Training Course on: "Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Theoretical foundations and applied issues"
Deadline for Application: 20 August 2012
Project Coordinator: Prof. Laura Castellucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata
Themes:
The course will focus on the following topics:
- The interaction between the economy and the natural environment: market failure and government intervention
- Economic analysis of the optimal use of natural resources following the basic distinction between renewable and non-renewable resources
- Pollution as an external effect of production and/or consumption: instruments to internalise the related social costs (standards, taxes, emission permits,....)
- Conflict on natural resources' use: relative and absolute scarcity-limits to growth (example: land, water)
- Methods to assess the "value" of environmental goods and services for which market prices are incorrect or do not exist
- Growth sustainability
- National environmental accounts- National indicators of resource use, environmental quality and sustainability
- Developed and less developed countries' relation-international treaties.
Contact information |
Mrs. Luisa Bertucci Project Officer Forgea International Via XXIX Novembre, 57 09123 Cagliari – Italy
(email: forgea@tin.it) Phone: +39 070 655 385 – mobile +39 338 2938361 – Fax +39 070 672 229 |
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Event type | Training |
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Source | http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/opportunities/opportunities.aspx#1 |
Subject(s) | AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY |
Geographical coverage | Italy, |
Address | Cagliari |
Organizer | University of Rome Tor Vergata |
Target audience | International |
Period | [08/10/2012 - 12/10/2012] |
Status | Confirmed |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |