BSc Environment and Sustainable Development with Economics

This degree provides a thorough grounding in environmental change and sustainable development, combined with rigorous economics training.

The teaching goes far beyond pure academic theory – you’ll learn why policy issues matter and see first-hand the impact of our research on the real world. There’s also an opportunity to participate in an international field trip.

You’ll be taught by leading experts who are influencing national government and international policy debates.

When you graduate, you’ll be well prepared for a career in the third sector, banking, consulting or many international organisations.

This is a major/minor programme – with a 75/25 split between geography and economics.

Environment

• N Castree Making Sense of Nature (Routledge, 2013).
• S Chant and C McIlwaine Geographies of Development in the 21st Century: an introduction to the Global South (Edward Elgar, 2009)
• J Elliot An Introduction to Sustainable Development (4th edition, Routledge, 2012)
• J P Evans Environmental Governance (Routledge, 2012)
• A S Goudie The Human Impact on the Natural World: past, present and future (7th edition, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
• N Klein This Changes Everything: capitalism vs. the climate (Simon & Schuster, 2014)
• D Pearce and B Barbier Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy (Earthscan, 2000)
• D Simpson, M Toman and R U Ayres Scarcity and Growth Revisited (Resources for the Future, 2005)
• M Whitehead Environmental Transformations: a geography of the anthropocene (Routledge, 2014)

Economics

• A V Banerjee and E Duflo Poor Economics: barefoot hedge-fund managers, DIY doctors and the surprising truth about life on less than $1 a day (Penguin, 2012)
• T Harford The Undercover Economist (Abacus, 2007)
• T Harford The Logic of Life (Little Brown, 2009)
• P Krugman End This Depression Now! (W W Norton, 2012)
• S D Levitt and S J Dubner Freakonomics (Penguin, 2007)
• S D Levitt and S J Dubner Superfreakonomics(Penguin, 2010)

The UK launch of these books was held at LSE and there are podcasts of these authors speaking in the Old Theatre. Listen to the podcasts of these and other talks.

You might also want to have a look at one or more economics textbooks, to have a clear idea of what the serious university study of the subject involves, which will differ from these popular presentations. Although the texts and editions listed below are currently recommended for the first year, other editions of these books and other university-level textbooks are also entirely valid for this first investigation.

• N G Mankiw Macroeconomics (7th edition, Worth Publishers, 2010)
• W Morgan, M L Katz and H Rosen Microeconomics (2nd edition, McGraw-Hill, 2009)