Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Environmental Management in the EU

Type of study	BachelorFollow-up Master
Language of instruction	English
Code	118-0544/03
Abbreviation	EUMAN
Course title	Environmental Management in the EU
Credits	3
Coordinating department	Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Introduction – development of environmentalism
2. Role of an environmental policy and formation of the policy in frame
of policy cycle
3. Goals, principles, and tools of environmental policy
4. Historical review - development of an international environmental policy
5. Development of international environmental policy towards
sustainability
6. Beginning of environmental policy formation in EC
7. Development of the EC environmental policy untill 1990
8. EC policy towards sustainability – the first wave of environmental
policy integration process
9. Deepening of the integration process and legislative framework of
the sustainability policy
10. Third wave of the environmental policy integration of environmental
consideration into other policy areas
11. New wave of the integration process - from Cardiff to Helsinki and
beyond
12. The Sixth Environment Action Programme of the European
Community “Environment 2010: Our future, Our choice”
13. Cardiff integration process and completing of the Lisbon
Strategy /2000-2005/
14. Deepening of the political process - Review of the EU Sustainable
Development Strategy

Literature

1. Manual of Environmental Policy. The EU and Britain,
http://www.mep-online.com/
2. EU Environmental Policy Handbook – A Critical Analysis of EU Environmental
Legislation. 2005. EEB,
3. Environment 2010: Our Future, Our Choice. 6th Environment Action
Programme 2001-2010. http://europe.eea.eu.int/
4. Review of the EU Sustainable Development Strategy 2005
http://europa.eu.int/comm/sustainable/pages/review_en.htm

Advised literature

1. Blowers and Glasbergen. Environmental Policy in an International Context –
Prospects for Environmental Change./III./ Arnold, 1996,
2. BRUNDTLAND, Gro H., et al: Our Common Future : Report of the World
Commission on Environment and Development. Oxford, Oxford University
Press, 1987
3. Richard L. Revesz, Robert N. Stavins: Environmental Law and Policy /in:The
Handbook of Law and Economics, ed A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven
Shavell, Amsterdam: North-Holland/Elsevier Science, 2004
4. Robert N. Stavins: Introduction to the Political Economy of Environmental
regulation {in: The Political Economy of Environmental Regulation} Edward
Elgar Publishing, Inc., January 26, 2004
5. Integrating environmental consideration into other policy areas –
a stocktaking of the Cardiff process COM(2004) 394 final
6. Sustainable Development Indicators to monitor the implementation of the EU
Sustainable Development Strategy SEC(2005) 161 final

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