Course: Selected Issues from Environmental Management and Economics

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Course title Selected Issues from Environmental Management and Economics
Course code FES/EVPEM
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminar
Level of course Doctoral
Year of study not specified
Semester Winter and summer
Number of ECTS credits 15
Language of instruction English
Status of course Compulsory-optional
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Baťa Robert, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Quantification problems of sustainable development requirements, SD indicators. Information sources on causes of environmental changes, environment status and consequences. Possibilities of non-market environment valuation. Environmental damages valuation. Eco-efficiency and methods of efficiency valuation of environmental investments and measurements. Environmental accounting at macro and micro level. Latest instruments of environmental policy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen and broaden knowledge in the field of environmental economics. The concept of economic-environmental efficiency is discussed against the background of the generation of pollutants in the territory and the economic boundaries of pollution removal are defined. Recent trends in non-market valuation of environmental quality and natural resource valuation are presented. State environmental policy is analyzed in terms of modern managerial approaches and its economic, social and political consequences are traced. Emphasis is placed on problem-oriented approaches and on the possibility of using regional environmental management systems.
Student will be able to assess economic and social development from the point of view of the last findings in the area of anthropogenic activities environmental impacts.
Prerequisites
unspecified

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Home assignment evaluation

Attendance at seminars is compulsory. The examination is granted upon successful completion of the seminar paper in the extent of 10-15 pages conceived as a source for the thesis or paper.
Recommended literature
  • FENG, K.; HUBACEK, K.; YU, Y. Local consumption and global environmental impacts: accounting, trade-offs and sustainability. London: Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-82606-9.
  • Field, Barry C. Environmental economics  . New York, NY, USA: McGraw-Hill, 2021. ISBN 978-1-260-57549-1.
  • Garforth, Lisa. Green utopias . Cambridge: Polity, 2018. ISBN 978-0-7456-8474-1.
  • GILPIN, A. Environmental Economics. A critical overview.. Chichester: Wiley, 2000.
  • CHERRY T.L.,KROLL S., SHOGREN J. F. Environmental Economics, Experimental Methods.. London: Routledge, 2008.
  • KOLK A. Economics of Environmental Management.. Harlow: Pearson, 2000. ISBN 0 273 64238 3.
  • MUDACUMURA G.M., MEBRATU D., HAQUE M.S. Sustainable Development Policy and Administration.. New York: Taylor and Francis Group, 2006. ISBN 1-577444-563-4.
  • OLEJ, V., OBRŠÁLOVÁ, I., KŘUPKA, J.(eds.). Environmental Modelling for Sustainable Development. System Approaches and Advances Methods.. Hersey, New York: IGI Global, 2011.
  • WELFORD, R. Comporate Environmental Management. Culture and Organization.. London: Earthscan Publishing, 1997.


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