- Docente: Fabio Zagonari
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: English
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development (cod. 8839)
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from Sep 19, 2023 to Oct 26, 2023
Learning outcomes
The purpose of this course is to present the main environmental ethics in terms of duties and rights in the relationships between humans in current and future generations and between humans and nature. The main sustainability paradigms (i.e. weak sustainability, a-growth, de-growth, strong sustainability) will be discussed in terms of the environmental ethics which characterize them. The main policies to efficiency (i.e. tax, standard, subsidy, permit) and agreements to equity (i.e. Nash bargaining and Kalai- Smorodinski solutions) will be applied to both pollution and resources (i.e. within static and dynamic contexts, with and without interactions) and presented in terms of the sustainability paradigms which typify them.
Course contents
The purpose of this course is to present the main environmental ethics in terms of duties and rights in the relationships between humans and between humans and nature. The main sustainability paradigms (i.e., weak sustainability, a-growth, de-growth, strong sustainability, linear economy, circular economy) will be discussed in terms of the environmental ethics which characterize them. The main environmental policies (taxes, standards, subsidies, permits, conservation areas, harvest rights, national laws and regulations, bilateral and multilateral agreements) will be presented in terms of the sustainability paradigms, which typify them. The structure of this course can be summarized as follows:
- Environmental Ethics
- Environmental Sustainability
- Environmental Policy Measures
- Policies to Achieve Efficiency
- Policies to Achieve Equity
Readings/Bibliography
Zagonari, F. (2022) Environmental Ethics, Sustainability and Decisions: Literature Problems and Suggested Solutions, Springer, Heidelberg
Zagonari, F. (2020) Environmental sustainability is not worth pursuing unless it is achieved for ethical reasons, Nature – Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
Teaching methods
Together with traditional academic lectures, workshops will be organized where each student will present an assigned scientific article from the recent literature, with a subsequent classroom discussion.
Assessment methods
Written exam, 90 minutes, 3 open questions.
Office hours
See the website of Fabio Zagonari