Terminated in academic year 2012/2013

Environmental Economics

Type of study	Doctoral
Language of instruction	Czech
Code	546-0930/02
Abbreviation	EE
Course title	Environmental Economics
Credits	10
Coordinating department	Department of Environmental Engineering
Course coordinator	Ing. Marcella Šimíčková, CSc.

Subject syllabus

• Economic aspects of environmental degradation.
• Methods and instruments to internalize the cost 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).

E-learning

not been implemented

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.

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