term teaching focused on international environmental governance. Issues and problems discussed in lectures and classes vary according to the changing and contested priorities of contemporary environmental policy and politics.

EC240: Environmental Economics & Sustainable Development (LSE Summer School 2009 and 2010)

Course lectured by Prof Eric Neumayer

Environmental economics is a comparatively young, but by now well-established, branch of economics, which has attracted more and more students. In successfully applying standard microeconomic analysis to the field of the natural environment and sustainable development, economists have challenged many erroneous, but strongly held, preconceptions of policy makers and environmentalists alike. This course aims to provide students with a sound knowledge and understanding of the major fundamental results of environmental economics.

The topics covered include:

• Environmental externalities and the theory of market failure
• Economics of pollution control
• Economics of natural resource use
• Economics of sustainable development
• Valuation of environmental resources
• Economics of international environmental problems
• Economics of climate change

Econometrics Tutorial using STATA for REEF students (Nov 2009 - Mar 2010)

A hands-on econometric tutorial for a group of Real Estate Economics and Finance master students. The aim of the course is to provide an application-oriented introduction to econometrics and enable the students to carry out a research project using STATA.

The topics covered include:

• Introduction to STATA
• OLS
• Estimation of hedonic price functions
• Estimation methods for binary dependent variables
• Panel data
• Differences-in-differences estimation
• Instrumental variables/ 2SLS