Environmental Economics

Major: Environmental Protection Technology
Code of subject: 6.183.00.O.23
Credits: 3.00
Department: Ecological Politics and Environment Protection Management
Lecturer: PhD, Associate professor Roman Rusyn-Hrynyk
Semester: 4 семестр
Mode of study: денна
Learning outcomes: As a result of studying the academic discipline, the student should be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes: K16. Ability to manage (placement and disposal) of waste determine the economic evaluation of certain types of natural resources; apply indicators of economic assessment of natural resources when calculating the effectiveness of environmental protection measures and forming payments for their use; apply economic, administrative and market levers for regulating environmental protection activities; use existing methods and recommendations for calculating economic losses; perform calculations on the assessment of economic damage in accordance with the methods; choose the optimal option for calculating the effectiveness of environmental protection measures. The study of an academic discipline involves the formation and development of students' competencies: general: K08 Efforts to preserve the environment and ensure the sustainable development of society the ability to use professionally profiled knowledge and practical skills from fundamental disciplines in environmental protection processes; the ability to apply knowledge and understanding to solve qualitative and quantitative problems related to the elimination of man-made pollution; ability to evaluate, interpret and synthesize information and data; the ability to define and apply the science of environmental protection and balanced nature management; skills of written and oral presentation of scientific and practical material. professional: FCS1.2 the ability to formulate new ideas and tasks in the field of informational environmental protection technologies, to choose appropriate directions and appropriate methods of their solution; FCS1.3 the ability to use modern technology and equipment to protect the air environment the ability to use the regulatory and legislative framework for the organization and control of environmental protection activities in Ukraine; the ability to demonstrate the functions of the state management system in the system of environmental protection activities; the ability to apply the concept of payment for nature use; the ability to identify, classify and describe the principles of environmental policy implementation in Ukraine; the ability to identify administrative, economic, and market levers of nature management factors; the ability to investigate and define the problem, as well as to identify limitations, in particular those related to the issues of the functioning mechanism of fees for the use of certain types of natural resources; the ability to demonstrate an understanding of the mechanism of operation of the environmental pollution charge.
Required prior and related subjects: - Ecology of the environment - General ecology and non-ecology - Soil science - Ecological safety - Sustainable development strategy - Environmental monitoring
Summary of the subject: Economics of nature as a science. Organization of management in the field of environmental protection. Economic mechanism of nature management .. Administrative levers in the field of nature management. Economic instruments in the field of nature management. Fee for the use of natural resources. Payment for environmental pollution. Ecological - economic damage and methods of its determination. Ecological and economic efficiency of nature management. Greening of the economy and resource-ecological security. Market levers of nature management. Scientific and technical progress in nature management.
Assessment methods and criteria: Current control (30%): written works, oral examination. Final control (70%): exam; test tasks (60%) oral component (10%).
Recommended books: 1. "Economics of nature use" [Electronic resource]: electronic. educational method complex / national Lviv Polytechnic University; comp.: Bets M.T., Danko T.I. - Access mode: http://vns.lpnu.ua/course/view.php?id=4204). – Synopsis of lectures; method. instructions for practice. classes and control work; glossary. 2. Development and reproduction of the resource potential of subjects of ecological and economic, tourist and eco-information systems: monograph / collective of authors; for sciences ed. M.S. Painted. - Lviv: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2015. – 340 p. 3. Economics of nature use: M.T. Bets, S.V. Knyaz, G.Ya., Ilnytska-Hykavchuk, O.P. Makar, N.P. Yavorska - Training manual. - Lviv: "Liga-press" LLC, 2014. - 316 p. 4. Economics of nature use and management of nature protection activities: monograph / for the science. ed. Dr. Econ. of Sciences S.V. Knyazya.-Lviv: Publishing House of Lviv Polytechnic, 2014. – 372 p. 5. Code of Ukraine "On Subsoil", Law of 27.07.1994 No. 133/94-VR / Bulletin of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine (VVR), 1994, No. 36, Article 340. - [Electronic resource]. Access mode: http://zakon2.rada.gov.ua/laws/show/pro nadra.