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Terminated in academic year 2010/2011

Regional and Environmental Economics

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 118-0300/01
Abbreviation RGENEK
Course title Regional and Environmental Economics
Credits 2
Coordinating department Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator Ing. Jan Malinovský, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

REGIONAL ECONOMICS
I. Space and his participants.
- Conception of Space in Economics; Basic of space economic participants and their interaction in space.
- Factora of localiztion – Supply and demand, Concentration and deconcentration in territory.
II. Regions nad their differentiation
- Causies of regional disparities; Regionalism and basic methods; Differentation and classification of regions.
- Regional partial analysis and Lorenz curve.
III. Regional and municipal policy
- Access “up-down” in the CR and EU; Definitions; Motivation of loading and bleachers diffusion innovation.
- Role of municipality and cities in regional development; Institucions of RP in the CR.
IV. Spatial and Sociodemographic Characters of the Population.
- Population size, structure and distribution
- Spatial movement of the inhabitants and residential hierarchy
V.Regional management and marketing
- From regions and localities to the state level or 'bottom-up' approach
- Developmental connotations of regional management and marketing
- Networks - informal dimension of regional development
VI. Regionální sociology and research in territory
- Sociology of towns and country; Social instittucions and networks in development of rural regions and cities.
- Basic of territory sociologiy research.
VII. Regional project making and programming
- Programs and projects – definitions; Programming on the level of EU, CR regional and municipal level.
- Project management principles and project cycle.
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
1.. Introduction – Economy and Environment Relationship
2. Basic concepts of environmental economics; Interactions of economy and environment
- Basic functions of environment and thermodynamic laws impacts
2. Economics of Environmental Pollution
- Causes and forms of environmental degradation
- Damages from environmental degradation; Optimal level of pollution
3. Theory of Externalities
- Definition of externality ; Causes of raise and impacts of externalities
- Internalisation of externality under perfect and imperfect competition; Market Solution of Externalities
4. Optimal level of externality
- Coase theorem and optimal pollution by bargaining; Problems with the Coase theorem
5. Green Taxes and Optimal Pollution
- Optimal tax on environmental pollution based on estimated damage; Problems with setting the tax
- Distributional impacts of environmental taxes
6. Environmental Standards and Environmental Charges
- Environmental standards and problems of standard-setting; Comparing environmental standards with charge solution
- Advantages and disadvantages of economic instruments
7. Environmental Decision-Making
- Cost-benefit analysis and time problem; Economically optimal level of environmental protection
- Assessment of environmental benefits, problem of justice
8. Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development
- Definition and conditions for sustainable development; Weak and strong sustainability
- Operational principles of sustainable development.

Literature

TO PART OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1. ARMSTRONG, H. and TAYLOR, J. Regional Economics and Policy. Third edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers LTD., 2000. 450 p. ISBN 0-631-21657-X .

TO PART ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2. HARRIS, Jonathan, M. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach. 2nd Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 978-0618496334 .

Advised literature

To part of the REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1. ČERNÁ, Ĺubice a Martina JAKÁBOVÁ. Project Cycle Management. Bratislava: Slovenská technická univerzita, 2008. 101 s. ISBN 978-80-227-2822-5.
2. HAYTER, Roger. Dynamic of Industrial Location. Chichester, New York, …: John Wiley&sons, 2000. 484 p. ISBN 0-471—97119-7.
3. STIMSON, Robert, J., Roger R. STOUGH a Brian H. ROBERTS. Regional Economic Development. Analysins and Planning Stratgy. Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. ISBN 3-540-43731-2.
4. VANHOVE, Norbert and Leo H. KLAASSEN. Regional Policy - European Approach. Avenburg, …, Gower Publisching Company Limited, 1987. ISBN 0-566-05413-2.

To part ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
5. FIELD, Barry, C. a Martha K. FIELD. Environmental Economics: An Introduction. 5th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009. ISBN 9780073375762.
6. TIETENBERG, Tom a Lynne LEWIS. Environmental Economics and Policy. 6th Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2009. ISBN 9780321599490 .
7. HACKETT, Steven, C. Environmental and natural resources economics: Theory,policy and the sustainable society. 2nd Edition. Armonk,, New York, London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. ISBN 0-7656-0681-X .
8. KOOTEN van, Comelis, G. and Erwin, H. BULTE. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets. Oxford UK: Blackwell Publisher, 2000. ISBN 0-631-21895-5.