B029615 - ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

Italian

Society, environment and economic process - Sustainable development and the building of environmental policies - the big issues (energy, climate change, water resources, biodiversity- ogm, waste) - Normative, fiscal, voluntary environmental tools for economic activities - corporate social responsibility - environmental indicators, evaluation of environmental goods, environmental Projects assessment, environmental macroeconomic accounting.

The books of M. Tinacci Mossello, Environmental Policy. Project Actions Analysis, Bologna, Il Mulino, 2008 (parts 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12) and of F. Dini, P. Romei, F. Randelli, Geografia economica. Mercati, imprese, ambiente e lke sfide del mondo contemporaneo, Milano, Mondadori, 2020 (capp. 4, 5 8) are the main references of the examination program. Other documentary and statistical materials will be made available on the Moodle Unifi e-learning platform

The course aims to provide students with an adequate theoretical and applying knowledge of the relationships with the environment in contemporary societies, improving their understanding through updated tools for analysis and the study of the main policies and regulations. This will allow us to observe the most significant problems in the interaction between anthropic activities, natural resources and ecosystems, the role of Institutions and their mediation between market and environment. Lectures contain large references to scenarios and concrete issues at the international, national, regional scales.
KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: to provide students with information packages and theoretical interpretation tools that enable an adequate understanding of the relationship between erconomic activities and the environment
APPLIED KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING: support students in the practical elaboration of the most current sustainability issues and improve their argumentation skills through the possession of greater linguistic and conceptual variety.
JUDGMENTAL AUTONOMY: To develop students' ability to deal analytically and methodologically richly with the discussion of the relationship between anthropogenic activities and ecosystems, and autonomous reflection around the economic, political, scientific and ethical logics related to it.

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Lectures with ppt support and audio-visual material.
Classroom interventions by experts. Lectures discuss, select and elaborate on the content of the reference texts, and are essential for the preparation of the attending program. Students who cannot attend lectures prepare for the exam on a specific program indicated on the course moodle page.

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Oral mode. Particularly the exam will verify: (1) information and knowledge on the topics of the exam schedule. (2) Accuracy of language, in particular the ability to use a correct descriptive and interpretative language. (3) Ability to combine the theoretical models presented in the lessons with the processes and the empirical evidences of the current scenario. The final evaluation will be the overall result of these three skills.

The contents of the lectures are indicatively as follows: (1) Environmental policy and environmental politics; (2) human environment relationships; (3) The environmental discourse and the limits question; (4) The role of environment in economic though; (5) Georgescu roegen and Bioeconomics; Daly, eco-efficiency, steady state and ISEW; from bioeconomics to degrowth; (6) The sustainable development paradigm; (7) Rio process 1: Stockholm 1972, Unep, Wced 1983, Brundtland Report 1987; (8) Rio process 2: Rio 1992, UNFCCC, CBD, Agenda 21 (9) Rio process 3: Millennium Goals 2000, Johannesburg 2002; (10) Rio process 4: Rio +20 2012, the crisis and the green economy; (11) Environmental policy: normative and fiscal measures; (12) Voluntary measures and environmental certifications; (13) The corporate social responsibility; (14) Environmental survey, evaluation and accounting: indicators; (15) Definition and evaluation of the ecosystem services; (16) Direct and indirect evaluation of environmental goods; (17) Shadow-prices: definition and examples; (18) Artificial markets; (19) Macroeconomic environmental accounting; (20) Big issues: water, energy and air; (21) Focus on UNFCCC until Paris Agreement and the following debate until Cop 24/2018; (22) Big issues: biodiversity and CBD; (23) Big issues: waste; (24) Focus on waste management in Europe and Italy

Although the software stipulates that only three SDGs can be indicated, the integrated 12 ects course is intimately environmental and all SDGs are implicated.