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Environmental Economics

Summary

Economic aspects of environmental degradation. Nature, causes and negative impacts of the existence of externalities. Methods and instruments for internalising costs (externalities) and optimization of pollution.
The criteria of efficiency and decision-making methods.
Valuing quality of the environment and its changes as a prerequisite for evaluating the effectiveness of measures to protect the environment. Valuation of natural resources, objectives and criteria for the optimal use of natural resources, renewable and non-renewable. Factors affecting the dynamics of the exploitation of natural resources.
Causes and consequences of the globalization of environmental problems. The concept of sustainable development and its measurement.
Alternative approaches to global cooperation in the environmental field (theory and practice).

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.
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.

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.
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.
Tietenberg, T.H.: Environmental Economics and Policy. 4th Edition. Addison
Weasley 2003.
Tietenberg, T.H.: Environmental and Natural Ressource Economics. Addison
Weasley 2005.


Language of instruction čeština, čeština
Code 546-0930
Abbreviation EE
Course title Environmental Economics
Coordinating department Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator Ing. Marcella Šimíčková, CSc.