Energy Policy|Engineering for International Development|Innovation and Enterprise|Public Policy and Administration|Sustainability|Technology

Over 1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to modern energy services. At the same time, net energy use in many developing countries is rapidly increasing as...

Over 1.3 billion people worldwide lack access to modern energy services. At the same time, net energy use in many developing countries is rapidly increasing as a result of industrialisation, population growth and economic development. Developing nations have an opportunity to forge new development pathways by harnessing clean energy technologies to address both energy poverty and the rising environmental impact of energy use. This course examines many of the technical, institutional and policy challenges related to the delivery of accessible, affordable and appropriate sustainable energy services and technologies in developing countries. There is an emphasis on access to sustainable energy for the rural and urban poor, but also attention given to international technology transfer, capacity development and financing for sustainable energy projects. Issues of sustainable energy innovation, policy and development will be explored through in depth case studies of developing country contexts as well as individual projects. At the end of the course, students will be able to design, implement and assess sustainable energy policies, programs and projects.

Aims - This module aims to provide a thorough understanding of core concepts and methods of microeconomics and macroeconomics to second year students on...

Economics 2 (Combined Studies) (STAT0001)

Aims - This module aims to provide a thorough understanding of core concepts and methods of microeconomics and macroeconomics to second year students on combined-studies programmes with a high quantitative content, and to prepare these students for optional courses in economics taken in the third year.

Objectives - On successful completion of the module, students should: understand the main elements of microeconomic and macroeconomic theory at a level appropriate for an economics graduate; understand economic models and problems expressed in standard mathematical terms and be able to solve and interpret problems based on such models at a level of difficulty appropriate for an economics graduate; be able to use economic concepts and methods to analyse and interpret real-world economic phenomena; be able to assess issues of economic policy.

Content - Microeconomics (consumers and producers): Consumer choice (budget constraints, preferences and utility, revealed preference, Slutsky equation, indirect-utility and expenditure functions, consumer surplus and price indices); choice under uncertainty; firm behaviour (technology and production functions, profit maximisation and factor demands, cost functions, conditional factor demands, cost curves). Microeconomics (markets and equilibrium): Market demand; exchange equilibrium; competitive markets (short- and long-run behaviour); monopoly; price discrimination; oligopoly models; game theory. Macroeconomics (growth and fluctuations): Economic growth (Solow-Swan model, technological progress).

Key texts - Available from ReadingLists@UCL.

This module is taught by staff based in the Departments of Mathematics and Statistical Science, but has been designed and is delivered in collaboration with the Department of Economics. In particular, the formal assessment arrangements are overseen by the Economics Board of Examiners.