Unit CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Course
Management and food italian culture
Study-unit Code
A003243
Curriculum
In all curricula
Teacher
Paolo Polinori
CFU
12
Course Regulation
Coorte 2024
Offered
2024/25
Type of study-unit
Obbligatorio (Required)
Type of learning activities
Attività formativa integrata

ANALYSIS OF BIOECONOMIC SYSTEMS

Code A003245
CFU 6
Teacher Paolo Polinori
Teachers
  • Paolo Polinori
Hours
  • 42 ore - Paolo Polinori
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Economico
Academic discipline SECS-P/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Lecture will be held in Italian. International and Erasmus students can attend the course. Teaching materials are available in English. Written and/or oral examinations can be made in English. Please, send a mail to the Lecturer to book an appointment in the first week of lessons.
Contents The course develops and applies the principles of economics to environmental issues. Both microeconomic and macroeconomic aspects shall be analysed, also taking into account economic policies relating to the safeguarding and sustainable management of natural resources. The interdependencies between the various economic policy instruments will be examined. The course introduces the principles of the bioeconomy both on the supply and demand side highlighting the opportunities offered by an economy based on the sustainable usage of biological resources.
Reference texts Bresso M. Economia ecologica; Jaka Book 2021.
Lecture notes
Articles
Chapters of Book
Video
Educational objectives Apply economic models to explain the causes of environmental problems related to production and consumption activities.
Evaluate economic and social instruments of economic and environmental policy.
Implement economic and environmental assessment.
Know the principles of bioeconomy.
Interact with stakeholders involved in the management of natural and environmental resources.
Prerequisites No one
Teaching methods The course is organized as follows. a) lectures covering all the topics of the program and related exercises; b) watching films and documentaries related to the topics of the course; c) organization of seminars; d) group work.
Other information More info will be provided in class and made available on the platform moodle : https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/
Learning verification modality Oral exam
Verbal presentation of models of environmental economics
Verbal presentation of bioeconomic principles.
Oral presentation of the principles of evaluation of the economic value of environmental services
Analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of economic policy cases on environmental control
Intermediate written tests will be carried out.
Extended program Basic elements of micro and macroeconomics
Basic elements of economic policy
Sustainable development
Market failure
Methods of environmental assessment
Economic regulation of natural resources
Introduction to the bioeconomy
Technical progress and bioeconomy
Consumption and bioeconomy
Production and bioeconomy
Bioeconomy and sustainable development.
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile Responsible consumption and production
Health and well-being
Acting for the climate

CIRCULAR ECONOMY

Code A003244
CFU 6
Teacher Paolo Polinori
Teachers
  • Paolo Polinori
Hours
  • 42 ore - Paolo Polinori
Learning activities Caratterizzante
Area Economico
Academic discipline SECS-P/01
Type of study-unit Obbligatorio (Required)
Language of instruction Lecture will be held in Italian. International and Erasmus students can attend the course. Teaching materials are available in English. Written and/or oral examinations can be made in English. Please, send a mail to the Lecturer to book an appointment in the first week of lessons.
Contents The climate, society and economy are undergoing extreme and drastic changes. These crises involve aspects of life and the planet, such as: supply of raw materials, pollution, territorial and social fragility, economic instability and pandemics. This framework requires appropriate and targeted countermeasures, aimed at re-establishing a paradigm based on an ecological, sustainable, resilient, ethical and inclusive approach. This goal of local resilience requires the involvement of all actors as bearers of a "collective" interest and well-being. The course focuses on the topics of the circular economy. The course contents provide an understanding of these topics from the perspective of economic and social impact.
Reference texts Matteo Carbone (2022) Economia circolare e resilienza locale. Macerata : Edizioni Simple

Martin Charter -editor- (2019) Designing for the Circular Economy, London: Routledge

Lecture notes
Educational objectives At the end of the course, students will have the necessary knowledge to analyze, from the point of view of the Circular Economy, environmental issues, natural resource management and climate change issues.
Students will be able to apply theories and models related to the assessment of circular sustainability of economic processes.
Students will be able to deepen the complex relationship between economic processes and ecological systems.
Prerequisites No one
Teaching methods The course is organized as follows. a) lectures covering all the topics of the program and related exercises; b) watching films and documentaries related to the topics of the course; c) organization of seminars; d) group work.
Other information More info will be provided in class and made available on the platform moodle : https://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium/
Learning verification modality Final oral examination and intermediate written tests
Extended program The Circular Economy: Theory
Introductory economic and technological concepts
Sustainability
Natural resources
Economic growth
Sustainable Development
Circularity
LCA
The 4 Rs of circularity: reduce, reuse, recycle/ regenerate, recover
Circularity and business models
Circularity and EU strategies and policies

Circular Economy: applications
The economics of Climate Change: CBA
The Politics of Climate Change
Carbon pricing and carbon tax vs ETS
The climate as a global public good
International agreements on climate change
Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile Industry, innovation and infrastructure

Clean and affordable energy

Responsible consumption and production
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