Environmental Economics – Corporate Environmental Performance

Learning Outcomes:

• The Environmental Economics -Corporate Environmental Performance course aims to provide students with the basic principles of economics, environmental economics and corporate environmental performance. The course aims also to familiarize students with the applications that the use of economics and management can offer in solving environmental problems. Upon successful completion of the course the student will have:
• – Understand the importance of the basic concepts of economics,
• – understand the mechanisms of the economy and society,
• – understand how the economy and environmental systems are interconnected.
• – become familiar with the concepts of environmental microeconomics.
• – become familiar with the concepts of macroeconomic environment.
• – understand the ways in which businesses operate.
• – be able to apply environmental business management techniques.
• – be able to analyse environmental information of enterprises.
• – be able to draw up environmental management programmes.
• – obtain competence in economic analysis of environmental management of enterprises.

General Skills:

Search, analysis and synthesis of data and information, using the necessary technologies
– Decision-making
– Autonomous work
– Group work
– Generating new research ideas
– Generating new research ideas
– Respect for the natural environment
– Promotion of free, creative and deductive thinking

Course Content:
1. Introduction to economics 2. Consumer theory analysis 3. Business cost theory analysis 4. Business product theory analysis. 5. Production function analysis. 6. Analysis of the consumption, savings and government expenditure function. 7. Analysis of a two-sector model. 8. Analysis of a three-sector model. 9. Theories of environmental performance of firms. 10. Techniques for applying business environmental performance techniques. 11. Techniques for measuring the environmental performance of business. 12. Techniques for disclosing information on the environmental performance of enterprises. 13. Techniques for business cooperation on environmental management issues.