Environmental and Energy Economics University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Overview

Key Features

The Environmental and Energy Economics programme offered at University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg is designed to provide a thorough understanding of economics and policies associated with climate change and broader foundation of applied microeconomics in energy, environmental and natural resources. More specifically, it applies microeconomics theory and quantitative methods to rigorously examine contemporary environmental, climate, natural resources and energy problems. 

In recent decades, environmental economics have increasingly become critically important to analyse and understand environmental, energy and climate problems and to offer the basis for designing policy solutions.

Career Opportunities

There is good reason to believe that the demand for training in environmental, resource and energy economics is high in South Africa, considering the apparent shortage of trained manpower in these fields. Graduate level training in this field is uncommon across the African continent. Currently, only a few South African Universities offer training in these fields, but commonly as an elective course only rather than as a specialization field. And yet, the plethora of environmental problems and the government’s and private sector’s  commitments to overcome them suggests the unmet demand of the expertise in these fields.