Environmental Economics

Environmental Economics
118-9504/01
angličtina

Summary

A brief history of economic theory and the integration of environmental considerations into economic theory. Key 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. Environmental economics as a theoretical basis for the formation of environmental policy - development of the system of economic instruments for environmental protection and distribution effects. Development of methods for deciding on the optimal use of essential environmental functions (methods of valuation of environmental goods , optimization and decision-making methods) . Problems discounting, and uncertainty. Limits of Environmental Economics and alternatively approaches and theoretical concepts (ecological economics and institutional economics, etc.). The process of globalization and its impacts (positive, negative) on the main areas of sustainable development. Institutional development as a prerequisite to 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..
ŠIMÍČKOVÁ, M. DRASTICHOVÁ, M. (2013) Ekonomie udržitelnosti – alternativní přístupy a perspektivy. Ostrava: VŠB-TU Ostrava, EkF, SAEI 2013, vol. 21. ISBN 978-80-248-3286-9.
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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Language of instruction	angličtina
Code	118-9504
Abbreviation	ENVIRO
Course title	Environmental Economics
Coordinating department	Department of Regional and Environmental Economics
Course coordinator	doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D.