TANTÁRGY NEVE: Environmental
Economics
(BA képzés,)
Tárgyfelelős: Dr. Tóthné dr. Szita Klára professor
Javasolt félév: 2015/16. 2. semester
Óraszám (ea+gy): 2+0
Kreditpont: 3
Tantárgy neptun kódja:
GTERG104BA
Tárgyfelelős intézet: Világ- és Regionális
Gazdaságtan Intézet
Tantárgyelem:
Közreműködő oktató: Sebestyénné Szép
Tekla
Előfeltétel: Számonkérés módja: Kollokvium
Tagozat: Nappali/Erasmus students
Tantárgy feladata és célja:
 The improvement of the individual work
 Help in the application of the environment knowledge
 Improvement of the environmental attitude
 The better understanding of the connections between economy and environment
 skills that can develop the application and the understanding of the microeconomical
methods of the environmental economics
 better skills to make a report that based on the methodology of the environmental
responsibility and sustainability
 develop the managing and changing of the human attitude
 skills that can integrate the environmental management tools into the company and
into the management decision-making system
The aim of the subject:
To present the developing of environmental thinking and the object of environmental economics, and to
introduce the relationship between economy and environment, and the methods of problem solutions on macro
and microeconomic level.
Tantárgy tematikus leírása:
Main topics
1. Basic definitions of the Environmental economics
2. Environment and it’s economical content. Environmental economics from the neoclassical economics
to industrial ecology
3. The purpose and the solutions of the environmental regulation, emission trade and the Kyoto Protocol.
New measures of sustainability.
4. Sustainable development
5. Environmental costs and damages
6. Externalities
7. Theory of Pigou, Coase
8. Evaluation of the natural environment
9. Environmental legislation
10. Tools of environmental economics in the micro economy
11. Tools of environmental management (EMAS)
12. Cleaner production
13. Waste minimisation
14. LCA
Félévközi számonkérés módja:
Requirements
 Write an essay and make the presentation of it (15 minutes) during the semester in a
selected topic of the subject in an own view of the presenter using international and
national sources. (50 point). It need to the subscription. Final deadline before
exam period!
Aspect of the evaluation:
Interim task and it’s Deadline end of March:
1. The quality and the quantity of the references (10p).
2. The compliance of the chosen topic and it’s sources (10p).
3. The form and the quality of the presentation (10p)
4. Own opinions and suggestions of the presenter (20p)
End of semester have to take an exam in May (in writing and in oral) (25 - 25 point)
61-70 point : 2
71-80 point: 3
81-90 point: 4
91-100 point:5
Evaluation of the examination (test and oral):
 What is the logical setup of the essay like, and how the student built the
substantive elements and connexions in the essay
 The quality and fairly of the graphs, diagrams
 The usage of the selected and read sources
Exam in not possible without subscription!
Evaluation of the performans (essay and oral exam together)
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End of semester: exam (in writing and oral) (25 - 25 point)
61-70 point : 2
71-80 point: 3
81-90 point: 4
91-100 point:5
Literature:
Jonathan M. Harris: Environmental and Natural Resource Economics A Contemporary
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Economy and the Environment, Chapter 2: Resources,
Environment,
and
Economic
Development,
http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae/publications/textbooks/env_nat_res_economics.html
Steven
W.
Peck
:Industrial
Ecology:
http://newcity.ca/Pages/industrial_ecology.html
From
Theory
To
Practice
Brendan Fisher, R. Kerry Turnera, Paul Morlingb (2009): Defining and classifying
ecosystem services for decision making Ecological Economics Volume 68, Issue 3, 15
January 2009, Pages 643–653
Recommended literature:
Selected paper of Journal of Industrial Ecology http://www.is4ie.org/ and Journal of
Environmental Economics and Management and Ecological Economics.
Kelly Sims Gallagher,Erich Muehlegger (2011):, Giving green to get green? Incentives and
consumer adoption of hybrid vehicle technology Journal of Environmental Economics and
Management Volume 61, Issue 1, January 2011, Pages 1–15
Luna B. Leopold, Frank E. Clarke, Bruce B. Hanshaw, and James R. Balsley (1971): A
Procedure for Evaluating Environmental Impact GEOLOGICAL SURVEY CIRCULAR
645
http://eps.berkeley.edu/people/lunaleopold/%28118%29%20A%20Procedure%20for%20Ev
aluating%20Environmental%20Impact.pdf
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