The program addresses highly relevant economic issues in today’s modern economies such as the environmental impacts of cities, the determinants of location choice of economic activities in urban, periurban and rural areas, the advantages and disadvantages of spatial agglomeration in terms of economic efficiency, equity and environment, the design of local economic development policies and place-based transportation and environmental policies.

Students will learn to tackle all these problems with a level of theoretical abstraction and will be able to design and implement relevant empirical studies with specialized techniques relevant for georeferenced data : spatial statistics and spatial econometrics.

The DASEE program will offer possibility for graduates to undertake PhD research in spatial economics,environmental economics or spatial data analysis as it provides expert skills in theoretical and empiricaleconomics. This will lead to recruitments in academia or in the public/private sectors, environmentalconsultancies, government, non-governmental organizations and multinational companies.