Course: Selected Issues from Environmental Management and Economics

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Course title Selected Issues from Environmental Management and Economics
Course code FES/HVPEM
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 Czech
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
Sustainable development requirements and related issues. Current sustainability policy - selected issues. Sources of information, status and implications of environmental change. Sustainability tools, environmental assessment options. Environmental damage, analysis and calculation options. Environmental effectiveness and evaluation of the effectiveness of environmental investments. New environmental policy instruments.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Methods of individual activities
Learning outcomes
The aim of the course is to deepen knowledge in the field of environmental management, economics and politics. The concept of efficiency is discussed against the background of current policies using economic and managerial tools. Recent trends in environmental quality and natural resource valuation are presented. State environmental policy is analysed in terms of modern managerial approaches and its economic, social and political implications are examined. Emphasis is placed on contemporary problem-oriented approaches and on the possibilities of using solutions based on environmental management.
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, Kuishuang. Local consumption and global environmental impacts . London ; : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group :, 2020. ISBN 978-1-138-82606-9.
  • GOODSTEIN, EBAN, S., POLASKY, S. Economics and the Environment. Hoboken, NJ. 2020.
  • Hahn, R. Sustainability Management: Global Perspectives on Concepts, Instruments, and Stakeholders. Düsseldorf. 2022.
  • 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.
  • PERMAN, R. et al. Natural resource and environmental economics. New York: Pearson Addison Wesley, 2011..
  • TIETENBERG, T.H., LEWIS, L. Environmental and natural resource economics. Upper Saddle River (N.J.): Pearson Education, 2012..
  • Veber Jaromír, Švecová Lenka. Udržitelnost a udržitelný management. 2023. ISBN 978-80-271-0897-8.


Study plans that include the course
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