INTRODUCTION TO MODELS AND THEORIES DESCRIBING THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES AND THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT, THE RATIONAL USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES, AND PUBLIC INTERVENTIONS TO CORRECT MARKET FAILURES THAT OCCUR IN SUCH CONTEXTS.
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1.1 The origins of the problem
1.2 Interdependency economy-environment
1.3 GDP growth and welfare measure
1.4 Sustainability
1.5 Pollution extension and types
1.6 Natural resources
2. Ethics and economics
2.1 Natural philosophy
2.2 Libertarian philosophy
2.3 Utilitarianism
2.4 Critique to utilitarianism
3. Social welfare and environmental sustainability
3.1 Pareto efficiency
3.2 Social welfare function
3.3 Kaldor- Hicks-Scitovsky compensation tests
3.4 Market failures
3.5 Second-best theorem
4. Environmental policy
4.1 Public goods
4.2 Externalities
4.3 Environmental pollution models
4.4 Flow and stock of polluting emissions
4.5 Emission efficiency in static models
4.6 Emission efficiency in dynamic models
5 Environmental policy: instruments
5.1 Tax and subsidy
5.2 Command-and-control
5.3 Permits
6 Monetary valuation
6.1 Contingent valuation method
6.2 Hedonic price method
6.3 Cost-Benefit analysis
In substitution to lecture notes:
Title: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. 4th Edition, 2011
Authors: Perman Roger, Ma Yue, Common Micheal, Maddison David, McGilvray James.
Editor: Pearson
Mutuazione: 21201502 ECONOMIA DELL'AMBIENTE in Economia L-33 N0 SPINESI LUCA
Programme
1. Introduction to environmental economics1.1 The origins of the problem
1.2 Interdependency economy-environment
1.3 GDP growth and welfare measure
1.4 Sustainability
1.5 Pollution extension and types
1.6 Natural resources
2. Ethics and economics
2.1 Natural philosophy
2.2 Libertarian philosophy
2.3 Utilitarianism
2.4 Critique to utilitarianism
3. Social welfare and environmental sustainability
3.1 Pareto efficiency
3.2 Social welfare function
3.3 Kaldor- Hicks-Scitovsky compensation tests
3.4 Market failures
3.5 Second-best theorem
4. Environmental policy
4.1 Public goods
4.2 Externalities
4.3 Environmental pollution models
4.4 Flow and stock of polluting emissions
4.5 Emission efficiency in static models
4.6 Emission efficiency in dynamic models
5 Environmental policy: instruments
5.1 Tax and subsidy
5.2 Command-and-control
5.3 Permits
6 Monetary valuation
6.1 Contingent valuation method
6.2 Hedonic price method
6.3 Cost-Benefit analysis
Core Documentation
Lecture notes available on Moodle.In substitution to lecture notes:
Title: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics. 4th Edition, 2011
Authors: Perman Roger, Ma Yue, Common Micheal, Maddison David, McGilvray James.
Editor: Pearson
Type of delivery of the course
Written, oral examinationAttendance
Lectures in classType of evaluation
Written with exercises and open questions