Environmental Economics

Major: Environmental Protection Technology
Code of subject: 6.183.00.O.023
Credits: 3.00
Department: Ecological Politics and Environment Protection Management
Lecturer: DrS, Prof. Lesia KUCHER
Semester: 4 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: The study of the discipline involves the formation and development of competencies: Integral competence: The ability to solve complex specialized tasks and solve practical problems of a technical and technological nature in the field of ecology, environmental protection, balanced nature management, or in the learning process, which involves the application of theoretical foundations and methods of environmental protection technologies, and is characterized by the complexity and complexity of conditions. General competences: 05. Ability to make informed decisions. 07. Strive to preserve the environment and ensure the sustainable development of society. Professional competences: 01. To ability to prevent environmental pollution and crisis phenomena and processes. 2.5. To ability to investigate environmental problems and determine limitations, including those caused by anthropogenic, man-made, and production factors affecting environmental safety and the safety of life; 2.7. To ability to argue the choice of nature protection, nature protection and nature restoration methods for solving specialized environmental problems, critically evaluate the obtained results and defend the decisions made.
Required prior and related subjects: Prerequisites: Introduction to the specialty, General ecology and neoecology. Co-requisites: Environmental legislation and environmental law. Postrequisites: Environmental monitoring, Modeling and forecasting of the state of the environment.
Summary of the subject: Topic 1. Essence, subject, methods and tasks of the course «Environmental economics». The modern scale of human influence on nature and the relevance of the problems of its protection. The concept of nature management, approaches to its understanding. The subject and tasks of the discipline «Environmental economics». Methods of science «Environmental economics». Topic 2. Scientific foundations and principles of rational nature management. Scientific foundations of rational nature management. Problems and principles of rational nature management. State regulation of environmental protection activities in Ukraine. Topic 3. Basics of the concept of sustainable development. The essence of sustainable development, approaches to its understanding. Directions and tools for solving problems of sustainable development. Indicators and indicators of sustainable development. Topic 4. Economic effectiveness of nature protection measures. The essence of efficiency environmental protection measures. Methodology for determining the economic efficiency of environmental protection measures. Methodology for determining the effectiveness of investment environmental protection projects based on discounted rates. Topic 5. Economic mechanism of rational nature management. The essence and structure of the economic mechanism of rational nature management. Fee for use of natural resources. Basic approaches to the economic evaluation of natural resources. Topic 6. Economics of land use. Land pollution in agro-industrial production and its consequences. Theoretical foundations of the economic assessment of land. Concept of land price. Normative monetary assessment of agricultural lands. Assessment of economic losses from pollution of land resources. Topic 7. Economics of forest use. State of forest use in Ukraine. Economic assessment of forest resources. Economic damage due to violation of forest protection legislation. Losses from destruction and damage to forests. Topic 8. Economics of water use. The value of water resources and problems of water supply in Ukraine. Economic assessment of water resources. Determining damages from pollution of water sources. Topic 9. Economy of clean air. Anthropogenic influence on the atmosphere and its consequences. Organizational and economic measures for the protection of atmospheric air. Calculation of compensation for damages from atmospheric air pollution. Topic 10. Ecological and economic problems of waste and their use. Problems of waste management and prospects of secondary resource use in Ukraine. Environmental assessment of zero-waste production. Topic 11. Basics of circular economy. Concept of circular economy. Key tools and principles of the circular economy. Implementation of circular economy based on European experience. Topic 12. Market levers of nature management. Ecological management. Ecological marketing. Ecological insurance. Ecological audit. Topic 13. Scientific and technical progress and innovations in nature management. Prerequisites of environmentalization of scientific and technological progress. Mechanism of market formation of ecological innovations. Alternative energy sources as a direction of NTP. Topic 14. development of green business. Prerequisites for the development of green business. EU policy on the development of green business. Development of green business in Ukraine. Topic 15. Environment of activity of «green» enterprises. Possibilities for the development of green business of Ukraine in the context of EGC. Organization and efficiency of the green office at the enterprise. Services for the development of environmentally friendly business.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control (30%): practical works, test control, individual work, oral survey. Final control (70%): practical tasks (60%); oral component (10%).
Recommended books: 1. Danylyshyn B. M., Khvesyk M. A., Golyan V. A. Economics of nature use: textbook. Kyiv: Condor, 2010. 465 p. 2. Comprehensive economic assessment of natural resources: monogr. / ed. M. A. Khvesyk. Kyiv: State University of IEPSR of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 2013. 206 p. 3. Kucher L.Yu., Kucher A.V. Economics of nature use: textbook. Kharkiv: FOP Fedorko M. Yu., 2022. 302 p. 4. Melnyk L. G., Sotnyk I. M., Chygrin O. Yu. Economics of natural resources: textbook. Sumy: University Book, 2010. 348 p. 5. Basics of ecology. Ecological economics and management of nature use: textbook / eds. L. G. Melnyk, M. K. Shapochka. Sumy: University Book, 2015. 759 p. 6. Cherevko G.V., Cherevko G.V., Cherevko I.V., Vasylenka N.I. Economics of nature use: textbook. manual. Lviv: Liga-Press, 2012. 698 p. 7. The main principles of the implementation of the “green” economy model in Ukraine: training. manual / T.P. Galushkina, L.A. Musina, V.G. Potapenko and others; ed. T.P. Galushkina. Kyiv: Institute of Ecological Management and Balanced Nature Management, 2017. 154 p. 8. Acar S., Yeldan E. eds. Handbook of Green Economics. Academic Press, 2020. 190 p.