Economic evaluation and adaptation to climate change

  • ECTS

    120 credits

  • Duration

    2 years

  • Training structure

    Faculty of Economics

  • Language(s) of instruction

    French

Presentation

Around a central base of evaluation methods, various themes have been introduced over time, in particular to introduce the issue of consultation and policy acceptability, as well as behavioral economics to understand endogenous incentives in the field of environmental policies. In addition to the developments linked to the introduction of sustainable development and integrated and participatory policies, the recent acuteness of the challenges of climate change has generated new needs.

The M1 courses are very strongly shared with the Public Economics and Environment course as well as at the level of the mention or several courses in terms of econometrics and multivariate analysis tools. In particular, in M1, spread over the two semesters and common to the whole field, we note an application exercise aiming at empowering students in the analysis of a question and the operational mobilization of econometric tools called PIR (individual research project), successfully experimented for 5 years.

The integration of modules specific to adaptation and evaluation takes place at the level of M2 courses, with strong mutualizations with the Health Systems Economics course for evaluation courses or the EPE, Energy Economics and Ecodeva courses on environmental issues.

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Know-how and skills

The field of expertise is evaluation engineering and territorial engineering.

Foresight practices, vulnerability assessment as well as more generic skills on tools and conditions for adaptive management and on measuring adaptive capacities at different scales.

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Organization

Program

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  • Your choice: 1 of 2

    • Spanish 1

    • English

  • Optional

    • Optional Spanish Semester 1

    • English optional Semester 1

  • Introduction SAS

  • Project management and financial evaluation

    3 credits
  • Econometrics

  • Introduction to R software

    1 credits
  • Development economics

    4 credits
  • Environmental economics

  • PIR

  • Public economics

    3 credits
  • Survey methods

  • Optional

    • English optional Semester 2

    • Spanish optional Semester 2

    • UM Student Engagement

  • Your choice: 1 of 2

    • English

      2 credits
    • Spanish 2

      2 credits
  • Cognitive functions (UM3)

  • Corporate social responsibility

    4 credits
  • Geopolitics of energy

    3 credits
  • Economics of risk and uncertainty

  • Excel VBA

    3 credits
  • Governance of natural resources

    4 credits
  • Econometrics of qualitative variables

    4 credits
  • PIR

    5 credits
  • Data analysis

    3 credits
  • Behavioral economics

  • Double-difference methods

    3 credits
  • Public economic calculation

    3 credits
  • Topics in experimental and behevorial economics

    3 credits
  • Public policy evaluation

    3 credits
  • Outlook and climate

    3 credits
  • Measuring well-being in assessment methods

    2 credits
  • Environmental information and labels

    3 credits
  • Statistical method

    3 credits
  • Climate and energy transition economics

    3 credits
  • Evaluation of non-market effects

    3 credits
  • Choice experiment

  • Memory

    15 credits
  • Low-carbon innovation

    3 credits
  • Political economy of environmental policy

    2 credits
  • Graphics

  • Consultation method

  • Response to calls for tender

  • Examples: Scot de transition energétique and cost analysis

  • Regional vulnerability

    4 credits
  • Modeling support in the face of climatic hazards

    2 credits

Admission

Conditions of access

Capacity

20 students in M1

20 students in M2

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And then

Further studies

Students will be able to enroll in a doctoral program following the master's degree by developing (i) either their mastery of evaluation tools on various issues (ii) or their knowledge of specific issues related to adaptation to CC.

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Professional integration

The career opportunities will be very numerous and diversified, depending on the types of organizations targeted.

In international organizations (UNDP, UNEP, FAO, WEF, World Bank, OECD...) these issues are at the heart of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the impact of climate events on livelihoods, which are two strong axes of the projects developed by these institutions.

In local authorities, consultancies, NGOs, government departments, but also consular chambers and producers' organizations, there is a very wide diversity of fields of application relating to (i) the adaptation of sectors (e.g. agriculture to drought) or territories (coastal areas to rising sea levels or ski resorts to global warming), (ii) the management of specific risks (e.g. floods, heat islands in cities) and generally (iii) the modalities of public action and the acceptability of these policies with specificities regarding the types of measures (e.g. nature-based solutions) or tools (e.g. climate change)....) as well as more generally (iii) concerning the modalities of public action and the acceptability of these policies with specificities regarding the types of measures (e.g. nature-based solutions) or the tools to take into account the cumulative impacts or the long time ...

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