Regional Energy-Environmental Economic Modeling
MIT OpenCourseWare seminar on building spatial models of energy and environmental economics at the regional level, rather than surveying general policy debates. The syllabus opens with green accounting methods, then moves through theoretical and empirical topics in spatial energy demand and supply, energy forecasting, national and regional price differences, and the environmental effects of regional energy production and consumption. Because it runs as a seminar, students are expected to bring in readings and propose topics, so the material builds collaboratively across the term rather than following a fixed lecture sequence. Course materials include the syllabus, readings list, and topic outlines published by MIT OpenCourseWare, free to access under MIT's open licensing, with no certificate offered. Best suited to students with prior grounding in economics or regional planning who want a research-oriented, discussion-driven treatment of energy and environmental modeling.