| Institute of Food and Resource Economics | |||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination written examination and oral examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: 2 hour written examination Project report and presentation of project report Weight: 2 hour written examination; 50% Project report and presentation: 50% 13-point scale, external examiner Dates of Exam: 23 June 2006 | ||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | Submission of project report | ||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Teaching will be done as lectures and theoretical exercises. The lectures will refer to the central topics of the syllabus. | ||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 4 Week Structure: B | ||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | The course "Environmental and Resource Economics" is a recommended prerequisite. | ||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||
| Basic science: To lay a solid foundation by covering the most relevant topics, lines of economic thinking and model ap-proaches to analyse the implementation of environmental issues in society and economy. Applied science To enable the students to understand and classify real world environmental problems using and combining Environmental Management approaches. Furthermore they should be enabled to understand the economic basis and implications of institutional arrangements with reference to advanced topics of Environmental Management. Competences in ethics and values: The students are supposed to learn to work independentely in the sepcified field, should be able to work together with others, discuss solutions and find consensus. They should also have developed oral and written communicate skills in the subject area. Finally they should have developde a critical attitude towards the application of the learnt facts, methods and theorie | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||
| The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical, methodo-logical and empirical aspects of environmental management from an applied environmental eco-nomics point of view - refering to paradigms and indication of sustainability, environmental dispute resolution, environmental management systems and natural conservancy management. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||
| Environmental management is a collective term for a number of approaches to the implementation of environmental issues in both society and economy. In this course environmental management is viewed as a branch of applied environmental and natural resource economics. Hence the mission of environmental management is (1) to provide methods and concepts for putting environmental goals into effect, (2) to detect, formulate and communicate emerging environmental issues, and (3) to or-ganise environmental protection and natural conservation in practice. Environmental management covers the emergence of environmental issues in the society and their evolution in preliminary stages of political processes (stakeholder approach) as well as the implementation of political deci-sions and laws afterwards (administrational project and control structures). This does also include interactions between the political system and society/economy (different dimensions and levels of sustainability). Environmental management deals explicitly with the question of how le-gal/administrative frameworks can be translated effectively and economically efficient in increased environmental protection as well as natural conservation projects and public health initiatives (insti-tutional economics approaches). Complementary to the environmental and resource economics´ fo-cus on analysis, design and evaluation of environmental policies on the macro-level, environmental management focuses on the economically optimal adaptation of private individuals, social groups, firms and industries to environmental policy on the micro-level (e.g. environmental issues in strate-gic and operative management, EMAS/ISO-Certification). Participatory environmental manage-ment approaches (negotiations, moderation, mediation) particularly aim at balancing out of conflict-ing values and interests when controversial business or environmental protection project are going to be implemented. The main components of the course are: (1) Paradigms and indicators of sus-tainability and their socio-economic background, (2)Interactions of social and natural systems and their ecological economics background, (3) Institutional economics approaches to natural con-cervancy management and administration, (4) Participatory approaches to the solution of environ-mental conflicts, (5) Incentive based approaches to environmental management in firms and indus-tries. | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||
| Teaching will be done as lectures and theoretical exercises. The lectures will refer to the central topics of the syllabus. | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||
| ***Barrow, C.J.: Environmental management - Principles and Practice, Routledge, 1999. ***Blackburn, J.W. and Bruce, W.M.: Mediating Environmental Conflicts: Theory and Practice, Greenwood Press, 1995. ***DeSimone, L.D. and Popoff, F.: Eco-efficiency - The Business Link to Sustainable Evelopment, MIT-press, 1997. ***Furubotn, E.G.: Institutions and Economic Theory: The Contribution of the New Institutional Eco-nomics, The University of Michigan Press, ***Hirshleifer: The Dark Side of the Force, CAmbridge Unievsrity Press ***Or comparable literature | |||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||
| Christian Noell, cno@kvl.dk, Institute of Food and Resource Economics/Environmental Economics and Rural Development Div., Phone: 35282267 | |||||||||||||||||
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