Infrastructure and Energy Technology Challenges

Calendar

SES #	TOPICS	KEY DATES
I. The Economics of Public Goods and Infrastructure
1	Infrastructure in Crisis: History and Introduction
2	Infrastructure, Public Goods, and Market Failure
3	Infrastructure and Regulations
II. Infrastructure, Development, and Technology
4	Infrastructure Investment and Economic Growth
5	Infrastructure and Development	Reaction paper 1 due
6	Infrastructure and Regional Development
7	Infrastructure, Technologies, and Innovations
III. Infrastructure Financing, Funding, and Delivery
8	Infrastructure Financing
9	Infrastructure Funding
10	Infrastructure Delivery	Reaction paper 2 due
11	Project Financing
12	Financing Energy Infrastructure
IV. The Energy System
13	The Energy Chain and Market, Part I
14	The Energy Chain and Market, Part II
15	Issues and Challenges
V. Energy and Long-term Development
16	Energy and Economic Development	Reaction paper 3 due
17	Social Development and Sustainability Aspects
VI. Energy Infrastructure
18	Energy Infrastructure: Needs and Urgencies in the United States
19	Energy Infrastructure in Emerging and Other Advanced Economies
VII. Energy Security Issues
20	Disruptions to Energy Supply
21	Infrastructure Protection, Natural Disasters, and Terrorist Threats
VIII. Energy Security and Food Security Intertwined
22	Food vs. Fuel?	Reaction paper 4 due
23	Emerging Issues and Policy Implications
IX. The Political Economy of Energy
24	Regulations, Constraints, and Political Processes of Energy Infrastructure
25–26	Student Presentations	Final paper due