Environmental Economics and Management

Aims of the course

- To develop knowledge of sustainable development and economic dimensions of environment protection.
- To develop an understanding of the environmental policy in the context of economic systems, economic development, environmental policy, environmental accounting, and environmental management.
- Note the relations between economic solutions to the environmental problems at the level of state, region, and enterprise.

Course syllabus

1. Modeling environmental problems.
2. Impact of market and state in environmental economics and management.
3. Market solution and command-control approach to environmental problems on state and enterprise level.
4. Environmental systems and firms (environmental valuation methods)
5. Environment and society (an approach to sustainable development).
6. Market mechanism and environmental problems.
7. Limitations of government and environmental economic policy.
8. Business strategic policy and environmental processes
9. Analytical tools for environmental planning and change management (environmental risk analysis, benefit-cost-benefit analysis, strategic planning)
10. Social and corporate responsibility.
11. Environmental standardization, accounting, decision making and reporting.
12. Environmental management: the case of air
13. Environmental management: the case of water 14.Environmental management: the case of solid wastes and toxic substances
15. Global environmental management: sustainable approach (industrial ecology and pollution prevention).

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