Numbering Code	U-AGR04 3D305 LJ43	Year/Term	2022 ・ First semester
Number of Credits	2	Course Type	Lecture
Target Year	3rd year students	Target Student
Language	Japanese	Day/Period	Fri.1
Instructor name	KURIYAMA KOUICHI (Graduate School of Agriculture Professor)
Outline and Purpose of the Course	This course contains lectures on issues related to forests, forestry, and human society, focusing on the present state of and problems with forest policy from an economic viewpoint. It includes analysis of the present state of forest resources, supply and demand for wood, environmental value of forests and systems for their protection, forests and global environmental problems, etc. This course explains the methodology of basic economics and how to apply it to forest policy to solve these problems.
Course Goals	To acquire basic knowledge on forests and forestry problems and understand economic analysis techniques for analyzing forest and environmental problems.
Schedule and Contents	Lectures will be conducted according to the following schedule, although the contents may be changed depending on the level of understanding of the students. Videos relating to the contents of the lectures will be shown in every lecture. Students will be asked to submit a review sheet at the end of the course to ascertain their grasp of the course contents. 1) Introduction 2) World forest resources 3) Japan's forest resources 4) Wood demand and consumer theory 5) Wood supply and production theory 6) Wood market and value analysis 7) Loss of tropical forests and market failure 8) Multifunctionality of forests and public goods 9) Forest protection policy 10) Forest and national park policy 11) Value of forests 12) Value assessment of eco-tourism 13) Value assessment of ecosystem 14) Forests and global warming countermeasures 15) Feedback
Evaluation Methods and Policy	Evaluation is based on the final examination scores (60% weightage) and class performance scores (40% weightage). Refer to current year's 'Guide to Degree Programs' for attainment levels of evaluation.
Course Requirements	Nothing in particular
Study outside of Class (preparation and review)	Read the reference materials before the lecture and use the books introduced during the course to review.
Textbooks	Textbooks/References	Environmental Economics, K. Kuriyama and S. Managi, (Routledge, 2016), ISBN:1138960691
References, etc.	永田 信 『林政学講義』 (東京大学出版会) ISBN:4130720651 http://kkuri.eco.coocan.jp/research/EnvEconTextKM/index.html
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