The course is aimed at providing the main tools for acquiring the dimension of the environment in contemporary political, social and economic analysis. From this point of view, the following educational objectives are set in the specific:
- frame the environment in the economic disciplines and acquire the theoretical groundings of the environmental economics and policy
- know the tools framed in the economic theory for identifying, assessing and minimizing threats and/or damages to the environment
- understand the issues of environmental resources (soil, air, water, finite and renewable energy sources) in a short and medium-long term perspective of development economics and development policy
- study the topic of energy as a renewable and non-renewable natural resource and the related environmental issues
- identify the environmental positions, actions and programs of some of the main players in the European and world system
- acquire knowledge of the tools for evaluating the environmental aspects of the investment projects