D103IZ - Economy of environment and sustainable development �
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| Course title | Economy of environment and sustainable development � | |||
| Acronym | D103IZ | |||
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| Lecturer/Associate (for OTC) | ||||
| ESPB | 4.0 | Status | ||
| Condition | Облик условљености | |||
| The goal | Understanding of key theoretical and empirical contents of environmental protection in the context of realisation of sustainable development concepts. Harmonisation of technological changes with ecology principles and postulates of social balance. Sustainability of contemporary economic structure and its inter-generation harmonisation in economic, social and ecologic sense. Sustainable development, as an answer to economic and technological challenges for environment and natural resources. Realisation of strategies of sustainable development for the EU and Serbia - policy, measures and laws, with a view to achieving macro-economic, social and ecologic objectives in accordance with possible, science-based, democratically adopted principles and solutions. | |||
| The outcome | Possibility for course attendants to harmonise the development trends and objectives of the society in technological, economical and social sense in an independent, professional and theoretically competent manner. Capabilities for team economical-technological analysis and independent judgement of economic and ecology efficiency of the projects regarding public interests. Application of cost-benefit analysis to comprehending ecologic and economic consequences as well as utilisation (management) of renewable and non-renewable resources. | |||
| Contents | ||||
| Contents of lectures | Economics, market and environment - controversies of relations. Externalities and pollution economics. Sustainable development - economic, ecologic and social content, moral principles and notion of inter-generation and intra-generation justice. Three key pillars of sustainable development: knowledge-based economy, balanced social system, protection of resources and environment. Global market, globalisation and sustainable development. Economics of climate changes and sustainable development. Companies and corporate social responsability. Sustainable development and protection of natural resources - the world and Serbia. Sustainable production and consumption in industry, transportation, agriculture... Economics and ecology of protection of waters, air and land. Concept of sustainable development of Serbia: National Strategy of Sustainable Development of the Republic of Serbia - elements, objectives and possibilities for realisation - local, national, European and global dimension. | |||
| Contents of exercises | Application of methodology and instruments of environmental economics to environmental state analises and sustainable development trends in Serbia. Calculation of internal and external values of economic activity costs. Calculation of natural rent on renewable and non-renewable natural resources, current and future values and market trends of resource values. Discount calculation on the examples of energy and material efficiency. Practical analysis of product life cycle. Examples of sustainable production and consumption, as well as of good industrial practice in accordance with the principles of sustainable development. | |||
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| Lectures | Exercises | OTC | Study and Research | Other classes |
| 2 | ||||
| Methods of teaching | Lectures, workshops, discussion - interactive lessons. Analysis (presentation and discourse) of students' seminar works. Team presentations of analyses of individual eco-engineering projects, analysis of the content of documents and students' homeworks. Joined analysis of the content of individual strategic and legal documents in the area of protection of environment and natural resources. | |||
| Knowledge score (maximum points 100) | ||||
| Pre obligations | Points | Final exam | Points | |
| Activites during lectures | 5 | Test paper | 40 | |
| Practical lessons | 5 | Oral examination | ||
| Projects | ||||
| Colloquia | 30 | |||
| Seminars | 20 | |||