Welcome to APEC 8602: Applied Earth-Economy Modeling!

Location: Ruttan Hall B22 (preferred) or online via Zoom (contact me to get link)

Timing: Tuesdays and Thursdays, 8:45-10:00am CT, from September 2 to October 16.

Github repo: https://github.com/jandrewjohnson/apec_8602_2025

Syllabus: syllabus.html

Google drive (email me if you need access): https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14tJubCW5hm3T6cMYwTDElNsvxk1rptgS?usp=sharing

Video playlist for all lectures: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLir2vw2cQ_Nsn_zNtX050t5Y49YkxcNRt

Schedule

This will be updated as we proceed. If there’s not a link to a resource yet, it is not finalized yet and might change.

Date Title Required Reading(s) Video Slides Assignments
2025-09-02 01 - Big Picture and Syllabus Introduction 01 01
2025-09-04 02 - Introduction to Earth-Economy Modeling Johnson et al. (2025) 02 02 Assignment 01 - Gitting up to Speed. Due 2025-09-09.
2025-09-09 03 - National Sustainability in General Equilibrium Banerjee et al. (2025) also skim the Supplemental Info, Banerjee et al. (2020) 03 03 Assignment 02 - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in 1 hour. Due 2025-09-16.
2025-09-11 04 - Scenarios for the Future and Land-use Change Modeling Hurtt et al. (2020) and Popp et al. (2017) 04 04
2025-09-16 05 - Hands on with Climate IAMs Nordhaus 2017, Moore et al. 2022 05 05prep, 05
2025-09-18 06 - Inclusive Wealth Polasky et al. (2015) 06 06 Assignment 03 - Rolling the DICE. Due 2025-09-30.
2025-09-23 07 - Hands on with Ecosystem Services - Part 1 Polasky and Segerson (2009) 07 07
2025-09-25 08 - Hands on with Ecosystem services - Part 2 Chaplin-Kramer et al. (2019) 08 08 Assignment 04 - Ecosystem Service Policy Analysis. Due 2025-10-7.
2025-09-30 09 - Introduction to Computable General Equilibrium Shoven and Whalley (1984) 09 09
2025-10-02 10 - Hands on with CGE (Computable General Equilibrium) Corong et al. (2017) 10 10 Assignment 05 - Computable CGE in General Equilibrium. Due 2025-10-14.
2025-10-06 11 - Land-use Change Prediction Verburg and Overmars (2009) 11 11 Final Project 1-2 sentence description due.
2025-10-08 12 - Hands on with LUC modelling von Jeetze et al. (2023) 12 12 Final Project outline due.
2025-10-14 13 - GTAP-InVEST Johnson et al. (2023) 13 13 Final project peer-review due.
2025-10-16 Season Finale and Student Presentations Final project due.