The course aims to provide basic tools and methodologies used for analysising, understanding and evaluatingthe most relevant phenomena of environmental and territorial economics, in particular those related to sustainable management of natural resources.
Course program
- Economy and environment;
- the historical evolution of environmental economics;
- from the traditional economic system to the circular economic system;
- the material balance approach;
- the sustainable economic system;
- environment, ethics and economic development;
- economic analysis of natural resources;
- renewable resources: Overexploitation;
- management of renewable resources;
- non-renewable resources: availability and scarcity of resources;
- extraction of non-renewable resources;
- causes of environmental degradation;
- functioning of markets;
- market failures: externalities and public goods;
- definition of the optimal level of pollution;
- failures of public intervention;
- methodologies for evaluating environmental goods;
- agriculture, environment and sustainability;
- evolution of the EU CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and related effects on the relationship between agriculture and the environment;
- sustainability in agri-food system;
- rural development policies;
- agri-environmental measures;
- environmental certifications and sustainability;
- land and water management;
- protected natural areas;
- economic control of the environment;
- establishment of taxes for the use of the environment;
- ecological taxes;
- tradable pollution permits;
- environmental standards.
