1. Ecological Economics Lecture 01 Syllabus for 2009-10
6º encontro Nacional de Ecologia, 3 de Novembro de 2001, Lisboa
Doctoral Program and Advanced Degree in Sustainable Energy Systems Doctoral Program in Mechanical Engineering Doctoral Program in Environmental Engineering
Ecological Economics Lecture 01 Syllabus for
Tiago Domingos Assistant Professor Environment and Energy Scientific Area Department of Mechanical Engineering

2. Assessment Groups of 2 students with weekly assignments: Problem sets
One week projects
Multiple week projects

3. Ecological vs. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
Syllabus I
Ecological vs. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
The main issues in Ecological Economics:
Scale (ecology)
Distribution (ethics)
Efficiency (economics)
Constraints (thermodynamics)
Weak vs. strong sustainability
Ethics and welfare

4. Direct vs. Indirect Effects
Syllabus II
Direct vs. Indirect Effects
Input-Output Analysis
Life Cycle Assessment
Time
Uncertainty
Discount rate
Value
Economic
Valuation techniques
Inflation: nominal vs. real quantities
Exchange rates and purchasing power parity
Social
Biophysical

5. Syllabus III Economic growth theories
National Accounting and Macroeconomic Variables
Economic growth theories
Neoclassical and endogenous
Ayres’s theory of growth
Growth accounting
Economic theories of sustainable development
Indicators of sustainable development
Economic
Genuine Savings
Green Net National Product
Social
Human Development Index
Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare
DALY
Biophysical
Ecological Footprint
Human Appropriation of Net Primary Production
Mathematical techniques: static vs. intertemporal optimisation
Lagrangian multipliers
Optimal control theory: Pontryagin’s maximum principle