Dr Simon Dietz

This course is compulsory on the MSc in Environmental Economics and Climate Change. This course is available on the MSc in Environment and Development and MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation. This course is available with permission as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit.

This course is an interdisciplinary analysis of the issue of climate change. It will begin with an overview of the science of climate change, which will be accessible to students training in the social sciences. It will go on to consider the economic, political and social implications of climate change, drawing on economic analysis, as well as insights from other disciplines such as human geography and political science.

20 hours of lectures and 5 hours of seminars in the MT.

Students will write one essay (unassessed), on which they will receive written feedback. The essay serves as a mock exam, there is no word limit, but students should time themselves to write it in 50 minutes.

Detailed reading lists will be provided to support each course component.

The following texts will be particularly useful: Stern, N. (2009). Blueprint
for a Safer Planet. London, The Bodley Head; Stern, N. (2007). The
Economics of Climate Change: the Stern Review. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press; Aldy, J. E. and R. N. Stavins (2007). Architectures for
Agreement: Addressing Global Climate Change in the Post-Kyoto World.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press; Maslin, M. (2004). Global Warming: a
Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Exam (100%, duration: 2 hours) in the main exam period.