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Event Training Course on: "Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Theoretical foundations and applied issues"

Deadline for Application:  20 August 2012

(The course will be held in English) 

Project Coordinator: Prof. Laura Castellucci, University of Rome Tor Vergata


Themes: 
The course will focus on the following topics: 

  • The interaction between the economy and the natural environment: market failure and government intervention
  • Economic analysis of the optimal use of natural resources following the basic distinction between renewable and non-renewable resources
  • Pollution as an external effect of production and/or consumption: instruments to internalise the related social costs (standards, taxes, emission permits,....)
  • Conflict on natural resources' use: relative and absolute scarcity-limits to growth (example: land, water)
  • Methods to assess the "value" of environmental goods and services for which market prices are incorrect or do not exist
  • Growth sustainability
  • National environmental accounts- National indicators of resource use, environmental quality and sustainability
  • Developed and less developed countries' relation-international treaties.

Course details

Application Form

Letter

Contact information Mrs. Luisa Bertucci Project Officer Forgea International Via XXIX Novembre, 57 09123 Cagliari – Italy (email: forgea@tin.it)
Phone: +39 070 655 385 – mobile +39 338 2938361 – Fax +39 070 672 229
Event type Training
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File link copy 2012Cagliaricourse-info.doc (DOC, 160 Kb)
Source http://www.bibalex.org/cssp/opportunities/opportunities.aspx#1
Subject(s) AGRICULTURE , ANALYSIS AND TESTS , CHARACTERISTICAL PARAMETERS OF WATERS AND SLUDGES , DRINKING WATER , DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , ENERGY , FINANCE-ECONOMY , HEALTH - HYGIENE - PATHOGENIC MICROORGANISM , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INDUSTRY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , INFRASTRUCTURES , MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT , PREVENTION AND NUISANCES POLLUTION , RIGHT , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES , SLUDGES , TOOL TERMS , TOURISM - SPORT - HOBBIES , WATER DEMAND , WATER QUALITY
Geographical coverage Italy,
Address Cagliari
Organizer University of Rome Tor Vergata
Target audience International
Period [08/10/2012 - 12/10/2012]
Status Confirmed
Working language(s) ENGLISH
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