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Environmental Economy
FAST-TG08Acad. year: 2023/2024
The subject deals with the economic aspects of the creation and protection of the environment. Students are acquainted with the basic causes of market failure in the area of environmental goods and corresponding solution methods. Emphasis is laid on legal norms, institutional support and tools of positive and negative stimulation (mainly in the context of the Czech Republic). Attention is also paid to the corresponding strategies and the concept of permanently sustainable development and decisive tools and measures which stimulate its enforcement (EIA method, EMS, environmental auditing, ecolabelling etc.).
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Understanding of various interactions between the economy and the environment, familiarisation with the relevant strategies and specific tools which are aimed at the reduction of negative externalities generated by economic development.
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VITURKA, Milan: Základy environmentální ekonomie. Brno: ESF MU, 1997. ISBN 80-210-1514-4. (CS)
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