1 REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1.1 Regional economics, localization and participants
- Trends in global localization of economic activities
- Spatial concept in economics, from localization to the regional economy and actors
- Regional innovation potential
1.2 Regional disparities, analysis and typology of regions
- Regional disparities and what to do with them?
- Regionalization, differentiation and classification of the regions
- Partial of regional analysis and Lorenz curve
1.3 Spatial and socio-demographic characteristics of the population
- Population size, territorial distribution, structure and methods of measurement of demographic processes
- The current dynamics of the spatial components of population movement (generally, in the Czech Republic and in the world)
- Spatial population movements, settlement of hierarchy and urbanization
1.4 Social aspects of regional development and territorial marketing
- Social aspects of regional development
- Territorial marketing
1.5 Strategic management, project management, and regional and local development
- Strategic and operational management, and regional development documents (examples from Czech Republic)
- Specifics types of regional management and regional manager
- Project - attributes and content management of the efforts of people and institutions to create a unique place of activities, the region
1.6 Regional policy and Municipalities
- Definitions, approaches and contemporary regional policy objectives
- Principles and system programming; institution of regional policy in the Czech Republic
- The role of municipalities in regional development.
2 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2.1 Introduction – The development of economic thinking and the environmental economics, the relationship between the economy and the environment
- The outline of the historical development of economic thinking
- Introduction into the Environmental Economics
- Basic definitions and functions of the environment
- Relationship between the economy and the environment
2.2 An Introduction to economics of pollution – the theory of externalities
- Pollution such as externalities
- Nature and causes of externalities
- Externality internalize under perfect and imperfect competition
- Optimal level of negative externalities
- Causes and main types of externalities
- Analysis of the effects of the existence of externalities in the theory of welfare
2.3 Economic instruments of environmental policy
- Optimization externalities through the market
- Green taxes and optimal pollution
- The charges in combination with quantitative control
- Emissions permits trading
- Subsidies as a tool of environmental policy
- Environmentally harmful subsidies
2.4 Economic effectiveness of pollution control
- Quantitative regulation
- Basic functions and criteria for choice of market-based instruments
- Basis for selecting market-based instruments
2.5 Decision-making and environment
- The method of cost-benefit analysis and the problem of time
- Integration of environmental considerations into the decision making process
2.6 Environmental economics and sustainable development
- The development of environmental thinking
- Prospects for humanity
- The concept of sustainable development – definitions and conditions
- The principles of sustainable development
2.7 Environmental economics and environmental policy
- Overview distributional effects of environmental policy instruments
- Relationship environmental policy and environmental economics.
1.1 Regional economics, localization and participants
- Trends in global localization of economic activities
- Spatial concept in economics, from localization to the regional economy and actors
- Regional innovation potential
1.2 Regional disparities, analysis and typology of regions
- Regional disparities and what to do with them?
- Regionalization, differentiation and classification of the regions
- Partial of regional analysis and Lorenz curve
1.3 Spatial and socio-demographic characteristics of the population
- Population size, territorial distribution, structure and methods of measurement of demographic processes
- The current dynamics of the spatial components of population movement (generally, in the Czech Republic and in the world)
- Spatial population movements, settlement of hierarchy and urbanization
1.4 Social aspects of regional development and territorial marketing
- Social aspects of regional development
- Territorial marketing
1.5 Strategic management, project management, and regional and local development
- Strategic and operational management, and regional development documents (examples from Czech Republic)
- Specifics types of regional management and regional manager
- Project - attributes and content management of the efforts of people and institutions to create a unique place of activities, the region
1.6 Regional policy and Municipalities
- Definitions, approaches and contemporary regional policy objectives
- Principles and system programming; institution of regional policy in the Czech Republic
- The role of municipalities in regional development.
2 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2.1 Introduction – The development of economic thinking and the environmental economics, the relationship between the economy and the environment
- The outline of the historical development of economic thinking
- Introduction into the Environmental Economics
- Basic definitions and functions of the environment
- Relationship between the economy and the environment
2.2 An Introduction to economics of pollution – the theory of externalities
- Pollution such as externalities
- Nature and causes of externalities
- Externality internalize under perfect and imperfect competition
- Optimal level of negative externalities
- Causes and main types of externalities
- Analysis of the effects of the existence of externalities in the theory of welfare
2.3 Economic instruments of environmental policy
- Optimization externalities through the market
- Green taxes and optimal pollution
- The charges in combination with quantitative control
- Emissions permits trading
- Subsidies as a tool of environmental policy
- Environmentally harmful subsidies
2.4 Economic effectiveness of pollution control
- Quantitative regulation
- Basic functions and criteria for choice of market-based instruments
- Basis for selecting market-based instruments
2.5 Decision-making and environment
- The method of cost-benefit analysis and the problem of time
- Integration of environmental considerations into the decision making process
2.6 Environmental economics and sustainable development
- The development of environmental thinking
- Prospects for humanity
- The concept of sustainable development – definitions and conditions
- The principles of sustainable development
2.7 Environmental economics and environmental policy
- Overview distributional effects of environmental policy instruments
- Relationship environmental policy and environmental economics.