| Course Unit Code | 118-0300/07 |
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| Number of ECTS Credits Allocated | 4 ECTS credits |
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| Type of Course Unit * | Choice-compulsory |
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| Level of Course Unit * | First Cycle |
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| Year of Study * | Second Year |
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| Semester when the Course Unit is delivered | Summer Semester |
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| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face |
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| Language of Instruction | Czech |
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| Prerequisites and Co-Requisites | Course succeeds to compulsory courses of previous semester |
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| Name of Lecturer(s) | Personal ID | Name |
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| SMO20 | prof. Ing. Dušan Smolík, DrSc. |
| KER30 | prof. Ing. Jiří Kern, CSc. |
| S1O70 | RNDr. Ivan Šotkovský, Ph.D. |
| SUH33 | prof. Ing. Jan Sucháček, Ph.D. |
| DRA099 | doc. Ing. Magdaléna Drastichová, Ph.D. |
| URM003 | Ing. Jaroslav Urminský, Ph.D. |
| Summary |
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In the first part of the subject, knowledge about spatial aspects of economic
processes will be developed. Current regional-political measures in the Czech
Republic and at the level of the EU as well as the tasks of the minicipalities
will be discussed as well. The second part includes an introduction in to
environmental economics as a theory of environmental policy. It is focused on
economical aspects of degradation of an environment and explaining of basic
economic tools of environmental policy. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit |
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After completing the part of environmental economics students should be able to:
Define the basic concepts and principles of environmental economics,
Explain the concepts of externality, market failure, market-based incentives for environmental protection and regulation of pollution,
Explain the concept of sustainable development, basic principles and alternative approaches to the transition towards sustainable development.
After completing the part of regional economics students should be able to:
Define and interpret basic concepts and principles of regional economy, regional processes and regional policy.
Analyze and categorize regional disparities and types of problem regions.
Describe and explain blueprint paper and forms support regional development.
Explain meaning regional management, marketing and networks.
Explain differences among urban and rural sociology, and compare basic approaches to transaction sociological research in region and community.
Clarify roles cities and municipality at regional development. |
| Course Contents |
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1 REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1.1 Regional economics, localization and participants
- Trends in global localization of economic activities
- Spatial concept in economics, from localization to the regional economy and actors
- Regional innovation potential
1.2 Regional disparities, analysis and typology of regions
- Regional disparities and what to do with them?
- Regionalization, differentiation and classification of the regions
- Partial of regional analysis and Lorenz curve
1.3 Spatial and socio-demographic characteristics of the population
- Population size, territorial distribution, structure and methods of measurement of demographic processes
- The current dynamics of the spatial components of population movement (generally, in the Czech Republic and in the world)
- Spatial population movements, settlement of hierarchy and urbanization
1.4 Social aspects of regional development and territorial marketing
- Social aspects of regional development
- Territorial marketing
1.5 Strategic management, project management, and regional and local development
- Strategic and operational management, and regional development documents (examples from Czech Republic)
- Specifics types of regional management and regional manager
- Project - attributes and content management of the efforts of people and institutions to create a unique place of activities, the region
1.6 Regional policy and Municipalities
- Definitions, approaches and contemporary regional policy objectives
- Principles and system programming; institution of regional policy in the Czech Republic
- The role of municipalities in regional development.
2 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2.1 Introduction – The development of economic thinking and the environmental economics, the relationship between the economy and the environment
- The outline of the historical development of economic thinking
- Introduction into the Environmental Economics
- Basic definitions and functions of the environment
- Relationship between the economy and the environment
2.2 An Introduction to economics of pollution – the theory of externalities
- Pollution such as externalities
- Nature and causes of externalities
- Externality internalize under perfect and imperfect competition
- Optimal level of negative externalities
- Causes and main types of externalities
- Analysis of the effects of the existence of externalities in the theory of welfare
2.3 Economic instruments of environmental policy
- Optimization externalities through the market
- Green taxes and optimal pollution
- The charges in combination with quantitative control
- Emissions permits trading
- Subsidies as a tool of environmental policy
- Environmentally harmful subsidies
2.4 Economic effectiveness of pollution control
- Quantitative regulation
- Basic functions and criteria for choice of market-based instruments
- Basis for selecting market-based instruments
2.5 Decision-making and environment
- The method of cost-benefit analysis and the problem of time
- Integration of environmental considerations into the decision making process
2.6 Environmental economics and sustainable development
- The development of environmental thinking
- Prospects for humanity
- The concept of sustainable development – definitions and conditions
- The principles of sustainable development
2.7 Environmental economics and environmental policy
- Overview distributional effects of environmental policy instruments
- Relationship environmental policy and environmental economics. |
| Recommended or Required Reading |
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| Required Reading: |
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TO PART OF THE REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1. ARMSTRONG, H. and TAYLOR, J. Regional Economics and Policy. Third edition. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers LTD., 2000. 450 p. ISBN 0-631-21657-X.
