ECTS
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Course code: RSSS10069o12Semester: 2012/2013 winter
Name: Financing of environmental protection
Major: Environmental Protection
Study Type: first cycle
Course type: compulsory
Study Semester: 7
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: dr inż. Lech Paczkowski, dr inż. Hanna Adamska
Language of instruction: Polish
Learning outcomes: Students become familiar with economic aspects of environmental protection ,current state of environmental resources, as well as the costs of protection of the environment. They also gain the knowledge regarding the rules and state political instruments providing protection of the environment, the mechanisms governing economics – environment contacts and resulting hazards to the environment.
Competences: Students are able to determine and analyze the factors connected with optimal quality of the environment as well as the possibilities of internalization of external effects. They can also define the rules governing rational management of resources ,especially the non – renewable ones and the problems involving balanced development.
Prerequisites: Economy
Course content: The state and predictions regarding alterations in the Earth natural environment. Economic issues to be met by environmental requirements. Free and economic goods, external effects. Optimal quality of the environment. Theoretical basis of resources management. The costs of environmental protection. Eco - development indices considered in their economic, social and environmental aspects.
Recommended literature: 1.Fiedor B. Czaja S., Graczyk A., Jakubczyk A. Podstawy ekonomii środowiska i zasobów naturalnych. Wyd. C.H. Beck, W-wa, 2002. 2.Łojewski S. Ekonomia środowiska. Wyd. ATR Bydgoszcz, 1998. 3.Manteuffel-Szoege H., Zarys problemów ekonomiki ochrony środowiska. Wyd. SGGW, W-wa 2005. 4.Czaja S. Fiedor B., Jakubczyk A. Ekologiczne uwarunkowania wzrostu gospodarczego w ujęciu współczesnej ekonomii. Wyd. Ekonomia i Środowisko, Białystok, Kraków, 1993. 5. Górka K., Poskrobko B. Ekonomika ochrony środowiska. PWE, W-wa. Wyd. II, 1991. 6. Urban M. Zarys ekonomiki ochrony środowiska. Skrypt nr 381. Wyd. Akad. Rol. we Wroc., 1992.
Assessment methods: receiving positive grade for practical classes after 7th semester (obligatory), minimum level of knowledge – 60%
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