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Teacher
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BLASI Emanuele
(syllabus)
The courses topics are collected into the following three main thematic groups.
I. Economics: an outline of the history of economic thought, the economic system, the market, demand and supply curves, outlines of consumer theory and production theory,
II. Environmental and natural resources economics: classification of goods, concept of externality, natural resources and scarcity, market failures, social costs, private costs, taxes and subsidies, economy of forest resources and international environmental policies.
III. Economic evaluation: definition and aims of the estimate, methods and procedures, hints of financial mathematics, the value of wood and the forests values, the evaluation of pollution, fire damages, the Total Economic Value, introduction to cost and benefit analysis, estimative metric calculation and project evaluations.
(reference books)
Turner R.K, Pearce D.W., e Bateman I. Enviromental Economics. An Elementary Introduction. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
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