NPTEL : NOC:Conservation Economics (Biotechnology)

Co-ordinators : Dr. Ankur Awadhiya


Lecture 1 - Introduction to the Course, Making Decisions - I

Lecture 2 - Making Decisions - II and Interactions - I

Lecture 3 - Intecractions-II and Working of the Economy

Lecture 4 - Conservation in the Anthropocene

Lecture 5 - Human population growth and food requirements

Lecture 6 - Unsustainable development

Lecture 7 - Climate change

Lecture 8 - Plastics

Lecture 9 - Oil spills and mining

Lecture 10 - Push and pull factors: Localisation of species

Lecture 11 - Threats to species

Lecture 12 - Developmental Hazards and Ecotoxicology

Lecture 13 - Need to understand controls

Lecture 14 - Thinking as an Economist

Lecture 15 - Interdependence and gains from trade

Lecture 16 - Demand and supply

Lecture 17 - Elasticity

Lecture 18 - Government policy

Lecture 19 - Surplus and market efficiency

Lecture 20 - Market Efficiency and Cost of Taxation

Lecture 21 - International Trade

Lecture 22 - Externalities

Lecture 23 - Public goods and common resources

Lecture 24 - The design of the tax system

Lecture 25 - The Costs of Production

Lecture 26 - Competition

Lecture 27 - Monopoly

Lecture 28 - Markets for factors of production

Lecture 29 - Earnings and discrimination

Lecture 30 - Income inequality and poverty

Lecture 31 - Consumer choice

Lecture 32 - Asymmetric information, Politics and Behavioural Economics

Lecture 33 - Valuation of natural resources

Lecture 34 - Economics of Protected Areas

Lecture 35 - Economics of Environmental Disasters - 1

Lecture 36 - Economics of Environmental Disasters - 2