Infopaket

Environmental Economics

ОК 3

Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП

First

2021/2022

2 Semester

3

PLO 15. To demonstrate the basic skills of creative and critical thinking in research and professional communication. PLO 17. To perform multidisciplinary analysis of socioeconomic phenomena and problems in one or more professional fields, taking into account risks and possible socio-economic consequences. PLO 24. To demonstrate the ability to act socially and consciously on the basis of ethical principles, to appreciate and respect cultural diversity, individual differences of people.

Full-time form

1. To know about major environmental, economic and social challenges and issues of mankind; basics terms of economics as well as general knowledge about government, business and society's duties and responsibilities. 2. To be able to analyze information, to take a decision at own response. 3. To have skills in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel.

The course explores the most critical topics in environmental economics today. In a world of increasing scarcity and competing demands, economic analysis can guide public policy to efficient utilization of resources. Market failures are the cause of many of our most serious environmental and social problems but can remedied with economic tools. Topics covered in this course include the economics of population growth, poverty and income distribution, market failures, economic valuation, economic incentive instruments. Сase studies will supplement course assignments and facilitate discussions centered on current issues. After this course, students will gain an understanding of the environmental issues and the economic incentive instruments and valuation methodologies that can employed to protect, improve or conserve the environment.

1. Eloi Laurent The New Environmental Economics. Wiley; January 2020. 463 p. 2. Jeffrey D. Sachs, Christian Kroll, Guillaume Lafortune, Grayson Fuller, Finn Woelm Sustainable Development Report 2021. The Decade of Action for the Sustainable Development Goals. Cambridge university press, 2021. 518 p. (URL: https://www.infobooks.org/free-sustainable-development-books-pdf/). 3. Kharlamova G., Melnychuk O., Antonyuk L., Chala N., Humenna О., Radchuk А., Shnyrkov О., Stolyarchuk Y., Taruta S., Zhylinska O., Moscardini А. Ukraine 2030. The Doctrine of Sustainable Development — Kyiv: «ADEF-Ukraine» PH, 2018. — 164 p. 4. Handbook on Sustainable Public rocurement Integration Sustainability Criteria into Public Procurement Procedures/ Nikitchenko Y., Berzina S., Buzan G. – State Ecology Academy of Postgraduate Education and Management at the Ministry of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine, 2016. – 143 p.

Lectures, seminar classes, self-independent work.

Tests, surveys, discussions, case study, analytical and practical tasks, modular tests, final test.

English