- Docente: Fabio Zagonari
- Credits: 6
- SSD: SECS-P/01
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 6622)
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from Sep 22, 2025 to Dec 11, 2025
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 and between humans and nature. The main sustainability paradigms and environmental policies will be discussed. Students will learn the main concepts of microeconomics, macroeconomics and internatioonal economics, by focusing on issues related to economics, sustainabilitya and sport.
Course contents
The structure of this course can be summarized as follows:
Environmental Ethics
Environmental Sustainability
Economics and sustainability
Environmental policies for the optimal production of pollution
Environmental policies for the optimal use of resources
International agreements on pollution and resources
Sustainability and sport
Readings/Bibliography
Zagonari, F. (2024) Both religious and secular ethics to achieve both happiness and health: panel data results based on a dynamic theoretical model, PLoS ONE
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
Zagonari, F. (2000) Lineamenti di economia: teoria ed esercizi, Hoepli, Milano
Teaching methods
Together with traditional university lectures, students will be involved in exercises on economics and sustainability (microeconomics, macroeconomics, international economics) and on sustainability and sport (each student is expected to present to other students a given scientific paper)
Assessment methods
Written exam, 90 minutes, 3 open questions.
Students with learning disorders and\or temporary or permanent disabilities: please, contact the office responsible (https://site.unibo.it/studenti-con-disabilita-e-dsa/en/for-students) as soon as possible so that they can propose acceptable adjustments. The request for adaptation must be submitted in advance (15 days before the exam date) to the lecturer, who will assess the appropriateness of the adjustments, taking into account the teaching objectives.
Office hours
See the website of Fabio Zagonari