Terminated in academic year 2023/2024

Environmental Economics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	English
Code	114-9519/01
Abbreviation	ENVIRO
Course title	Environmental Economics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Economics
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

The course focuses on the main directions of development of environmental economics in the current period, mainly on the following topics.
• History of the integration of environmental considerations into economic theo
• Milestones and starting the formation of environmental economics and sustainable development concept
• Modelling aspects of sustainability in the context of the theory of economic growth
• Development of a system of methods and tools for the needs of environmental policy - application problems
• Problems application optimization methods and deciding on the optimal use of essential environmental functions (methods of valuation of environmental goods, optimization and decision-making methods
• Development of the concept of sustainable development in environmental economics, relation of environmental, social and economic development
• Limits environmental economics, alternative approaches and theoretical concepts (ecological economics, institutional economics approaches, etc.)
• The process of globalization and its impacts (positive, negative) on the environment and sustainable development.

Literature

ANDERSON, D.A. (2010) Environmental Economics and Natural Resource Management. 3rd ed. London: Routledge. ISBN
978-0-415-77905-0
DALY, H. E., FARLEY, J. (2004). Ecological economics: Principles and appli-cations. Island Press:Washington.
EDWARDS-JONES, G., DAVIES B., HUSSAIN, S. (2000). Ecological economics: an introduction. Oxford: Blackwell Science.
FIELD, B.C. and FIELD, M.K. (2009) Environmental Economics. An Introduction, 5th edn., McGraw Hill, Boston
HARRIS, J. M. (2006) Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach. 2nd Edition. Boston:Houghton Mifflin.
KLUVÁNKOVÁ-ORAVSKÁ, T. et al. (2010). From Government to Governance? New Governance for Water and Biodiversity in an Enlarged Europe. Praha: Alfa Nakladatelství, 2010.
MYERS, N., KENT, J.(2001). Perverse Subsidies: How Missused Tax Dollars Harm the Environment and the Economy.Washington, London: Island Press.
SIEBERT, H. (2008). Economics of the Environment. Theory and Policy. 7th Ed. Berlin: Springer.

Advised literature

DALY, H. E., COBB, J. B. (1994). For the common good. Redirecting the economy towards community, the environment and a sustainable future. London: Green Print.
LOMBORG, B.(2001). The Skeptical Environmentalist. Measuring the Real State of the World. Cambridge University Press..
ŠIMÍČKOVÁ, M. DRASTICHOVÁ, M. (2013) Ekonomie udržitelnosti – alternativní přístupy a perspektivy. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, EkF, SAEI 2013, vol. 21. ISBN 978-80-248-3286-9.
TIETENBERG, T.H.: Environmental Economics and Policy. 4th Edition. Addison
Weasley 2003.
TIETENBERG, T.H.: Environmental and Natural Ressource Economics. Addison
Weasley 2005.

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