118-0358/01 – Environmental Economics (EŽP)
Gurantor department | Department of Regional and Environmental Economics | Credits | 3 |
Subject guarantor | doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D. | Subject version guarantor | doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D. |
Study level | undergraduate or graduate | Requirement | Compulsory |
Year | 3 | Semester | summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2016/2017 | Year of cancellation | 2020/2021 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Bachelor |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
The aim of the course is to educate students on the foundations of the environmental economics, the concepts of sustainable development and sustainability as well as on the alternative theories and approaches concerned with the environment and sustainable development.
Teaching methods
Tutorials
Summary
Compulsory literature:
ANDERSON, D., A. (2010). Environmental Ekonomics and Natural Resource Management. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-77900-0.
Recommended literature:
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
E-learning
Other requirements
Získané znalosti se prokazují zápočtovým testem; aktivní účast na cvičení.
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
Defining the subject, origin, history burglar alarm;
• Economics of pollution: the theory of externalities;
• Theoretical instruments of environmental policy: administrative instruments, environmental charges / taxes, subsidies, emission permits trading system, voluntary and other instruments;
• Optimizing the management of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable;
• Decisions and the environment: the issue of discounting; The method of cost-benefit analysis; Other methods;
• Sustainability - the theoretical background, the concept of sustainable development, including the development of policy responses;
• Sustainability: sustainability criteria and concepts.
• Alternative theories and approaches: ecological economics, institutional ecological economics, economics of sustainability.
Graphic Applications apparatus utilized in environmental economics; Application of the principles, tools and methods, focusing on the issue of discounting and method of cost-benefit analysis (CBA); Application of indicators in the field of environment and sustainable development with a focus on indicators of individual concepts of sustainability, the use of indicators tracks (Footprint Indicators) and indicator of actual savings (Adjusted Net Saving ANS); case studies.
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction