Over the past decade, the concept of harnessing market forces to solve environmental problems has gained unprecedented attention at the international, national and sub-national level.
This trend highlights a paradigm shift in the politics of natural resource management, since until this point market-based instruments were assumed to be of little relevance to environmental policy.
Beginning with the acid rain (NO2 and SO2 (NOX and SOX)) trading markets in the US, market-based instruments have now been applied to a range of environmental issues from emissions, to water, to biodiversity. These instruments have included, for example, environmental taxes, subsidies and tax rebates, bilateral offset programs, credit and permit trading programs, eco-labelling and certification programs, and deposit-refund and performance bond programs. Each of these instruments has the common goal of creating a price signal through regulation, rather than imposing an explicit directive on industry, in order to modify corporative behaviour.
In this way, market-based mechanisms differ from both traditional 'command-and-control' regulation and voluntary mechanisms in the environmental arena.
The overall aim of this course is to identify the key elements of environmental markets and to understand what makes an effective, functioning market.
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If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.
- Student Contribution Band:
- 3
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $2958 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2015 | $4146 |
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