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on 21-Oct-02 08:11 AM
Hi all,
This may be of interest to some Sajha folks.
oohi
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ashu
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DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS
School of Economics and Commercial Law
Göteborg University
Göteborg 15th October, 2002
Dear Sir/Madam
In brief
With the support of Sida, the Environmental Economics Unit
(EEU) of Göteborg University, Sweden is happy to invite ap-
plications to two PhD courses: one on Natural Resource Economics
and the second on Environmental Economics and Policy Making.
The courses will be given during spring of 2003, please see
closer description below. Eight full scholarships for each
course will be given to economists from developing countries
with a strong economics background and that are likely to apply
these skills in further capacity building. The deadline for
applications is 15th November 2002. Applications to both
courses is possible.
Background
The EEU has a long-term collaboration with the Swedish
International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) regarding
capacity building in environmental economics in developing
countries.
The Ph.D. program includes a sequence of four five-week
specialization courses. Next year, two such specialisation
courses will be given and they are open to external
participants.
The purpose of inviting external participants is to strengthen
the capacity in respective country in environmental economics.
The capacity is then expected to be applied in teaching and
supervision in university departments. However, the build-up
of research and consulting capacity is an important secondary
goal.
Both the following courses are second year full time PhD
courses during spring of 2003 given at the Department of
Economics, Göteborg University. Dates given below are indicative
and actual course dates might differ slightly.
Natural Resource Economics (24th February - 28th March)
This course is intended to give an overview of natural resource
economics with particular emphasis on resources that are
important in a developing country context. It is an advanced
graduate course and is a fairly complicated, technical course.
The course will explain how natural resources would be used in
an "optimal" allocation and how they tend to be allocated in
real economies with different types of ownership patterns, market
or state planning.
The course will be taught by Peter
Parks, Gardner Brown, Thomas Sterner and a number of prominent
guest lecturers.
Environmental Economics and Policy Making (31st March - 2nd May)
This course is intended to give an overview of environmental
economics particularly as it relates to the formulation of
environmental policies. It is an advanced graduate course. The
course will recapitulate some of the basic reasons why economic
policies are needed in the environmental area. It will then
focus on the different properties of various policy instruments
and the choice between them.
Typical policy instruments include
technology standards, tradable permits, environmental taxes
and subsidies but also include tax-subsidy combinations such
as deposit refunds schemes, refunded emission payments and
various kinds of information provision, eco-labelling, liability
rules and other forms of market or property right creation.
Emphasis will be placed on a broad set of criteria for policy
choice that starts with the traditional static and dynamic
efficiency but also includes distributional and other criteria
related to the political economy of instrument design. The main
topical focus will be on traditional pollution but to green
issues such as natural resource management will also be covered.
Main lecturer: Professor Thomas Sterner. Guest lecturers include
Per Fredriksson.
For more details on both courses please check our web site
at
http://www.handels.gu.se/econ/EEU
Formal training: Either a PhD in economics without earlier
exposure to the material covered in these courses or the
equivalent of a good master's degree with some extra merits
such as teaching experience (preferably in environmental or
micro economics), additional courses or research experience
and finally, very good knowledge of English. The Natural
Resource course requires a strong background in mathematical
economics.
Interests: Naturally it is also crucial that the candidate
has a vivid interest in natural resources and environmental
issues and practical experience of agricultural economics,
health, forestry or another area relevant to environmental
economics.
Duties: It is particularly desirable if the candidate is already,
or in the near future will be teaching courses in environmental
economics, for instance at the undergraduate level.
Practical Arrangements
There is no fee for any of the courses nor for the literature
and we will pay the (cheapest available) airfare as well as
provide simple (student type) accommodation. We also offer
the visiting guests an allowance of SEK 7 000 (around 700 USD
at present) to cover their personal expenses.
It is advised that participants should arrive a few days prior
to the start of the course. Participants will be supplied with
a return air ticket, economy class, that will be issued in their
names and deposited at least one week before departure at the
nearest airline office.
Yours sincerely,
Prof Thomas Sterner
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Please send applications to
Elizabeth Földi
e-mail: eeu@economics.gu.se
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