ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY

The course aims at providing students with the capability to understand the most important approaches and tools of contemporary environmental policy, in particular with respect to the Italian and European contexts. . Students have also to develop the capability to consider how environmental policy interacts with the most important economic, social and political tendencies.

1) Knowledge and ability to understand the basic concepts of environmental policy, with particular reference to the Italian and European context. Ability to understand how the main environmental policies interact with the social, economic and political aspects that characterize contemporary societies.
2) Knowledge and understanding skills applied to the geographical and territorial dimensions of environmental issues.
3) Autonomy of judgment: the student must develop an adequate capacity to identify and organize in a coherent way the main sources and data sets that allow to describe and understand the main policies and initiatives of environmental policies.
4) Communication skills: the student must be able to synthesize the acquired knowledge in an efficient and coherent way. .

Basics of environmental economics.

- The evolution of environmental policy in the European Union
- Environmental policy in Italy: actors, approaches and tools
- relevant issues in environmental management: water, wastes, polluted sites, air and water pollution, trasnportation and environment, environmental management in urban environments
- Nature conservation and biodiversity
- Climate change and international environmental policy
- Energy and environment
- Evolution of economic systems and the environment

- M. Camuffo, S. Soriani, Politica e gestione dell'ambiente, Bologna, Pàtron 2015
- Lecture notes; presentations available in the Moodle platform

For all students (attendin and not-attending ones) the exam consists of a written test, with open questions on the topics of the course. The test lasts 50 minutes and is aimed at verifying the acquisition by students of the basic concepts of environmental politics, as well as their ability to contextualise these concepts with respect to the goal of representing from the socio-economic perspective the most important contemporary environmental problems. 5 questions require a synthetic answer, aimed at verifying the effectiveness of the student's study. Each answer is worth a maximum of 4 points (out of 30).
A question instead requires the elaboration of a more articulate text, aimed at assessing the student's ability to link together and critically contextualize the main contents acquired in the course. The answer to this question is worth 10 points.

The course is organized with frontal-lectures. In each lesson the final part is destined for discussion with the students, according to modalities consistent with the number of the class.

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This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Circular economy, innovation, work" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development