CODE 64799 ACADEMIC YEAR 2016/2017 CREDITS 6 cfu anno 3 ECONOMIA E COMMERCIO 8699 (L-33) - 6 cfu anno 3 SCIENZE AMBIENTALI E NATURALI 9916 (L-32) - 6 cfu anno 2 CONSERVAZIONE DEI BENI CULTURALI 8453 (L-1) - SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR SECS-P/03 LANGUAGE Italiano TEACHING LOCATION SEMESTER 1° Semester PREREQUISITES Propedeuticità in ingresso Per sostenere l'esame di questo insegnamento è necessario aver sostenuto i seguenti esami: Economics 8699 (coorte 2015/2016) MICROECONOMICS 41126 2015 MACROECONOMICS 55648 2015 Economics 8699 (coorte 2014/2015) MICROECONOMICS 41126 2014 MACROECONOMICS 55648 2014 TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB OVERVIEW The course provides a theoretical framework to analyze the process of decision-making in the environmental sector and the use of policy instruments in relation to specific cases of environmental resource management and economic activities that produce serious impacts on the environment AIMS AND CONTENT LEARNING OUTCOMES Knowledge and understanding. Students should acquire knowledge and capacity of understanding of: the relationship between environmental protection, economic efficiency and market failure; the sustainability criterion as the capacity of synthetizing economic growth while preserving the ecological basis of economic development Applying knowledge and understanding. Students should be able to critically evaluate the role of environmental and public policy intervention in orienting and regulating markets and the operators to the goal of sustainability Making judgments. At the end of the Course, students must be able to apply the acquired knowledge in order to formulate an independent judgment and a critical thinking on environmental policy choices. They will be able of analyzing the main economic effects of alternative hypotheses of public and private choice on the environment, from the point of view of the efficiency-equity trade-off Communication skills Students will acquire the technical terminology to relate to both specialists and non-specialists, companies and institutions as decision making agents that are related to the environmental and economic variables Learning skills. Students will acquire appropriate skills to improve the studying of specific topics of the discipline. The course will offer students different methodologies for assessing environmental costs and benefits, characterized by a rigorous formal setting. LEARNING OUTCOMES (FURTHER INFO) Recommended prerequisites are the knowledge of: the basic principles of Microeconomics, the competition system (supply and demand functions); income and substitution effects TEACHING METHODS Attendance is recommended. The teaching will include lessons, seminars, classroom discussions and homework. SYLLABUS/CONTENT Topics included: The Environmental Economics • Scarcity, resource allocation and optimization • Non-renewable resources: intertemporal models for optimal use • Renewable resources policies • Sustainable development and growth patterns Efficiency and control of environmental problems • Environmental externalities and pollution • economic and fiscal policies for environmental control Economic analysis of collective choices and collective decision-making processes • Economic evaluation techniques for environmental/social costs and benefits • Intergenerational equity • Environmental impact assessment, strategic environmental assessment and multi-criteria techniques • Non market techniques and deliberative democracy aimed at deriving operational criterion for environmental sustainability Methodological approaches: • Hedonic prices • Contingent Valuation • Choice experiment RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY The textbook and other additional supports (slides, homework texts, ...) will be posted on Aulaweb TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD BARBARA CAVALLETTI Ricevimento: Office hours on Tuesday from 14.30. Please check any variation at the following address: http://www.economia.unige.it/index.php/il-dipartimento/personale/docenti-ad-economia/90-barbara-cavalletti Exam Board BARBARA CAVALLETTI (President) DANIELA MINETTI MARCELLO MONTEFIORI LESSONS LESSONS START I sem. 19 sept. 2016 - 15 dec. 2016 Class schedule ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS EXAMS ASSESSMENT METHODS Alternatively written/oral examination in English Exam schedule Data appello Orario Luogo Degree type Note 07/06/2017 10:00 GENOVA Scritto 28/06/2017 10:00 GENOVA Scritto 12/09/2017 10:00 GENOVA Scritto