Description du cours
Intitulé de l'Unité d'Enseignement
Topics in Economics and Environment
Code de l'Unité d'Enseignement
21EC017
Année académique
2024 - 2025
Cycle
MASTER
Nombre de crédits
5
Nombre heures
60
Quadrimestre
2
Pondération
Site
Montgomery
Langue d'enseignement
Français
Enseignant responsable
ROMAN Philippe
Objectifs et contribution de l'Unité d'Enseignement au programme
The course aims at:
- Developing future managers' understanding of the multidirectional and complex relationships between economic systems and socio-ecological systems;
- Providing students with facts, concepts, theories and analytical tools that help analyse these relationships;
- Increasing awareness and understanding of what these relationships mean in terms of business management in the 21st century.
Prérequis et corequis
Description du contenu
The following topics will be addressed:
- The place and significance of environmental issues in economic theories
- The impacts of economic activity on ecosystems and their theoretical framing
- The constraints that evolving ecosystems place on economic growth
- The diverse ways of conceptualising and measuring sustainability at the global and national levels, as well as at the level of individual firms
- Why and how valuing the environment, in monetary terms or otherwise?
- Environmental policies and their effects on firms
Méthodes pédagogiques
The class is meant to be interactive and participative.
Depending on the evolution of the sanitary situation, online lectures will alternate with classroom teaching and interactive sessions (Q&A, group discussion, quizzes...).
Reading research papers is an integral part of the course as a way of fueling enlightened debates.
Mode d'évaluation
Assessment will take the form of an on site written exam (multiple choice questions + open questions).
Références bibliographiques
All course slides, papers and useful links to be found on Moodle.
Indicative bibliography:
Harris, J.M., Roach, B., (2013), Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. A Contemporary Approach, Routledge.
O'Neill et al., (2018), A good life for all within planetary boundaries, Nature Sustainability, vol. 1, p. 88-95.
Raworth, K., (2018), Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist, Random House.
Ropke et al., (2017), Ecological Economics, Aalborg University (free e-book).
Sommer, A., (2012), Managing Green Business Model Transformations, Springer.