- Docente: Marco Casari
- Crediti formativi: 8
- SSD: SECS-P/02
- Lingua di insegnamento: Inglese
- Modalità didattica: Convenzionale - Lezioni in presenza
- Campus: Forli
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Corso:
Laurea Magistrale in
Scienze internazionali e diplomatiche (cod. 9247)
Valido anche per Laurea Magistrale in International politics and economics (cod. 5702)
Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire
Humans have become a force of nature reshaping environmental processes on a planetary scale. This course identifies and describes some ecological issues that poses a challenge for sustainability. It studies their interconnection with economic and political processes. The program builds around three topics: local and global commons, biodiversity, and climate change. The course objective is to provide the tools to understand some ecological challenges at the global level regarding the economy and politics of this generation. Other relevant environmental issues are excluded from the course, such as energy topics, methods for cost-benefit assessments, pollution from toxic chemicals.
Contenuti
Lectures will be organized around the following topics:
• The Anthropocene
• The science of climate change
• Social and economic impacts of climate change
• Mitigation as a social dilemma
• Economic models of climate change
• Mitigation as risk management
• Inequality in climate responsibilities and impacts
• Mitigation between the present and the future
• Ecological transition using carbon prices
• Ecological transition as a system transition
• The political economy of climate policies
• Adaptation
• Geoengineering
Testi/Bibliografia
Lectures and readings will be in English. The textbook is William Nordhaus (2013) The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World, Yale University Press
Other readings will be made available on Virtuale: some are required while others only recommended. The site will be updated continuously and it is recommended to check weekly.
Metodi didattici
Lectures with slides presentation
In-class activities
Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento
This is an intermediate-level economics class. The class will require a considerable effort, especially if you aim at a good grade. The assessment will be about your level of understanding and your ability to work with the concepts. Memory is a pre-requisite to a successful exam, but the ability to repeat concepts will not be the crucial element.
Midterm exam. The midterm is written and will comprise 4-6 questions about topics/lectures 1-9. Answers are short essays that focus on defining concepts, illustrating theories, reporting empirical evidence, providing interpretations, solving numerical exercises. The focus will be on the material in the required readings and the slides. The midterm counts for half of your overall grade. There will be only one opportunity to take the midterm exam, on March 29th. The grade earned in the midterm will be valid until the end of the solar year (2022). If you fail the final exam, or reject the overall grade, you will have to re-take the full final exam as if you never took the midterm.
Final exam. If you have taken the midterm, the final exam will be only about the second half of the program (topics/lectures 11-29) and will count for half of your overall grade. The full final exam is written and will comprise 8-12 questions. Again, answers are short essays that focus on defining concepts, illustrating theories, reporting empirical evidence, providing interpretations, solving numerical exercises. The focus will be on the material in the required readings and the slides.
Strumenti a supporto della didattica
Slide presentations
Frontal lectures
Orario di ricevimento
Consulta il sito web di Marco Casari
SDGs
L'insegnamento contribuisce al perseguimento degli Obiettivi di Sviluppo Sostenibile dell'Agenda 2030 dell'ONU.