TO PART ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
2. HARRIS, Jonathan, M. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach. 2nd Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 978-0618496334. |
K ČÁSTI REGIONÁLNÍ EKONOMIE
1. MALINOVSKÝ, Jan a Jan SUCHÁČEK. Velký anglicko-český slovník regionálního rozvoje a regionální politiky EU. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, 2006. ISBN 80-248-1117-0.
2. ŠOTKOVSKÝ, Ivan. Socioekonomická geografie. Prostředí lidské činnosti. Ostrava: VŠB – TU Ostrava, 2012. 206 S. ISBN 978-80-248-2624-0.
K ČÁSTI ENVIRONMENTÁLNÍ EKONOMIE
3. ŠIMÍČKOVÁ, Marcella a Magdaléna DRASTICHOVÁ. Ekonomie udržitelnosti – alternativní přístupy a perspektivy. Ostrava: VŠB – technická univerzita Ostrava, 2013. ISBN 978-80-248-3286-9.
4. ŠIMÍČKOVÁ, Marcella. Environmentální ekonomie I. Ostrava: VŠB - TU Ostrava, 2002.
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| Recommended Reading: |
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To part of the REGIONAL ECONOMICS
1. ČERNÁ, Ĺubice a Martina JAKÁBOVÁ. Project Cycle Management. Bratislava: Slovenská technická univerzita, 2008. 101 s. ISBN 978-80-227-2822-5.
2. HAYTER, Roger. Dynamic of Industrial Location. Chichester, New York, …: John Wiley&sons, 2000. 484 p. ISBN 0-471—97119-7.
3. STIMSON, Robert, J., Roger R. STOUGH a Brian H. ROBERTS. Regional Economic Development. Analysins and Planning Stratgy. Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. ISBN 3-540-43731-2.
4. VANHOVE, Norbert and Leo H. KLAASSEN. Regional Policy - European Approach. Avenburg, …, Gower Publisching Company Limited, 1987. ISBN 0-566-05413-2.
To part ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
5. FIELD, Barry, C. a Martha K. FIELD. Environmental Economics: An Introduction. 5th Edition. New York: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2009. ISBN 9780073375762.
6. TIETENBERG, Tom a Lynne LEWIS. Environmental Economics and Policy. 6th Edition. Addison-Wesley, 2009. ISBN 9780321599490.
7. HACKETT, Steven, C. Environmental and natural resources economics: Theory,policy and the sustainable society. 2nd Edition. Armonk,, New York, London: M. E. Sharpe, 2001. ISBN 0-7656-0681-X.
8. KOOTEN van, Comelis, G. and Erwin, H. BULTE. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets. Oxford UK: Blackwell Publisher, 2000. ISBN 0-631-21895-5. |
K ČÁSTI REGIONÁLNÍ EKONOMIE
1. BUČEK, Milan, Štefan REHÁK a Josef TVROŇ. Regionálna ekonómia a politika. Bratislava: lura Edition, 2010. ISBN 978-80-8078-362-4.
2. KUTSCHERAUER, Alois, Renáta VÁCLAVKOVÁ, Jan MALINOVSKÝ a kol. Komplementární přístupy k podpoře regionálního a municipálního rozvoje. Ostrava: VŠB – technická univerzita Ostrava, 2013. ISBN 978-80-248-3285-2.
3. MAIER, Günter a Franz TÖDTLING. Regionálna a urbanistická ekonomika. Regionálny rozvoj a regionálna politika. Bratislava: ELITA, 1998. 314 S. ISBN 80-8044-049-2.
Další zdroje:
4. MINISTERSTVO PRO MÍSTNÍ ROZVOJ ČR. Regionální politika [online]. Portál Ministerstva pro místní rozvoj ČR. [cit. 2012-05-20]. Dostupné z: http://www.mmr.cz/.
5. REGIONÁLNÍ RADA REGIONU SOUDRŽNOSTI Moravskoslezsko. Komplexní informační servis pro klienty regionální rady regionu soudržnosti Moravskoslezsko [online]. Portál regionální rady. [cit. 2012-05-20]. Dostupné z: http://www.rr-moravskoslezsko.cz/moznosti-financni-podpory.
K ČÁSTI ENVIRONMENTÁLNÍ EKONOMIE
6. FIELD, BARRY, C. A MARTHA K. FIELD. ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS: AN INTRODUCTION. 5TH EDITION. NEW YORK: MCGRAW-HILL/IRWIN, 2009. ISBN 9780073375762.
7. HARRIS, Jonathan M. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics: A Contemporary Approach. 2nd Edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN 978-0618496334. |
| Planned learning activities and teaching methods |
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| Lectures |
| Assesment methods and criteria |
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| Task Title | Task Type | Maximum Number of Points
(Act. for Subtasks) | Minimum Number of Points for Task Passing |
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| Exercises evaluation | Credit | 85 (85) | 43 |
| Written exam | Written test | 43 | 22 |
| Written exam | Written test | 42 | 21 |