Environmental economics and policy

Acquisition of the basic tools of economic analysis applied to protected areas and environmental protection.

Acquiring knowledge about the fundamentals of economic policy instruments applied to environmental protection.

Part I. Ecofunción and environmental services of natural protected areas.
Part II. Economic valuation criteria applied to environmental assets protected natural areas.
Part III. Economic instruments for environmental conservation.

Bibliografía Básica
-Common, M. y Stagl, S. 2008. Introducción a la economía ecológica. Barcelona: Reverté.
-Labandeira, X. et al. 2006. Economia Ambiental. Madrid: Pearson.
-Ministerio de Medio Rural y Marino (2011): Revista de estudios agrosociales y pesqueros. Nº 228, vol 1.

Complementaria:
-Aguilera, F. (ed.) 1995. Economía de los recursos naturales: un enfoque institucional. Textos de S.V. Ciriacy-Wantrup y K.W. Kapp. Madrid: Fundación Argentaria.
-Federico Aguilera y Vicent Alcántara, comp. (1994). De la ECONOMÍA ambiental a la economía ecológica. ICARIA: FUHEM, Barcelona, 408p.
-Azqueta, D. y Ferreiro, A. (eds.), 1994. Análisis económico y gestión de recursos naturales. Madrid: Alianza.
-Baumol, W. y Oates, W. 1982. La teoría de la política económica del medio ambiente. Barcelona: Antoni Bosch.
-Bermejo, R. 1994. Manual para una economía ecológica. Madrid: Los libros de la catarata.
-Constanza ,R. et al. (2014) “Changes in the global value of ecosystem services” in Global Environmental Change, 26, 152-158
-Daly, H. E. (1990). Toward some operational principles of sustainable development. Ecological economics, 2(1), 1-6.
-De Groot, R.S. et al (2010): Challenges in integrating the concept of ecosystem services and values in landscape planning, management and decision making. In Ecological Complexity, 7, 260-272.
-Hardin, Garrett. "The tragedy of the commons." science 162.3859 (1968): 1243-1248.
-Martinez de Anguita (2004): Economía Ambiental y ordenación del territorio" Ecosistemas, nº 1 vol. 13
-Martínez-Alier, J., Pascual, U., Vivien, F. D., & Zaccai, E. (2010). Sustainable de-growth: Mapping the context, criticisms and future prospects of an emergent paradigm. Ecological economics, 69(9), 1741-1747.
-Naredo, J.M. Sostenibilidad, diversidad y movilidad horizontal en los modelos de uso del territorio. En http://habitat.aq.upm.es/cs/p2/a006.html
-Naredo, J.M. (1989): La economía en evolución. Siglo XXI editores.
-Passet R. (1979) L’Economique et le vivant
-Pearce, D. W. y Turner, R. K. 1995. Economía de los recursos naturales y del medio ambiente. Madrid: Colegio de Economistas de Madrid.
-Prada Blanco, A. (dir.) (2001): Valoración económica del patrimonio natural. Instituto de Estudios Económicos. Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza

Ability to analyze from an economic perspective the roles of
protected natural areas.
Knowledge of the tools for economic analysis of natural resources.
Knowledge of the economic policies applied to the management of protected natural areas.

Lectures
The teacher through an interactive methodology lecture or explain the basic content of the material
The student will actively participate with questions or opinions.
practical classes
The teacher will propose a text on which to work a particular topic or problem sets.
The student, after reading the text, participate in classroom discussion on this text or perform the exercises.
Practical work
The teacher will propose a series of topics and provide the basic literature and the background needed to carry out the work.
The student will perform one or several work on a subject of your choice from those proposed for which will have to carry out a literature search and a memory.
In our Virtual Classroom students will have the necessary equipment to monitor classes and for the preparation of their autonomous work.

Attendance and participation in class (20%), consist of participation in classroom discussions, preparation of selected texts and solving the proposed exercises.
Making a portfolio that meets the learning evidence that will be asking throughout the course (50%).
Development of practical work (20%), consisting of a literature review of some of the contents of the course or specific environmental policy analysis. An evaluation of the structure, writing, use of appropriate vocabulary, documentation and selected bibliography, analysis and presentation.
Presentation of class work (10%), will assess the capacity for synthesis, and clarity in speech and in the transmission of ideas.

28 hours of work in the classroom.

47 hours of independent work outside the classroom.

La realización fraudulenta de las pruebas de evaluación será motivo de suspenso en la convocatoria correspondiente.

The Galician version of this teaching program is official and shall prevail in case of differences.