Economics · Unit 2 · Case options of market measures and strategies · Case options of market measures and strategies

Analyse and evaluate environmental economic issues, e.g. - the private/social costs versus private/social benefits of environmental degradation to determine socially optimal levels of production and/or consumption, in words and diagrammatic forms - government strategies and/or interventions to redress environmental degradation and significant measures to achieve economic and ecological sustainability, e.g. a carbon tax and other fiscal methods to reduce emissions, quotas on resource extraction, and rehabilitation charges.

Learning objective 1 of 17 in this subtopic