IESE

EEA576

Environmental Policy

Compulsory/Courses of Limited Choice

Post-graduate Studies

Academic

Environmental Engineering and Management

Vides aizsardzības un siltuma sistēmu katedra

1 daļa; 4.0 credit points; 6.0 ECTS credits

Introduction (4 h)
Environmental philosophy (4 h)
Science and the environment. Green ideology (4 h)
Collective action, power and decision-making (4 h)
Environmental movement (4 h)
Environmental economics. Environmental evaluation. (4 h)
Methods for environmental economic control and regulation (4 h)
International environmental policy (4 h)
Environmental policy in the EU (4 h)
Environmental policy in Latvia (4 h)
Energy efficiency policy (4 h)
Practical assignement (12 h)
Role plays (8 h)

To be able to define and analyse different ethical principles and moral values of various players and their impact on environmental policy processes. - Examination: role play, exam, course work. Assessment criteria: Able to identify basic principles in environmental policy development.
To be able to identify, understand and analyse environmental policy mechanisms and instruments on the national and international levels. - Examination: role play, exam, course work. Assessment criteria: Able to identify basic principles in environmental policy development.
To be able to develop and apply environmental policy instruments and environmental economic instruments. - Examination: exam, course work. Assessment criteria: Able to develop , analyse and use different environmental policy instruments and environmental economics instruments.
To be able to identify political and socio-economic motivating factors in environmental policy development on the global, regional (EU) and national (Latvia) level. - Examination: role play, exam, course work. Assessment criteria: Able to develop and argue the course of any given environmental policy.

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The environmental policy course is an analysis of how environmental awareness has evolved historically based on the ethical principles and moral values present in society, as well as on the development of science, structure of society, environmental psychology, the structure of economic and political systems and their impact on the development of environmental policy. The course has a comparative analysis of the development of environmental legislation in Latvia, the EU and elsewhere and looks at methods for evaluating and calculating losses to the environment. The course is conducted through lectures, seminars and role plays.

To acquire knowledge on the basic principles on the development of environmental policy and economics, as well as environmental legislation. To gain practical skills in evaluating and calculating loss to the environment through the application of economic instrument and the requirements set in normative acts.

The practical work in the course contains two parts: 1) role plays are based on exploring the agreement process in situations when environmental issues need to be addressed, but which represent various interests that complicate the possibility of agreement. Each role play is played during one lecture. 2) practical work which is applies the policy instruments. Results are presented by students during seminars that are part of lectures.

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2.M.R.Greenberg. Environmental Policy Analysis and Practice, Rutgers University Press, 2008, 320 lpp.
3.S.Cohen. Understanding Environmental Policy, Columbia University Press, 2006, 240 lpp.
4.R.Kerry Turner, David Pearce and Ian Bateman,”Environmental Economics”, 1994;
5.Gareth Porter, Janet Welsh Brown, Pamela S. Chasek “Global Environmental Politics”, Third Edition, 2000;
6.Sharon Beder, “Global Spin, The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism”, 2002;
7.James Connelly, Graham Smith “Politics and the Environment: From the Theory to Practice”, 1999;
8.R.Kerry Turner, David Pearce, Ian Bateman “Environmenatl Economics: An Elementary Introduction”, 1994;
9.“Economics, Ethics, and Environmental Policy, Conteted Choises”, Blackwell Publishing, 2002;
10.“Rinočnije metodi upravļeņija okružajušei sredoj”, Maskava, 2002 (krievu valodā);
11.Andrew Dobson “Green Political Thought”, Third Edition, 2000;
12.Carolyn Merchant “Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World”, 1992.
13.D.Meadows, J.Randers, D. Meadows „Limits to Growth. The 30-year update”, 2004.
14.G.T.Gardner, P.C.Stern “Environmental Problems and Human Behaviour”, 2002.
15.Joy E.Hecht, National Environmental Accounting, 2005
16.Peter Mulder, The Economics of Technology Diffusion and Energy Efficiency, 2005
17.Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques, A Manual, 2002
18.N.Hanley, Jason F. Shorger, B. White, Introduction Environmental Economics, 2001
19.G. Garrod, K.G. Willis, Economic Valuation of the Environment, 1999