Programa

Ecological Economics

Licenciatura Bolonha em Economia

Licenciatura Bolonha em Economics

Licenciatura Bolonha em Gestão

Licenciatura Bolonha em Management

Licenciatura Bolonha em Matemática Aplicada à Economia e à Gestão

Programa

Chapter 1: What is Ecological Economics 1.1. Humanity's Current Dilemma ▫ The Global Ecosystem and the Economic Subsystem ▫ From Localized Limits to Global Limits: Planetary Boundaries ▫ The Fragmentation of Economics and the Natural Sciences 1.2. What is Ecological Economics? ▫ Historical origins and intellectual foundations of ecological economics ▫ Comparison between ecological economics and mainstream economics ▫ Reintegration of Ecology and Economics Chapter 2: Biophysical Foundations 2.1 Sustainable Scale, Fair Distribution, and Efficient Allocation ▫ From Empty-World Economics to Full-World Economics ▫ Reasons the Turning Point Has Not Been Noticed ▫ Complementarity vs. Substitutability ▫ Policy Implications of and responses to the Historical Turning Point 2.2 Ecosystems, Biodiversity, and Ecological Services ▫ Biodiversity and Ecosystems ▫ Ecosystems and Ecological Services ▫ Defining and Predicting Sustainability in Ecological Terms ▫ Ecosystems as Sustainable Systems 2.3 Substitutability vs. Complementarity of Natural, Human, and Manufactured Capital ▫ Growth vs. Development ▫ More on Complementarity vs. Substitutability ▫ More on Natural Capital ▫ Sustainability and Maintaining Natural Capital Chapter 3: Human Needs and Wellbeing 3.1 Measuring Quality of Life, Well-being, and Welfare ▫ Quality of Life, Well-being, and Welfare ▫ Gross Domestic Product and Its Political Importance ▫ GDP: Concepts and Measurement ▫ From GDP to Hicksian Income and Sustainable Development ▫ From GDP to a Measure of Economic Welfare ▫ The Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare and the Genuine Progress Indicator ▫ Toward a Measure of Total Human Welfare ▫ Alternative Models of Wealth and Utility ▫ Sustainable and Desirable “Doughnut” 3.2 Valuation, Choice, and Uncertainty ▫ Fixed Tastes and Preferences and Consumer Sovereignty ▫ Valuation of Ecosystems and Preferences ▫ Uncertainty, Science, and Environmental Policy ▫ Technological Optimism vs. Prudent Skepticism ▫ Social Traps, Escaping Social Traps Chapter 4: Institutions, Instruments, and Policies 4.1. Brief History of Environmental Institutions and Instruments 4.2. The Need to Develop a Shared Vision of a Sustainable Society ▫ Envisioning ▫ Scenario planning ▫ Overcoming roadblock 4.3. Policy Instruments ▫ Regulatory Systems ▫ Incentive-Based Systems ▫ Policies to Achieve Sustainability ▫ Examples of Policies, Instruments, and Institutions Chapter 5: Introduction to Degrowth 5.1. Revisiting the framework of limits to growth and ecological tipping points 5.2. Defining Degrowth, historical roots and evolution of the Degrowth movement 5.3. Degrowth as part of post-growth movements (in opposition to green growth)