EEM - Environmental Economics and Management

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For students enrolled in the 2024-2025 class

A Google Classroom has been created for the course. Please join the class through the Classroom application. Course code: uwlpzo7  

Learning outcomes

Knowledge and understanding: The course allows students to know the main managerial strategies supporting the company’s transition towards the circular economy.

Apply knowledge and understanding: Students will be able to design circular business models and sustainable business models, also thanks to the experience of project work. At the end of the course, students will be able to assess how much a given business model is sustainable.

Critical and judgment skills: Students will be able to assess ex ante the implications – from the economic, social, and environmental perspective – of a given circular business model.

Communication skills: At the end of the course, students will be able to discuss the topics addressed during the class by using the consolidated terminology, both from the scientific and the managerial perspective.

Learning ability: Students will develop the autonomous ability to study and critically assess the business choices of companies. The use of business games for some topics of the class will allow students to learn by doing.

Syllabus

Environmental Economics

• Relationships between the economy and the environment

• Why do markets fail in protecting the environment

• Renewable and non-renewable resources

• Valuing concern for nature

• The economic control of the environment

Environmental Management

• Circular economy

• Industrial symbiosis

• Global emission chains

• International agreements for environmental protection

• Sustainable Development

Textbook

Turner K., Pearce D., Bateman I. - Environmental Economics: an elementary introduction

Additional material provided by the lecturer

Lectures

• Thursday, 11:00-14:00 hours, Room B2, Diag Department, Via Ariosto 25

• Friday, 16:00-18:00 hours, Room B2, Diag Department, Via Ariosto 25

Although attending the lectures is not mandatory, the attendance is strongly recommended.

Final exam

The examination consists of three steps:

1. a written test with multiple-choice questions, with a maximum score of 20 points;

2. an oral exam, which can adjust the written test score by a minimum of negative infinity to a maximum of +3 points;

3. a project assessment, with a maximum score of 10 points.

Honors are awarded, at the discretion of the instructor, to those who achieve at least 31 points.