ENSn4669 Institutional and Resource Economics

Fakulta sociálních studií
jaro 2022
Rozsah
2/0/0. 4 kr. Ukončení: zk.
Vyučující
Christian Kimmich, Ph.D., M.Sc. (přednášející)
Claudio Cattaneo, PhD (přednášející)
Garance
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Kontaktní osoba: Mgr. Kateřina Hendrychová
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra environmentálních studií – Fakulta sociálních studií
Rozvrh
Pá 14:00–15:40 P24b
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 20 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 2/20, pouze zareg.: 0/20, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/20
Mateřské obory/plány
Cíle předmětu
This course introduces the students to economic, sociological, and political approaches to institutions, with a focus on economic thought, but including a critical reflection and introduction of alternative analytical approaches. The students should know selected concepts and theories of institutional and resource analysis and be able to understand different applications. Finally, the participants should be prepared to transfer parts of the acquired knowledge to cases of their own interest.
Výstupy z učení
After this course participants will have gathered a basic understanding of the concepts of institutions related to natural resources and the environment. The students should understand the relevance and limitations of different approaches to institutional and resource analysis; be able to explain alternative approaches to institutional and resource analysis of water, energy, and land in the context of agriculture, forestry, and fisheries and critically reflect their implications; be able to use and apply simple models, and get an intuition of complex system dynamics; understand and interpret applications and underlying methods; be able to transfer and apply the acquired knowledge to a self-selected case.
Osnova
  • Two lectures will be presented by Claudio Cattaneo:
  • 1st class (18th of March): "Doughnot economics: From Planetary Boundaries to thinking how an economy can be regenerative by design" bridges ecological economics (which says that the economy is always entropic) and industrial ecology / urban ecology (which aim at designing pruducts and cities that are the most circualr as possible with respect to the material flows)
  • 2nd (25th of March): "Application of the doughnut at the city scale with Barcelona as an example"
  • 1. Introduction. Basic concepts, course outline, relevance, and applications. 2. Institutions: The individual, the society, and the environment. Definitions and language. Formal and informal rules, rules in-use versus rules in-form, conventions, strategies, motivation, interests, rationality, heuristics, norms, and values. Sociological, economic and political perspectives. 3. Institutions: Coordination and conflict, power, institutional stability, change and evolution. Institutional diversity and pluralism. 4. Classical and New Institutional Economics: different positions, values, and world views. Actor-centred institutionalism and situationism. 5. Property rights and typologies of resource regimes and governance: Private, Club, Common, Open Access, and Public Goods. Governance structures and externalities versus transactions. 6. The Institutional Analysis and Development framework and the Ostrom school of political theory and policy analysis. 8. Resource Economics: The use and limitations of models. Stocks, flows, and funds. Exponential and logistic growth, Gordon-Schaefer models. Renewable and non-renewable resources: water, energy, land and climate change in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. 9. Ecological Resource Economics: towards an intuition of complex system dynamics. Lotka-Volterra models, steady states, stability, tipping points, thresholds, leverage points, resilience and collapse. 10. Applications and methods of Institutional and Resource Economics: Selected cases on exploitation, degradation, erosion, and conservation in agriculture, forestry, and fisheries. Methodological reflection and interactive debate. 11. Group work presentation and discussion on applications selected by the students. 12. Towards Social-Ecological Systems and Sustainability Transformations.
Literatura
    povinná literatura
  • • Vatn, Arild (2005). Institutions and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • • Ostrom, Elinor (2005). Understanding Institutional Diversity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • • Grafton, Q., Adamowicz, W., Dupont, D., Nelson, H., Hill, R. J., & Renzetti, S. (2008). The economics of the environment and natural resources. John Wiley & Sons.
    doporučená literatura
  • • Bromley, D. W., & Paavola, J. (Eds.). (2008). Economics, ethics, and environmental policy: Contested choices. John Wiley & Sons.
  • • Kaufman, B. E. (2006). The institutional economics of John R. Commons: complement and substitute for neoclassical economic theory. Socio-Economic Review, 5(1), 3-45.
  • • Johnson, C. (2004). Uncommon ground: the ‘poverty of history’in common property discourse. Development and change, 35(3), 407-434.
Výukové metody
Lectures and group exercises with short presentations and discussion.
Metody hodnocení
Essay and presentation (50%), and oral exam (50%).
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Další komentáře
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Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2023, jaro 2024, jaro 2025.