Terminated in academic year 2000/2001

Environmental Economics

Type of study	-
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	118-0904/00
Abbreviation	ENVIRO
Course title	Environmental Economics
Coordinating department	Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator	Fiktivní Uživatel

Course aims

After completing the course, students will be able to:
• explain the theoretical basis of economic instruments for environmental policy problems of their practical applications and their advantages in comparison with quantitative tools of regulation,
• summarize the criteria and methods for deciding on the optimal use of the basic features of the environment,
• clarify the nature of the concept of sustainable development and interrelationship of environmental, social and economic development,
• define the limits of environmental economics and alternative approaches to the use of natural resources and sustainable development,
• justify institutional development as a prerequisite to sustainable development,
• identify positive and negative impacts of globalization 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..
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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