78442 - Environmental appraisal

Learning outcomes

At the end of the teaching, the student has acquired the ability to use the main economic instruments of territorial and environmental assessment of monetary and non-monetary type. In particular, the student is able to: - understand procedures and collaborate on the main cases of analysis of territorial importance, with particular reference to the environmental impact assessment; - conduct a territorial assessment, regarding the effects that a project will have on the agro-componentsThe European Commission, DG XIII, has published a report on the Community’s environmental policy in March 1998.

Course contents

Teaching Unit 1 (3 hours): Work on the evolution of economic thought for the environment. Results: The student knows the main developments of economic thought for environmental protection starting from the classical thought, the thought Marxist theories of John Stuart Mill, and finally at the thought Neoclassical

Teaching Unit 2 (12 hours): The market environment: theory and application

Results: The student knows the market model for the environment. Is able to give the definition of externalities and structure a model of theoretical evaluation. We propose a classification of the models used for the evaluation of externalities such as the materials balance and property rights. The student distinguishes environmental standards and environmental taxes as a means of achieving sustainability point of the market.

Teaching Unit 3 (5 hours): Description and evaluation of natural resources

Results: the student knows the critical factors of the man-economic activity in the exploitation of environmental resources, necessary to enable a production process; also learns the classificatory systems of reserves and resources and the concept of sustainable development for the production process in order to minimize pollution and externalities.

Teaching Unit 4 (10 hours): Evaluation of environmental resources

Results: The student is able to indicate the definition and the differences between good public / private and economic good. He knows the tools and models of economic analysis going from real market value of an asset according to a classical exchange and supply / demand, up to the value of existence.

Teaching Unit 5 (30 hours): Models and analysis tools and case studies

Results: The student knows and applies the main models and analysis tools including: the 'Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA), the Environmental Accounting, Analysis of the consumption / production of energy in a process: the model EROEI, the Travel Cost Method and Evaluation pluriparametrica of ornamental plants, ecological footprints and circular economy.

Readings/Bibliography

Pearce David W., Turner, R. Kerry, (1991), Economia delle risorse naturali e dell'ambiente, Il Mulino, Bologna.

Ragazzoni A. (2022), L'azienda agro-zootecnica del futuro: come valutare la sostenibilità economica ed ambientale, Franco Angeli Editore, Milano.

The teaching material consists of slides presented in class and made available to students on the dedicated website

http://www.unibo.it/docenti/alessandro.ragazzoni

Teaching methods

The course is mainly done through lectures with video projection of power point with the possibility of exercises in the computer lab and seminars by experts in the field

Assessment methods

The course is part of the Integrated Course of ESTIMO TERRITORIALE E CARTOGRAFIA CATASTAL along with the following other teaching: Cartografia catastale con elementi di CAD e GIS.

Therefore, the evaluation of the course takes into account jointly the level of knowledge and skills acquired by the student in relation to the contents of all of the above teachings. The knowledge and skills taught in this course are evaluated in the following ways: oral exam at the end of the course of instruction may be preceded by written tests in progress.

the realization of a project for the renaturalization of a farm is foreseen

Teaching tools

Analysis of computer models support PC, lessons in power point; exercises and case studies on PC

Office hours

See the website of Alessandro Ragazzoni