Předmět Ecological Economics and Energy Studies (HEN618b)

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Cíl

Learning Aims• To understand key issues confronting economic analysis of the environment• To give those unfamiliar with ecological economics sufficient knowledge of the subject to allow them to intelligently discuss and debate current controversies• To develop a basic understanding of theories in energy analysis.• To be able to deconstruct common misunderstandings about energy issues.

Osnova

Course Topic Outline1. Introductory Lecture2. The Development of Ecological Economics3. Ecological Economics and Heterodox Thought in Economics4. Connecting Economics with Biology and Ecology5. Complexity and Post Normal Science6. Thermodynamics, Entropy and Economics7. Energy Studies & Systems Perspective.8. Peak-Oil and other resource Peaks9. From Steady-State to Degrowth Economics10. Economic Growth and Co-evolutionary Development11. Happiness and Well-Being12. The Consumer Society13. Student led debate

Literatura

doporučená literaturaGowdy, J.M., Erickson, J.D., 2005. The approach of ecological economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics 29, 207-222. [CLS Chap.10]Ulgiati, S., Odum, H.T., Bastianoni, S. (1994): “Emergy use, environmental loading and sustainability an emergy analysis of Italy”, Ecological Modelling, Vol. 73 (3-4): 215-268Veblen, T.B., 1898. Why economics is not an evolutionary science? The Quarterly Journal of Economics 12, 373-397.Ayres, R.U., Ayres, L.W., Warr, B. (2002): ”Exergy, power and work in the US economy, 1900-1998”, Energy, Vol. 28 (3): 219-272.Røpke, I., 2004. The early history of modern ecological economics. Ecological Economics 50, 293-314.Funtowicz, S O, Ravetz, J.R., 1994. Uncertainty, complexity and post-normal science. Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry 13, 1881–1885.Georgescu-Roegen, N., 1979. Methods in economic science. Journal of Economic Issues XIII. [CLS vol.1 chap.4]Galbraith, J.K., 1979. The revised sequence, in: Galbraith, J.K. (Ed.), The New Industrial State. Penguin, Middlesex, England, pp. 213-220.Campbell, C., Laherrere, J., 1998. The end of cheap oil. Scientific American 78–84.Spash, C.L., 1999. The development of environmental thinking in economics. Environmental Values 8 no.4, 413-435. [CLS vol.1 chap.2]Norgaard, R.B., 1987. Economics as mechanics and the demise of biological diversity. Ecological Modelling 38, 107-121. [CLS vol.1 chap.5]Kerschner, C., Prell, C., Feng, K., Hubacek, K., 2013. Economic vulnerability to Peak Oil. Global Environmental Change 23, 1424–1433. (introduction only)Kerschner, C., 2010. Economic de-growth vs. steady-state economy. Journal of Cleaner Production 18, 544-551.Kallis, G., 2011. In defence of degrowth. Ecol. Econ. 70, 873-880.Georgescu-Roegen, N., 1975. Energy and Economic Myths. Southern Economic Journal 41, 347-381O'Neill, J.F., 2006. Citizenship, well-being and sustainability: Epicurus or Aristotle? Analyse & Kritik 28, 158-172.Funtowicz, S. O., Ravetz, J.R., 1994. The worth of a songbird: Ecological economics as a post-normal science. Ecological Economics 10, 197–207.Lawson, T., 2006. The nature of heterodox economics. Cambridge Journal of Economics 30, 483-505.Easterlin, R.A., 2003. Explaining happiness. PNAS 100, 11176-11183.Holling, C.S., 1986. The resilience of terrestrial ecosystems: local surprise and global change, in: Clark, W.C., Munn, R.E. (Eds.), Sustainable Development of the Biosphere. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 292-317 [CLS vol.4 chap.79].Kapp, K.W., 1978. The Social Costs of Cutthroat Competition, Planned Obsolesence and Sales Promotion, in: Kapp, K.W. (Ed.), The Social Costs of Business Enterprise, 3rd edition, 3rd ed. Spokesman, Nottingham, pp. 224-247.Milbrath, L.W., 1993. Redefining the good life in a sustainable society. Environmental Values 2, 261-269.Kerschner, C., forthcoming. Peak-Oil, in: D’Alisa, G., Demaria, F., Kallis, G. (Eds.), Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Paradigm. Routledge.Murphy, D.J., Hall, C.A.S., 2011. Energy return on investment, peak oil, and the end of economic growth. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1219, 52–72.Lee, F. (2009), A History of Heterodox Economics: Challenging the Mainstream in the Twentieth Century, Routledge, London. Chapter 1.Kapp, K.W., 1978. Towards a New Science of Political Economy, The Social Costs of Business Enterprise, 3rd edition, 3rd ed. Spokesman, Nottingham, pp. 281-301. [CLS vol.1 chap.3]Martinez-Alier, J., 2002. Ecological economics: Taking nature into account, in: Martinez-Alier, J. (Ed.), The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, pp. 16-38. [CLS vol.1 chap.1]Kallis, G., Norgaard, R.B., 2010. Coevolutionary ecological economics. Ecol. Econ. 69, 690-699.Røpke, I., 1999. The dynamics of willingness to consume. Ecological Economics 28, 399-420.Boulding, K.E., 1966. The economics of the coming Spaceship Earth, in: Jarrett, H. (Ed.), Environmental Quality in a Growing Economy: Essays from the Sixth RFF Forum. John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, pp. 3-14.van den Bergh, J., 2011. Environment versus growth: A criticism of "degrowth" and a plea for "a-growth". Ecol. Econ. 70, 881-890.Common, M.S., 1988. 'Poverty and Progress' Revisited, in: Collard, D., Pearce, D., Ulph, D. (Eds.), Economics, Growth and Sustainable Environments. Macmillan, London, pp. 15-39. [CLS Chapter 26]

Požadavky

OverviewThis course is design for students interested in learning about non-orthodox economic approaches to environmental problems and energy issues. The main readings are based(1) around the first two volumes of the four volume collection:Spash, C.L., 2009. Ecological Economics: Critical Concepts in the Environment, 4 Volumes, Routledge Major Work. Routledge, London.(2) on the theories and approaches from energy analysts, in particular Robert Ayres, H.D. Odum and Charles Hall.

Garant

doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.

Vyučující

Mgr. Christian Kerschner, M.Sc., Dr.RNDr. Naděžda Johanisová, Ph.D.Mgr. Eva Fraňková, Ph.D.Bc. Michaela Kašperová