1. Roberto Esposti 1 Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche PowerPoint Slides Ancona, February 2011 Course on Environmental Economics and Protected Areas Department of Economics Università Politecnica delle Marche Piazza Martelli, 8 – 60121 Ancona tel. 071-220.71.19 – fax 071-220.71.02 E-Mail: r.esposti@univpmr.esposti@univpm Web: http://grecof2.econ.univpm.it/esposti/wiki/doku.phphttp://grecof2.econ.univpm.it/esposti/wiki/doku.php

2. Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Roberto Esposti2 Course Description 36 hours; 5 credits 1.INTRODUCTION (2 h) 2.GENERAL PART (26 h) 3.MONOGRAPHIC PART (8 h)  Economics of Protected Areas Course Organization

3. Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Roberto Esposti3 GENERAL PART: Introduction to Welfare Economics  Public goods and externalities  The economic value of environmental goods and its components  Methods for measuring the economic value of environmental goods  A case-study: the Exxon Valdez oil spill 1.1. Topics

4. Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Roberto Esposti4 GENERAL PART: GENERAL PART: Environmental Policies 2.2.  The optimal pollution level  The Polluter Pays Principle  Taxes, incentives and rights in environmental policy  Natural resources management and intertemporal or intergenerational choices Topics

5. Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Roberto Esposti5 GENERAL PART: GENERAL PART: Environment and Economic Development (sketched) 3.3.  The concept of sustainable economic development  The relation between environmental quality and economic development (the EKC)  Less-developed and developing countries and the environment Topics

6. Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Facoltà di Economia “G. Fuà” Università Politecnica delle Marche Roberto Esposti6 Monographic Part: Economics of Protected Areas 4.4.  Protected areas in Italy and in Marche region  The national and regional legislation on protected areas  The EU policy for protected areas  Economic development within protected areas: programming and policy instruments Topics

7. Roberto Esposti 7 Lectures, meetings and material  Lectures  Room: Computer Room  Tuesday and Thursday 8.30-10.30; Wednesday: 10.30-12.30  Lectures start in time with a 10 mins break after the first hour  It is a 6-week course expected to end on 31th March  How to meet the teacher?  You may meet the teacher in his office on Wednesday 13.00-15.00  Otherwise, please contact him by email or phone (skype is OK)  Course material  The course is entirely taught through the Faculty elearning platform: http://elearning.econ.univpm.it/ http://elearning.econ.univpm.it/  All lectures are available as PowerPoint slides  PPT files can be find also on teacher’s personal webpage: http://grecof2.econ.univpm.it/esposti/wiki/doku.php http://grecof2.econ.univpm.it/esposti/wiki/doku.php  Hardcopies of the slides are available at CLUA

8. Roberto Esposti 8 Textbooks  General Part  D.Pearce, R.K. Turner. Economia delle risorse naturali e dell’ambiente. Il Mulino, Bologna, 1997.  In English: D.Pearce, R.K. Turner, Economics of natural resources and the environment. Harvester Wheatsheaf, London, 1990.  F. Silvestri. Lezioni di economia dell’ambiente ed ecologica. II Edizione, CLUEB, Bologna, 2005.  I. Musu. Introduzione all’economia dell’ambiente. Il Mulino, Bologna, 2003.  Monographic part  Some texts will be suggested during the course and indicated in the course websites

9. Roberto Esposti 9 Exam  The exam of Microeconomics is a pre-requisite for this course  Only written exam  Open questions + closed-question test on both parts of the course  Exemplary questions will be provided in the e-learning website at the end of any course week