Course Unit Page
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Teacher Rainer Andergassen
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Learning modules Alessandro Tavoni (Modulo 1)
Rainer Andergassen (Modulo 2)
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Credits 12
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SSD SECS-P/01
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Teaching Mode Traditional lectures (Modulo 1)
Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
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Language English
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Campus of Rimini
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Degree Programme Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Resource Economics and Sustainable Development (cod. 8839)
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Course Timetable from Feb 14, 2022 to Mar 15, 2022
Course Timetable from Apr 20, 2022 to May 25, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.



Academic Year 2021/2022
Learning outcomes
The course aims at providing the students with the tools to understand issues related to the economics of natural resources and its relationship with economic sustainability. In particular, students will learn how to use and interpret models of forestry, fisheries, pollutant emissions, resource extraction and harvesting. They will also be able to assess the sustainability of economic systems if the individuals' welfare depends on the creation and harvesting of renewable resources as well as on the extraction of non-renewable resources.
Course contents
Part 1 (Prof. A. Tavoni)
A Primer in Behavioral Economics
1) Decision-Making Under Certainty
2) Decision-Making Under Risk and Uncertainty
3) Strategic Interaction
4) Game Theory
Applications to Environmental Problems
5) Class Experiments
6) Cooperation in the local commons
7) International Environmental Agreements
8) Climate Negotiations Games
Part 2 (Prof. R. Andergassen)
Environmental pollution
1) Trade and environment: classical theorems and environmental resources
Natural resource exploitation
2) Efficient and optimal use of natural resources
3) Optimal Resource Extraction: non-renewable resource
4) Stock Pollution Problems
5) Renewable resources
Readings/Bibliography
A Course in Behavioral Economics, by Erik Angner (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
R. Perman, Y. Ma, M. Common, D. Maddison, J. McGilvray, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics , Addison Wesley (Pearson), 4th edition.
Teaching methods
Traditional lectures.
Assessment methods
Assessment methods consist of presentations and assignments and a final exam.
Final exam
The written test (in presence only) will consist of 4 open questions; allotted time: 60 minutes.
IMPORTANT: extra points for the project in Prof. Tavoni’s part are valid for one exam in the summer session, not for both. Thus, if you take the first exam in the summer session, extra point will not be valid for the second one, should you decide to retake the exam.
Grading is as following:
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<18 fail
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18-23 sufficient
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24-27 good
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28-30 very good
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30L excellent
Teaching tools
https://elearning-cds.unibo.it/course/view.php?id=8967
Office hours
See the website of Rainer Andergassen
See the website of Alessandro Tavoni