| Institute of Food and Resource Economics | |||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | 8 | ||||||||||||
| Duration | 1 semester | ||||||||||||
| Credits | 12 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||
| Course Level | MSc | ||||||||||||
| Examination | evaluation of project report Aid allowed Description of Examination: 13-point scale, internal examiner Dates of Exam: Weight of written exam: 50% Description of Examination: Weight of project report: 50% | ||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures: 1 course modul/week Practicals: 2 hours/week | ||||||||||||
| Block Placement | F7, spring Exercises: Wednesdays 14-16 | ||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | 095728 095251 | ||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||
| The objective of this course is to provide a comprehensive introduction to the theoretical, methodological and empirical aspects of environmental management from an applied environmental economics point of view - refering to paradigms and indication of sustainability, environmental dispute resolution, environmental management systems and natural concervancy 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 ressource 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 organise 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 decisions 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 legal/administrative frameworks can be translated effectively and economiclally efficient in increased environmental protection as well as natural conservation projects and public health initiatives(institutional economics approaches). Complementary to the environmental and resource economics´ focus 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 strategic and operative management, EMAS/ISO-Certification). Participatory environmental management approaches (negotiations, moderation, mediation) particularly aim at balancing out of conflicting 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 sustainability and their socio-economic background. 2. Interactions of social and natural systems and their ecological economics background. 3. Institutional economics approaches to natural concervancy management and administration. 4. Participatory approaches to the solution of environmental conflicts. 5. Incentive based approaches to environmental management in firms and industries. | |||||||||||||
| Teaching And Learning Methods | |||||||||||||
| Teaching will be done as lectures and practical and supervision of project work. The lectures will refer to the central topics of the syllabus, while the practical will focus on an deepening of the understanding of the course contents. Project work in the form of case studies will be carried through in groups of 2, 3 or 4 students or individually. Projects will consist of (1) theoretical, (2) methodological, and (3) empirical subjects. Students are expected to allocate the quality of their course work equally between syllabus related and project related work. The "self developed case study" is to be independently developed, researched and conducted by the course participants themselves. It is based on a topic closely related to the course content and explicitly awarded by the course responsible. Furthermore the participants are giving an oral presentation of the project of 20 min. length with group discussion afterwards." | |||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||
| Abe, J.M.; Dempsey, P.E. and Bassett, D.A.: Business Ecology - Giving your Organisation the Natural Edge, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1998. 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 Economics, The University of Michigan Press, 2000. Kok, A.: Economics of Environmental Management, Prentice Hall, 1999. Soederbaum, P.: Ecological Economics, Earthscan, 2000. Van Kooten, D.C. and Bulte E.H.: The Economics of Nature - Managing Biological Assets, Blackwell, 2000. Welford, R. (Ed.): Corporate Environmental Management - Systems and Strategies, Earthscan, 1998. | |||||||||||||
| 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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