3 ECTS credits
75 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4022997ENR for all students in the 2nd semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
English
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculty of Sciences and Bioengineering Sciences
Department
Geography
External partners
KU Leuven
Educational team
Decaan WE (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
20 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

This course deals with the exploitation of renewable and non-renewable natural resources
and stock pollution problems.
We use bio-economic models to investigate optimal exploitation decisions for the use of
renewable resources. We investigate the economic and environmental sustainability
implications of these exploitation decisions. We analyse the implications of different
property regimes for sustainable resource exploitation and investigate the policy options
for sustainable resource management. We use examples from different resources systems,
such as fisheries and forests.
We study the theory of optimal non-renewable resources extraction and of related dynamic
stock pollution problems. 

Additional info

see KUL

Learning Outcomes

General competences

 Students understand the resource use decisions of different actors in biological production
systems. They understand the interactions between natural resource conservation,
biological production and economic optimization. They can build bio-economic models from
biological and economic components. They can optimize bio-economic models and derive
policy implications.

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • other Exam with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: This course is organised by KULeuven. For more details, see:

    http://onderwijsaanbod.kuleuven.be/syllabi/e/G0I83AE.htm

Additional info regarding evaluation

see KUL

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Geography: Standard track