MASTER OF ECONOMICS

Public economics and the environment

COURSE PRESENTATION MEETING :

The meeting will take place on February 7, 2024 at 1 p.m. Amphi 319

This meeting can be followed by video :

• Presentation Master EPE

Faced with the growing pressure of human activities on the environment, our societies are called upon to resolve difficult trade-offs. These involve both explicit costs and diffuse damage, as well as benefits that are unevenly distributed between players and generations. Economic analysis is designed to help public, associative and private decision-makers in this field. This course provides an in-depth understanding of the economics of the environment and natural resources, as well as public economics, i.e. the economic study of the collective choice process. These are two complementary areas of economic science, on the basis of which the economist can formulate proposals that are both economically efficient and politically acceptable. The course is supported by a team of teacher-researchers and researchers specializing in these issues, who are members of the Centre d'Économie de l'Environnement de Montpellier.

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Economic evaluation and adaptation to climate change

Around a central core of evaluation methods, various themes have been introduced over time, notably to introduce the issues of consultation and policy acceptability, as well as behavioral economics to understand endogenous incentives in the field of environmental policies. In addition to developments linked to the introduction of sustainable development and integrated, participative policies, the recent acuteness of climate change issues is generating new needs.

The M1 courses are very much shared with the Public Economics and the Environment course, as are the econometrics and multivariate analysis tools used by the entire program or several courses. In particular, in M1, spread over the two semesters and common to the whole course, there is an application exercise designed to empower students in the analysis of an issue and the operational mobilization of econometric tools, known as PIR (projet individuel de recherche), which has been successfully tested for the past 5 years.

Specific modules on adaptation and evaluation are integrated into M2 courses, with strong mutualization with the Health Systems Economics course for evaluation courses, and with the EPE, Energy Economics and Ecodeva courses for environmental issues.

Presentation of the course on the Faculty of Economics Youtube channel:

• Master's degree in economic evaluation and adaptation to climate change

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Saving energy

Created in 1992 by Professor Jacques Percebois, the Energy Economics program at the University of Montpellier has been training applied economists specializing in energy issues for over thirty years. It provides students with the skills they need to understand the issues and anticipate the consequences of the structural transformations facing the energy sector: decarbonization and decentralization of production methods, changes in energy market and pricing models, development of new energy uses... 

The Master's program maintains close ties with public and private players in the energy sector, who regularly take part in conferences, professional seminars and consulting projects, enabling students to apply their skills to meet the concrete needs of the sector.

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Health systems economics

The Economics of Healthcare Systems program is part of the Economics Master's degree offered by the Faculty of Economics, in the Law-Economy-Management field.

The course focuses on economic issues in healthcare systems. The aging of the population and technical advances in healthcare are generating major transformations in the organization of care and the financing of healthcare systems. This implies a more integrated definition of patient pathways and trajectories, and the emergence of new players and tools to regulate healthcare provision.

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Digital economy

The Digital Economy pathway offers enhanced skills in the organization of telecoms, Internet and media markets, the strategies of digital companies and the regulatory frameworks that apply to digital markets.

The program is taught by professors and lecturers specialized in digital economics. The courses and seminars provide a wealth of technical skills, particularly in data processing and analysis, as well as in-depth knowledge of the strategies implemented by digital players: traditional telecoms, Internet and media companies, online service platforms and social networks.

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• Master in Digital Economy

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Economics and psychology

The aim of this course is to train experimentalists/behaviorists capable of managing an experimental project from conception to practical implementation, whether in the laboratory or in the field.

Students will be involved in experimental projects and will be invited to carry out their own projects. Training is both theoretical and practical.

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Mediterranean Farming system design for a Sustainable food-system (MIDAS)

The MIDAS course follows on from intensive training courses organized since 2010 by CIHEAM-IAMM in partnership with several Mediterranean agronomic research and teaching institutes, and with the global FSD (Farming System Design) network. Over 300 international participants have been trained. Until now, these intensive courses were designed to train young scientists to analyze and assess the sustainability of agricultural systems using integrated approaches. The original feature of the MIDAS course, which will draw on several teaching aids as well as the network of researchers mobilized as part of the intensive training courses, will be to evolve to address questions linked to the design of agricultural systems based on the challenges of food and climate change, and to give pride of place to the role of diversity (both of cropping systems, farms and stakeholders in the field) in improving the resilience of the food function of these systems in the face of climate change and market uncertainties.

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Regional Agricultural Development, Environment and Modeling (DATEM)

This course is in response to a request from the Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture, and the Faculty of Agronomy at the Lebanese University, to train engineers to meet the new challenges that Lebanon is already facing: scarcity of resources, climate change and market instability marked by fairly strong regional tensions. The program has two key components in terms of skills not currently available in Lebanon: i) agricultural systems modeling, to design systems that are resilient in the face of climatic uncertainties and socio-economic conditions, and ii) the integration of environmental issues into the evaluation of agricultural system performance. This pathway is particularly important for students from the southern Mediterranean (and especially Lebanon), as it is unique in this field (multi-criteria analysis by modeling, territorial agricultural development, environment). The course is designed in particular to respond to the new restructuring of the agricultural sector on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, with the establishment of territorial extension centers, and to better match the profiles of future engineers for the Ministries of Agriculture and local authorities. >> Find out more

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Economics - Political Science "Governance of Societies and Territories in Transition

The Economics-Political Science bi-disciplinary Master's course entitled "Governance of Societies and Territories in Transition" (GSTT) is a continuation of the Economics-Political Science bi-licence, created in 2021 within the University of Montpellier, which offers students a high-level training in these two disciplines. As an extension to this, this Master's program is open to students with a solid background in the social sciences, particularly Economics and Political Science. It will prepare students for careers in the future or in evolving sectors.

The content of the Master's degree in economics and political science has been designed to address the major issues transforming the organization of our societies and territories: energy and ecological transitions, transport and mobility, healthcare, digital technology... but also democratic or cultural transitions and institutional evolutions.

This multi-disciplinary Master's program, unique in France, brings together the University of Montpellier's economics and political science teams in a balanced way.

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