ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS

The course aims to provide the basic tools of economic analysis applied to environmental problems. In particular, the program aims to develop knowledge and awareness on the environmental sustainability, by approaching the learning activity with typical tools of economics. The analysis of the causes of environmental degradation and the design of policies will be framed within the rationale of of the relationship between the economy and Nature, between perspectives and constraints. Peculiar attention will be devoted to different regulatory methods, the sustainable management of natural resources, collective choices and the evaluation of environmental assets.

Lectures.

Modulo I:
An introduction to natural resource and environmental economics; The origins of the sustainability problem; Ethics, economics and the environment; Concepts of sustainability; Welfare economics and the environment; Pollution control: targets.
Modulo II:
Pollution control: instruments; International environmental problems; Cost–benefit analysis; Valuing the environment; Irreversibility, risk and uncertainty; The efficient and optimal use of natural resources; Accounting for the environment.

Autori: Perman, R., Ma, Y., McGilvray, J., Common, M. Titolo: Natural Resources and Environmental Economics Editore e anno: PEARSON 2003.

Modulo I: capitoli: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.

Modulo II: capitoli: 7, 11, 12, 13, 14, 19.