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B026815 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY AND BIOECONOMY
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Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
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Type of Assessment
Course program
Academic Year 2019-20
Coorte 2019 - Second Cycle Degree in BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT AND SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE (BIO-EMSA)
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Agriculture, Food, Environment and Forestry (DAGRI)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
AGR/01 - AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS AND RURAL APPRAISAL
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
16/09/2019 ⇒ 20/12/2019
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Lecture will be held in Italian. The teaching material will be mostry in English
Course Content
The course develops and applies the principles of the economics to environmental issues, explores economic policies related to the preservation and sustainable management of natural resources, including the tradeoff of these policies. Finally, the course introduces to the principles of the bioeconomy i.e. the opportunities offered by an economy based on the sustainable exploitation of biological resources.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
David A. Anderson Environmental economics and natural resource management Routledge
Davide Viaggi - The bioeconomy – delivering sustainable green growth –CABI.
Teaccher handhouts
Some articles and part of books
Davide Viaggi - The bioeconomy – delivering sustainable green growth –CABI.
Teaccher handhouts
Some articles and part of books
Learning Objectives
The student at the end of the course will be able to:
Apply economic models to explain the causes of environmental problems related to production activities.
Critically evaluate the economic policy options of the environment.
To establish an economic-environmental assessment.
To knowing the principles of the bioeconomy.
To interact with policy makers, academics and public and private officials involved in the management of natural and environmental resources
Apply economic models to explain the causes of environmental problems related to production activities.
Critically evaluate the economic policy options of the environment.
To establish an economic-environmental assessment.
To knowing the principles of the bioeconomy.
To interact with policy makers, academics and public and private officials involved in the management of natural and environmental resources
Prerequisites
Knowledge of the elements of macroeconomics, microeconomics and economic policy
Teaching Methods
The teacher uses:
1) Lectures;
2) Thematic seminars;
3) Pen and pencils exercises;
4) Jigsaw
5) Resolve concrete cases
1) Lectures;
2) Thematic seminars;
3) Pen and pencils exercises;
4) Jigsaw
5) Resolve concrete cases
Further information
Participation in the course is not mandatory but strongly supported.
All teaching materials will be distributed on moodle.
All teaching materials will be distributed on moodle.
Type of Assessment
The oral exam includes the verification of students' ability to:
1) Descirbing verbally the main models of environmental economics and the bioeconomy.
2) Identifing the most appropriate estimation method to assess the economic value of environmental services
3) Critically state the advantages and disadvantages of a given economic policy on environmental control.
Active participation during the lecturesù; Punctuality and correctness of homeworks will be evaluated.
1) Descirbing verbally the main models of environmental economics and the bioeconomy.
2) Identifing the most appropriate estimation method to assess the economic value of environmental services
3) Critically state the advantages and disadvantages of a given economic policy on environmental control.
Active participation during the lecturesù; Punctuality and correctness of homeworks will be evaluated.
Course program
FIRST MODULE: Economics and environmental policy
Elements of economics
Basic elements of economic policy
Population, poverty, environment and growth
Sustainable development
Efficiency and choice
Market failures
Environmental assessment methods
Economic control of the environment: regulations
Economic control of the environment: market approaches
The management of renewable resources
SECOND MODULE: Bioeconomy
Introduction to the bioeconomy
Technologies and innovation in the bioeconomy
Individual consumption in the bioeconomy
The production function in the bioeconomy
Bioeconomy and sustainable development
Elements of economics
Basic elements of economic policy
Population, poverty, environment and growth
Sustainable development
Efficiency and choice
Market failures
Environmental assessment methods
Economic control of the environment: regulations
Economic control of the environment: market approaches
The management of renewable resources
SECOND MODULE: Bioeconomy
Introduction to the bioeconomy
Technologies and innovation in the bioeconomy
Individual consumption in the bioeconomy
The production function in the bioeconomy
Bioeconomy and sustainable development