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Professor Magorzata Burchard-Dziubiska

University of Lodz

Economy and environment 30 hours

1. Physical dimension of economic processes

2. First and second laws of thermodynamic)

3. Natural resources as factor of production

4. Natural resources classification (renewable and nonrenewable)

5. Paradigm of Malthus and Ricardo,

6. Dynamic theory of natural resources

7. The Anthropcen - anthropogenic pressure (pressure caused by settlement and urbanization, agriculture, mining, industry, transportation and services)

8. Global environment problems (based on examples of: global warming, ozone layer depletion, wet and dry acid depositions, degradation of biodiversity, mammal extinction, overfishing, oceans and seas water pollution, desertification)

9. Measure of anthropogenic pressure (ecological footprint, water footprint, carbon footprint, indexes of water, air and soil pollution, surface degradation)

10. Fundamentals of sustainable development

11. Environmental protection as a part of sustainable development

12. Special needs of less developed countries

13. International cooperation in environmental protection

14. Trade and sustainable development

15. Engagement of European Union in international cooperation in environmental protection

16. General characteristic of environmental economics

17. Environmental externalities and their internalization (Pigouvian tax, Coase theorem, market mechanisms)

18. Environmental protection policy tasks, principles and methods

19.Comparative analysis methods of internalization of environmental externalities

20. Financing for environmental protection

21. Introduction to valuation of environment tasks and chosen methods (cost benefit analysis, hedonic pricing, the travel cost model, valuing ecosystem services)Literature:Compulsory:1. M. Burchard- Dziubiska, (ed.) Towards a green economy, University of Lodz, Lodz 2015.

2. Lars Hein, The Economics of Ecosystem, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.

3. Jon C. Lovett, David G. Ockwell, A Handbook of Environmental Management Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.

4. G. Atkinson, S. Dietz, E. Neumayer, Handbook of Sustainable Development, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2010.

5. Nick Hanley, Edward B. Barbier, Pricing Nature, Edward Elgar, 2010.

6. Valentina Bosetti, Modeling Sustainable Development, Edward Elgar Publishing 2009.

Supplementary:

1.Americo Beviglia Zampetti, Fairness In The World Economy - US Perspectives on International Trade Relations, EU Delegation to the UN, New York, 2006.

2. C. de Miguel, Labandeira, X. Manzano B., Economic Modelling Of Climate Change And Energy Policies, Edward Elgar Publishing 2006.

3. Stockholm Declaration 1972.

4.Rio Declaration 1992.

5. Declaration of Johannesburg 2002.Assessment (credits conditions)1. Test and short description of the given topics