Unit ECONOMICS OF SUSTAINABILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT
- Course
- Philosophy and ethics of relationships
- Study-unit Code
- A004734
- Curriculum
- Filosofia
- Teacher
- Simona Bigerna
- Teachers
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- Simona Bigerna
- Hours
- 63 ore - Simona Bigerna
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2024
- Offered
- 2024/25
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline classiche, storiche, antropologiche e politico-sociali
- Academic discipline
- SECS-P/01
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- Carrying out exercises and problems and discussion of topics relating to the different topics of environmental economics and sustainability starting from the theoretical bases of microeconomics.
- Reference texts
- R.K. Turner, D.W. Pearce, I. Bateman, Environmental Economics: An Elementary Introduction, The Johns Hopkins University Press
I. Musu, Introduction to environmental economics, Bologna: il Mulino, 2003.
MICROECONOMIA 7/ED M.D. Katz, H.S. Rosen, C.A. Bollino, W. Morgan, Editore. McGraw-Hill
A. Lanza, Energia arcobaleno. Il futuro è dell'idrogeno?, Bologna: il Mulino, 2023.
Material offered by the teacher - Educational objectives
- The carrying out of exercises and discussion in class are aimed at facilitating the understanding of how to use economic theory for appropriate management of the environment and natural resources, based on the principles of sustainable development and the economic evaluation of environmental assets
- Prerequisites
- nessuno
- Teaching methods
- Lectures and in-depth seminars
- Other information
- Students with disabilities and/or with DSA are invited to visit the page dedicated to the tools and measures envisaged and to agree in advance what is necessary with the teacher (https://www.unipg.it/disabilita -e-dsa)
- Learning verification modality
- There are no specific tests relating to the exercises carried out. The final assessment can be carried out with the presentation of an in-depth paper (thesis) on the topics covered.
- Extended program
- Extended program Exercises and optimization problems refer to:
The environment and the economic system
Sustainability and sustainable development
The economic analysis of pollution
The economic instruments of environmental policy
The value of the environment
Notes on cost-benefit analysis
Climate change economics
Ostrom's solution to collective bargaining - Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile
- Water
Energy
CIty