VALUING NATURAL CAPITAL AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES

AGR/01 - 6 CFU - 1° semestre

Docente titolare dell'insegnamento

GIOVANNI SIGNORELLO

Obiettivi formativi

Il corso si propone di fornire i principi, gli strumenti metodologici e i protocolli operativi per la valutazione economica del capitale naturale e dei servizi ecosistemici.

Modalità di svolgimento dell'insegnamento

Lezioni frontali ed esercitazioni

Prerequisiti richiesti

Nessuno

Frequenza lezioni

Raccomandata

Contenuti del corso

Il capitale naturale. I servizi ecosistemici. Classificazione dei servizi ecosistemici. Gli scopi della valutazione economica. Principi di economia del benessere. Il paradigma del Valore Economico Totale. I metodi di valutazione: aspetti generali. I metodi di valutazione basati sulle preferenze rivelate: il metodo del costo del viaggio (modelli single site e modelli multiple sites); il metodo del prezzo edonico; il metodo del comportamento difensivo; altri metodi. I metodi di valutazione basati sulle preferenze espresse: la valutazione contingente; gli esperimenti di scelta. I metodi di second best: Benefit Transfer. Il danno ambientale in ambito giudiziario. Riparazione primaria, complementare e compensativa. Stima del danno ambientale mediante l’analisi di equivalenza. Esame di casi studio notevoli.

Testi di riferimento

Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016
Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press, Washington D.C., 2014
Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018

Altro materiale didattico

Il materiale didattico contenuto in Signorello G. (a cura di), Materiale di approfondimento per la valutazione economica del capitale naturale e dei servizi ecosistemi , Università di Catania, 2018, verrà pubblicato su Studium e, a richiesta, potra essere fornito direttamente agli studenti via DropBox

Programmazione del corso

	Argomenti	Riferimenti testi
1	The natural capital as asset.	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018
2	Ecosystem services.	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018
3	Classification of ecosystem services	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018
4	Goals of economic valuation.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016
5	Principles of welfare economics	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
6	The Total Economic Value paradigm.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
7	General overview of economic valuation methods.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
8	Travel cost method (single sites and multiple sites approaches).	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
9	Hedonic price method.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
10	Defensive behavior.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
11	Damage cost method.	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
12	Contingent valuation	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Cat
13	Choice Experiments	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Ca
14	Benefit Transfer approach	Boyle K.J., Brown T.C., Champ P.A. (eds.), A Primer on Nonmarket Valuation, 2nd edition, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2016 Freeman A. M. III, Herriges J. A., and Kling C., The Measurement of Environmental and Resource Values, 3rd ed., RFF Press,
15	Environmental damage estimates in the European courts.	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018
16	Equivalence Analysis.	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018
17	Examination of selected valuation case-studies	Signorello G. (ed.), Valuing Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Supplementary Material and Readings, Università di Catania, 2018

Verifica dell'apprendimento

MODALITÀ DI VERIFICA DELL'APPRENDIMENTO

test informaili durante le lezioni e le esercitazioni; esame finale orale

ESEMPI DI DOMANDE E/O ESERCIZI FREQUENTI

Welfare measures, Total Economic Value, Travel Cost Method, Travel Cost Random Utility Model, Hedonic Price Method, Contigent Valuation, Approaches to estimate willingens to pay from discrete choice data, Choice Experiments, Benefit Transfer Method, Enviornmental damages in the EU and Italian legislation, Equivalenc approaches to estimate environmental damage.

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