A potential discussion point on environmental economics is the concept of fairness. How environmental or social justice relates to equitable distribution or outcome. As environmental justice is a broad and evolving subject, one suggested area of study is: Can such injustice be addressed or resolved using activism.
Perhaps covering the subject by defining the types of activism historically, leading up to the present using a case study approach to identify results of various strategies - balanced perspective on what worked and what did not. Another suggestion is narrowing the focus to the globalization of specific current activism activities, such as persuading governments to change, create, or enforce laws that are the source of the injustice. Or this may interest you, use of activism to influence investors to pressure companies to apply environmentally safer and more community inclusive development activities.
Hope this assists in generating ideas. Wishing you success.
J
MSc Green Economy candidate
General interest suggestion:
Article A Framework for Developing Environmental Justice Indicators
Some of the booming futuristic topics in environmental economics are Carbon Credits, SDG13, SDG7.
I believe you need not get just some suggestions of research ideas. It'd be better to try to develop ideas by looking for ideas of relevance to potential case studies and/or help you develop a foundation for your career. To help with that, you can employ the relevance tree approach, starting with the main themes of environmental economics including economic valuation of ecosystem functions, pollution problems, or natural resources. Another theme concerns economic policy tools for dealing with environmental issues or problems. A third theme is related to the management of natural resources, whether renewable or non-renewables. Hope this could be of help.
Hi, You may explore the level of consideration of environmental valuation in the decision making process. Ideally the value of the environment (costs and benefits)should be part of the economic analysis as part of the economic decision making in investment projects. But this has not been observed widely in the Asian context. Hope this helps!!
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