The course aims at developing the following competencies and abilities:
•To understand the economic nature of environmental problems
•To analyse the relation between natural resources and economics
•To understand the rationale of governmental action
•To critically assess the potential advantages and disadvantages of alternative policy tools which might help to sustain a ‘circular economy’
Main Topics:
•An overview on sustainability and circular economy
•The relation between the economy and the environment
•The economic functions of the environment
•The material balance, IPAT identity, EKC curve
•Natural resources and the circular economy: optimal management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources
•The roots of environmental problems and the role of environmental politics
•Efficiency, optimality, public goods and externalities.
•Integrated assessment models (IAMs): climate and economy models.
•Microeconomic modelling for the energy and the environment
•To understand the economic nature of environmental problems
•To analyse the relation between natural resources and economics
•To understand the rationale of governmental action
•To critically assess the potential advantages and disadvantages of alternative policy tools which might help to sustain a ‘circular economy’
Main Topics:
•An overview on sustainability and circular economy
•The relation between the economy and the environment
•The economic functions of the environment
•The material balance, IPAT identity, EKC curve
•Natural resources and the circular economy: optimal management of renewable and non-renewable natural resources
•The roots of environmental problems and the role of environmental politics
•Efficiency, optimality, public goods and externalities.
•Integrated assessment models (IAMs): climate and economy models.
•Microeconomic modelling for the energy and the environment
- Teacher: Marta Castellini
- Teacher: Nadiia Matsiuk