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MODULE INTRODUCTION
Increasing environmental awareness and the growing need for compliance with environmental standards makes this a very useful forum for professionals in both the public sector and the private sector.

The main aim of the module is to introduce the participants to current concepts and methods in environmental economics. At the end of the module the participants are expected to have a good appreciation of how environmental issues can be analyzed and how environmental policies could be formulated.

This module will deal with the analysis of environmental issues at both the microeconomic as well as the macroeconomic levels. Further it is structured and delivered on the premise that the participants have very little background in economics.

Important concepts will be illustrated with reference to cases and illustration sets which would include:

• Management of Urban Air-Quality

• Tradable Pollution Permits

• “Green Homes” and “Green Cities”

• Markets for Environmental Services

• Lifestyles and Sustainability

• Macroeconomic Policies for Sustainable Development

• Environmental Capital Investments

• Environmental Education

WHAT YOU WILL LEARN

• The linkages between the environment and the economy

• Markets, Property Rights and the Environment

• Market Failure and Environmental Goods and Services

• Valuation of Environmental Goods and Service

• Economic Instruments for the Environment

• Macroeconomics and the Environment

• Macroeconomics and the Environment – Investment and Depreciation

• Macroeconomic Frameworks for Sustainable Development

• Case Studies and Illustrations

• Policy Analysis

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

• Policy makers from Government Agencies. Agencies include Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, National Environment Agency, Public Utilities Board, Ministry of Transport, Land Transport Authority, Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Urban Redevelopment Authority, Singapore Land Authority, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Finance.

• Environmental NGOs

• Decision makers, Executives and Managers involve in leading CSR and sustainable development initiatives in their organisations

• Programme participants should preferably have 3-5 years of working experience and hold a basic degree.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Professor Dodo Thampapillai holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics at Macquarie University (Australia) and is currently attached to the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore. His expertise includes Public Sector Economics, Development Economics, Project Appraisal and Operations Research.

About the Environmental Management Executive Programme

Last updated on 25 Jun 08