546-0930/02 – Environmental Economics (EE)
Gurantor department | Department of Environmental Engineering | Credits | 10 |
Subject guarantor | Ing. Marcella Šimíčková, CSc. | Subject version guarantor | Ing. Marcella Šimíčková, CSc. |
Study level | postgraduate | Requirement | Optional |
Year | | Semester | winter + summer |
| | Study language | Czech |
Year of introduction | 2002/2003 | Year of cancellation | 2012/2013 |
Intended for the faculties | HGF | Intended for study types | Doctoral |
Subject aims expressed by acquired skills and competences
After completing the course, students will be able to:
• explain the theoretical basis of economic instruments in environmental policy, and problems of their application in practice,
• justify their benefits compared with the quantitative control instruments,
• summarize the criteria and methods for deciding on the optimal use of the basic functions of the environment,
• define the problems / limits of application of optimization methods,
• clarify the nature of the concept of sustainable development and interrelationship of environmental, social and economic development,
• define the positive and negative impacts of globalization on the environment and sustainable development,
• define the limits of environmental economics and alternative approaches to the use of natural resources and sustainable development.
Teaching methods
Individual consultations
Summary
Economic aspects of environmental degradation. Nature, causes and negative impacts of the existence of externalities. Methods and instruments for internalising costs (externalities) and optimization of pollution.
The criteria of efficiency and decision-making methods.
Valuing quality of the environment and its changes as a prerequisite for evaluating the effectiveness of measures to protect the environment. Valuation of natural resources, objectives and criteria for the optimal use of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable. Factors affecting the dynamics of the exploitation of natural resources.
Causes and consequences of the globalization of environmental problems. The concept of sustainable development and its measurement.
Alternative approaches to global cooperation in the environmental field (theory and practice).
Compulsory literature:
Recommended literature:
DALY, H. E., COBB, J. B. (1994). For the common good. Redirecting the economy towards community, the environment and a sustainable future. London: Green Print.
LOMBORG, B.(2001).The Skeptical Environmentalist. Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge University Press.
MYERS, N., KENT, J.(2001). Perverse Subsidies: How Missused Tax Dollars Harm the Environment and the Economy.Washington, London: Island Press.
SIEBERT, H. (2008). Economics of the Environment. Theory and Policy. 7th Ed. Berlin: Springer.
Tietenberg, T.H.: Environmental Economics and Policy. 4th Edition. Addison
Weasley 2003.
Tietenberg, T.H.: Environmental and Natural Ressource Economics. Addison
Weasley 2005.
Way of continuous check of knowledge in the course of semester
discussion of individual topics
E-learning
not been implemented
Other requirements
study recommended recent articles / publications
discussion of individual topics
Prerequisities
Subject has no prerequisities.
Co-requisities
Subject has no co-requisities.
Subject syllabus:
• Economic aspects of environmental degradation.
• Methods and instruments to internalize the cost and optimization of pollution.
• The criteria of efficiency and decision-making methods.
• Valuing quality of the environment and its changes as a prerequisite for evaluating the effectiveness of measures to protect the environment
• Valuation of natural resources, objectives and criteria for the optimal use of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable.
• Factors affecting the dynamics of the exploitation of natural resources.
• Causes and consequences of the globalization of environmental problems.
• The concept of sustainable development and its measurement.
• Alternative approaches to global cooperation in the environmental field (theory and practice).
Conditions for subject completion
Occurrence in study plans
Occurrence in special blocks
Assessment of instruction
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