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 | Hands on with Ecosystem services - Part 2 | Chaplin-Kramer et al. (2019) | |||
| 2025-09-30 | Hands on with Computable General Equilibrium - Part 1 | Shoven and Whalley (1984) | |||
| 2025-10-02 | Hands on with Computable General Equilibrium - Part 2 | Corong et al. (2017) | |||
| 2025-10-06 | Linking models of land-use change modeling, ecosystem services and macroeconomy | Verburg and Overmars (2009) | |||
| 2025-10-08 | GTAP-InVEST | Johnson et al. (2023) | |||
| 2025-10-14 | Topics within CGEs, Gridded Economic Analysis, National scale, R&D | Baldos et al. (2019), Baldos et al. (2020) | |||
| 2025-10-16 | Season Finale and Student Presentations |