The Economics of Agriculture and the Environment
Objectives
Teach the students the economic analysis of agriculture and its relationships with the environment
General characterization
Code
2166
Credits
3.5
Responsible teacher
Fernando Júlio Viana de Brito Soares
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
English
Prerequisites
Bibliography
Recommended readings - books and articles
CAVAILHÈS, J. et al. (1994) - Change in the French Countryside: Some Analytical Propositions, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 21 (3/4) 429-449
IRWIN, Elena G. et al. (2010) - A Century of Research on Rural Development and Regional Issues, American Journal of Agricultural economics, Vol. 92 (2) 522-533
HILL, B.and INGERSENT,K. (1977) - An Economic Analysis of Agriculture, Heinemann Educational Books, London, (ch. 6), (R)
HILL, B. and RAY, D. (1989) - Economics of Agriculture, Macmillan, London (ch. 13)
RITSON, C. and HARVEY, D. (1997) - The Common Agricultural Policy, Cab International, Oxfordshire (ch. 1, 3 and 16)
SOARES, F. B. (2005) - An Alternative Scheme to Compute the Common Agricultural Policy Direct Payments to Farmers, Working Paper # 9/2005, International Centre for Economic Research, Turin (R)
EUROPEAN UNION - Regulation, 1305/2013, December, 17 (N) EUROPEAN UNION - Regulation 1306/2013, December, 17 (N) EUROPEAN UNION - Regulation 1307/2013, December, 17 (N) EUROPEAN UNION - Regulation 1308/2013, December,17 (N) EUROPEAN UNION - Regulation 1311/2013, December, 2 (N)
COOPER, Joseph (ed) (2005) - Global Agricultural Policy Reform and Trade
Environmental Gains and Losses, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (ch. 2)
SOARES, F. B. and Ronco R. (2005) - The Common Agricultural Policy and The Green House Gas Emissions, Working Paper # 17/2005, International Centre for Economic Research, Turin (R)
DINAR, A. and MENDELSOHN, R. (ed) (2011) – Handbook on Climate Change and Agriculture,
Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK (ch.11 and 12)
SCHNEIDER, Uwe A. and McCARL, Bruce A. (2006) - Appraising Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Mitigation
Potentials: effects of alternative assumptions, Agricultural Economics Vol 35(3), November, 277-287
NOTE : References marked (R) are available in the Readings, and those marked (N) are available in the Net
Teaching method
Lecturing and discussion of the issues covered
Evaluation method
Mandatory final written exam
Final written exam 70%; the remainder 30% will be agreed upon with the students, depending on the enrolment
Subject matter
I. Introduction
II. Agriculture and the Economy
III. Agricultural Policy
IV. The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of the European Union
V. The CAP for 2014 2020
VI. Agriculture and the Environment