PhD Program Science and Management of Climate Change

Ca’ Foscari University of Venice

Environmental and climate change economics

The course gives students a methodological background in environmental and climate change economics, focusing on (i) the economic theory of market failures and environmental externalities, (ii) policy instruments for climate change management iii) modelling tools (integrated assessment models) that can be used to evaluate and design climate policies.
It will teach students to: understand, synthesize and communicate the problem of climate change as an economic problem; understand and apply different economic methods to analyze and design innovative climate policy solutions for mitigation and adaptation.