82237 - FOOD SYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY LABORATORY

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

The course deals with the economics of the food system sustainability and integrates theoretical and operational understanding on environmental economics, and on economics of environmental policy. It furnishes knowledge on food economics within the conceptual and operational framework of the common-pool resources, and it places emphasis on the relationships between food systems and environmental ones. It endows students with the capacity to design and manage sustainable development strategies and activities, and it provides competences on eco-management tools. By the end of the integrated course, the student is capable to: - analyze challenges and opportunities driven by green economy concepts; - evaluate the economic implications that sustainability implies for the food system management; - desing and develop strategies for competitive and eco-friendly activities of business and public Institutions; - design, implement and manage research and development projects and eco-management schemes based on sustainable criteria.

Contenuti

Introduction

Goals of the course, structure, activities, evaluation

A. Theoretical background

What is sustainability ?

How does economics explain the environmental challenges and opportunities ?

Which repercussions do they imply for business management ?

What’s next for food system and sustainability ?

1. Sustainability and Environmental Economics (10 hours)

• Efficiency, equity and market distortions
• Sustainability: concepts and definitions
• Environment and economic background: common resources and economic implications
• Economics of pollution: implications for business management

  2. Economics of Environmental Policy (10 hours)

• Behavioural Economics and Sustainability
• Eco-innovation and business behaviours
• Environmental policies: principles, aims, mechanisms, and comparative analysis
  
• Food waste policies and consumer behaviour

  B. Sustainability management tools

  How businesses can deal with sustainability strategies and management ?

  3. Eco-Management tools and approaches (10 hours)

• Experimental economics
• Life cycle thinking for sustainable food systems: an application to energy and food waste
• Social network and innovation
• Sustainability: Review Work

Testi/Bibliografia

The following texts offer a general introduction to the course topics:

• R.K. Turner, D.W. Pearce, I. Bateman, Environmental Economics, Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1994
• B.C. Field, M.K. Field, Environmental Economics: An Introduction, McGraw-Hill, 2010 (5th edition)
• T. Tietenberg, Environmental Economics and Policy, Pearson Addison-Wesley, 2007
• C.F. Camerer, G. Loewenstein, M. Rabin, Advances in Behavioral Economics, Princeton University Press, 2003
• J.H. Kagel, A.E. Roth (eds.), Handbook of Experimental Economics, Princeton University Press, 1997

Additional references (texts, scientific articles, webliography) are suggested for each discussed subject and will be proposed during the activities. Slides available at https://iol.unibo.it/

Metodi didattici

Front loaded and active learning methodologies; group and individual exercises; seminars.

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

There is a joint exam for the two modules of the Integrated Course in Food Chain Management and Sustainability therefore it will take place at the end of the classes of both modules.

Knowledge and skills achieved with the two Units are evaluated together on the basis of the following modalities:

a. regular class attendance: written exam: 5 arguments, one hour;

b. not regular class attendance: oral exam (about one hour) on the course study programme.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Beamer and sildes

Orario di ricevimento

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