1. SylabUZ
2. Wydział Ekonomii i Zarządzania
3. semestr zimowy 2023/2024
4. Ekonomia - drugiego stopnia z tyt. magistra
5. Environmental economics

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Environmental economics - opis przedmiotu

Cel przedmiotu

The aim of the course is to provide students with knowledge about the nature of the mutual relations between the economy and the environment. The knowledge about the industrial revolution and its consequences is also significant, as well as ecological barriers to development (raw materials, spatial, limited environmental services, environmental footprint), external costs of the functioning of enterprises and anthropogenic aspects of human activity.

Wymagania wstępne

Zapisz zmiany

None.

Zakres tematyczny

Lecture: Ecological problems in the theory of economics - a retrospective approach. Economics of the environment and natural resources versus ecological economics. The industrial revolution and its consequences. Environmental footprint and Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). External effects. Ecological and economic perspective of the management and development processes. The concept of circular economy (Polish: GOZ) and C2C. Sustainable production and consumption. The ecological paradigm of economics in the pursuit of a sustainable economy. Brundtland Report. Sustainable development its indicators.

Practicals: Effectiveness and efficiency in resource management, ecological footprint, external costs (according to A. Pigou), social costs generated by enterprises, global environmental barriers.

Metody kształcenia

Conventional lecture. Practicals: classic problem method, discussion; work in groups - a written work on environmental economics on a selected example (speech with a multimedia presentation).

Efekty uczenia się i metody weryfikacji osiągania efektów uczenia się

Opis efektu	Symbole efektów	Metody weryfikacji	Forma zajęć

Warunki zaliczenia

The student is required to obtain a credit for the lecture with a grade (exam). A positive grade for the lecture is given to a student who obtains at least 60% of correct answers in a test containing open-ended questions or an online test (K_W02, K_W04).

In order to pass the practicals, the student is required to:

1) pass a test consisting of open questions (credit is awarded to a student who gives at least 60% of correct answers) (K_W02, K_W04) and

2) preparation of a written work and a multimedia presentation on topics related to aspects of environmental economics and natural resources, (K_U09, K_U10, K_K05, K_K08).

The final grade for the subject will be the arithmetic mean of the grades obtained from the practicals and the lecture, assuming that both grades will be at least satisfactory.

Literatura podstawowa

1. EEA Report No 19/2018, Environmental indicator report 2018. In support to the monitoring of the Seventh Environment Action Programme, online: https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/environmental-indicator-report-2018

2. Unit One: An Introduction to Environmental Economics and Economic Concepts, online: https://www.soas.ac.uk/cedep-demos/000_P570_IEEP_K3736-Demo/module/pdfs/p570_unit_01.pdf (14,09,2022).

3. Ahmed M. Hussen, 2005, Principles of Environmental Economics. Economics, ecology and public policy, Taylor & Francis Group or Routledge, London & New York; online: https://ashraffeps.yolasite.com/resources/Environmental_Eco./Principles of Environmental Economics.pdf (14,09,2022).

4. Bo Weidema, Mark Goedkoop, Ellen Meijer, Rosan Harmens, 2020, LCA-based assessment of the Sustainable Development Goals Development update and preliminary findings of the Project “Linking the UN Sustainable Development Goals to life cycle impact pathway frameworks”, PRé Sustainability & 2.-0 LCA consultants, online: https://lca-net.com/files/Report-SDGs-Aug-2020.pdf (14,09,2022).

5. Walter Klöpffer, Birgit Grahl, 2014, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA): A Guide to Best Practice, Wiley‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, DOI:10.1002/9783527655625

6. Environmental Economics, 2010, https://www.slideshare.net/mccracken/environmental-economics-4790490

7. The Sustainable Development Goals Report 2021. United Nations, online: https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2021/The-Sustainable-Development-Goals-Report-2021.pdf

 

Literatura uzupełniająca

1. Environmental Economics, Journal, Download free pdf; online: https://www.academia.edu/41133205/Environmental_Economics
2. Sustainability, Journal, online: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability
3. European Commission (EC). 2012, Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) Guide. Deliverable 2 and 4A of the Administrative Arrangement between DG Environment and the Joint Research Centre No N 070307/2009/552517, including Amendment No 1 from December 2010. Online: https://ec.europa.eu/environment/eussd/pdf/footprint/PEF methodology final draft.pdf
4. Ecological Footprint: Overview". footprintnetwork.org. Global Footprint Network. Retrieved 2017
5. Eurostat – http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_OFFPUB/KS-AU-06-001/EN/KS-AU-06-001-EN.PDF
6. Joanna Zarębska, Andrzej Zarębski, Anna Lewandowska, 2021, Polish society towards the implementation of the circular economy and the change of municipal waste management – ecological, economic and social aspect, Management vol. 25, no. 2, p. 91-112, ISSN: 1429-9321, DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/manment-2019-0075
7. Joanna Zarębska, Katarzyna Joachimiak-Lechman, 2016, Circular economy – the role of the Environmental Life Cycle Assessment, opportunities, barriers and challenges, Logistyka Odzysku = Journal of Reverse Logistics nr 1/2016(2), pp. 5-9, ISSN: 2083-6422, www.jorl.eu

Uwagi

Zmodyfikowane przez dr hab. inż. Joanna Zarębska, prof. UZ (ostatnia modyfikacja: 18-05-2023 15:20)