B5636 - ECONOMIA, SOSTENIBILITÀ E SPORT

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Exercise and Sport Sciences (cod. 8766)

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

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Zagonari