Course Details

Environmental Economy

Academic Year 2025/26

NVA072 course is part of 1 study plan

​ NPC-ARS / ARP Winter Semester 2nd year

Course Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Hromádka, Ph.D.

Institute

Institute of Structural Economics and Management

Language of instruction

Czech

Credits

2 credits

Semester

winter

Forms and criteria of assessment

examination

Offered to foreign students

Not to offer

Course on BUT site

https://www.vut.cz/en/students/courses/detail/296013

Lecture

13 weeks, 2 hours/week, elective

Syllabus

  • 1. Basic terms, global environmental problems – atmosphere and climate, water resources, deforestation, extinction of species and other selected problems.
  • 2. State of the environment of the Czech Republic and its developmental trends – air, water, soil, biota.
  • 3. General relationship between the market economy and the environment – the term ‘externalities’, natural resources and their evaluation, macroeconomic and microeconomic optimums of environmental quality.
  • 4. Legal regulations for the protection of the environment in the Czech Republic – basic and general legal norms, particular legal norms (protection of the countryside, air and water).
  • 5. Legal regulations for the protection of the environment in the Czech Republic – specific legal norms (soil protection, handling of waste, other components of the environment), related legal norms, harmonization of the legal regulations of the Czech Republic and the EU.
  • 6. Administrative and economic tools in the protection of the environment – tools of negative and positive stimulation.
  • 7. Ecological management of companies – systems of ecological management, environmental norms, environmental accounting.
  • 8. Strategic approaches towards the solution of environmental problems – reactive and proactive approaches, technology used in the cleaning of waste gases and water, handling of waste, recycling.
  • 9. The concept of permanently sustainable development, and selected tools and measures which support its enforcement – environmental auditing and the EIA method, SEA, ecolabelling, ecological tax reform.
  • 10. Natural science and land-use aspects of the protection of the living environment – land-use systems for the ecological stability of landscapes, linkage to land-use planning.
  • 11. Ecological policy – international events and initiatives, the ecological policy of the Czech Republic.
  • 12. Institutional support of care for the living environment in the Czech Republic – public administration, non-governmental organizations.
  • 13. The ecological policy of the EU – environmental action plans, interaction of economic and ecological policy.