BTR_ENEK Environmental Economics

Faculty of Economics and Administration
Autumn 2008
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Milan Viturka, CSc.
Department of Regional Economics – Faculty of Economics and Administration
Contact Person: Klára Viturková
Timetable
Sat 11. 10. 14:35–17:05 T VTT2, Sun 2. 11. 12:50–15:20 T1
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
This course deals with economic aspects of landscape development and environmental protection. After describing global environmental problems and the state of the live environment in the CR, students are introduced to principal causes of market failure in the area of environmental goods and also to relevant methods of solution. Accent is given to legal acts, institutional support and to the instruments used in the positive and negative stimulation (especially in the Czech context). Emphasis is also placed on the corresponding strategies, particularly on the strategy of sustainable development and on the decisive instruments and measures stimulating its enforcement (Environmental Impact Assessment Method, Environmental Management System, environmental auditing, ecolabelling etc.). A systematic approach to the environmental protection is, in addition to the environmental policy in the CR, exemplified by The Fifth Environmental Action Programme of the EU.
On the end of this course students should be able to understand, explain and applicate knowledge about basic environmental impacts of economic development.
Syllabus
  • 1. Basic concepts, global environmental problems - atmosphere and climate, water resources, deforestation, extinction of species and other chosen problems.
  • 2. State of environment of the Czech Republic and its development trends - atmosphere, water, soil, biota.
  • 3. Common relation between market economy and environment - concept of externalities, natural resources and its valuation, macro-economic and micro-economic optimum of quality of environment.
  • 4. Legal amendment of environment protection in the Czech Republic - basic and common legal acts, partial legal acts (protection of environment, atmosphere and water).
  • 5. Legal amendment of environment protection in the Czech Republic -partial legal acts (soil protection, waste management, other components of environment), corresponding legal acts, harmonization of legal acts in the Czech Republic with EU.
  • 6. Administration and economic tools in environment protection - tools of positive and negative stimulation.
  • 7. Environment management of firms - EMS, environmental norms, environmental accounting.
  • 8. Strategic approaches to solution of environmental problems - reactive and proactice approaches, actual technologies of waste gases and water purification, waste management, recycling.
  • 9. Concept of sustainable development and chosen tools and precautions supporting its realisation - environmental audit, methods E.I.A. and S.E.A., ecolabelling, ecological tax reform.
  • 10. Natural and territorial aspects of environment protection - territorial systems of ecological stability of landscape, physical planning.
  • 11. Environmental policy - international ecological actions and initiatives, environmental policy of the Czech Reopublic.
  • 12. Instutional ensuring of care concerning of life environment in the Czech Republic - public administration, non-government organizations.
  • 13. Environmental policy in EU - environmental action programmes, interaction between economic and environmental policies.
  • Combined study:
  • 1. block – themes number 1 to 6
  • 2. block – themes number 6 to 13.
Literature
  • Viturka, Milan. Environmentální ekonomie. 1. vyd. Brno : Masarykova univerzita, 2005. 106 s. ISBN 8021036540.
  • Náhradní obsah: Moldán, B. – Braniš, M.: Globální problémy životního prostředí. Portál, Praha 2003.
  • Náhradní obsah: Siebert Horst. Economics of Environment. 27th ed., 2008, 333 p., ISBN 978-3-540-73706-3.
Assessment methods
Forms of examination: written test.
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
The course is taught annually.
Credit evaluation note: k=1.
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