At NHH: Natural Resource Management and Policy
NHH, the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration is offering a Master level course in Natural Resource Management from 22 June to 8 July.
The summer course will be delivered by NHH faculty along with guest lecturers from other academic institutions and the business community. The programme has been developed and organised in partnership with a range of companies actives in the industries examined on the course, and company visits and case studies form a major part of the course schedule.
The companies involved in the course include Statoil, Hydro, McKinsey and Company, Bergen Energi and the Norwegian Competition Authority.
How to be resource rich and successful
Norway is abundantly endowed with natural resources and the utilisation of its resource base has strongly influenced the industrial structure, foreign trade, economic development and welfare of the country. The country has not suffered many of the curses that plague other resource-rich countries, such as corruption or the "Dutch disease". Norway has consistently been ranked by the UN as the best country in the world to live in, and the World Economic Forum has ranked Norway as one of the top 20 most competitive countries globally.
Norway is particularly rich in energy resources (oil, natural gas and water for hydro power production), fish, timber, and some minerals, including thorium as a potential resource base for new technologies of nuclear power generation. The small size of the country (population 4.6 million), ist geographic location on the outskirts of Europe, its political and social system and the high regard its people have for preserving the natural environment, have generated some special approaches to, and institutional arrangements for, the Norwegian natural resource and environmental management regime.
For students interested in making a difference
The graduate summer school in Natural resource management and policy: The Norwegian Model will cover important aspects of natural resource management and policy regimes, examining the whole length of the resource value chain, from exploration and production to end-use, and the economic "value chain", from macroeconomic aspects via sectors and markets to the firms and consumers at the micro level.
The course is aimed at MBA and MSc students from all over the world who have an interest in natural and environmental economics, and is in partnership with NHHs international network. Participants will be brought together in Bergen, Norway for a series of lectures, company visits, case discussions and group projects, along with a programme of social events.
Application deadline
Please note that the deadline for applications to the graduate summer course Natural resource management and policy: The Norwegian Model is 1 April 2007.
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