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
• 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