2EGA02 - ECTS

 

Students will be introduced to the concepts and methodologies of work considered more relevant in Environmental Economics and in the specific domain of Sustainable Development and its indicators.

The themes constituting the program are mainly two key areas in a course of the first semester of a Master whose scope is Economics and Environmental Management. On the one hand, a first block syllabus introducing to the themes of Environmental Economics, ensures the student fundamental preparation in this area. Secondly, the issue of sustainable development is presented with the essential methodological foundations for an understanding of the student in relation to its central importance in the international, national, regional and enterprise level. Thus it seeks to prepare students for any work context and in a more immediate level for the possible further development of materials and demand for case studies,particularly in the context of a potential master's thesis

 

2EGA01 - ECTS This course aims to offer students structured knowledge and analytical tools in the field of Energy Economics and Energy Policy. The course studies the evolution and present state of the World, European and Portuguese energy systems. The UC studies the issues of energy security, the interrelationships between energy and the economy, and the way different players, technological and socioeconomic transformations, and energy and climate policies shape the sustainability of the energy system.

2EGA03 - ECTS

The aim of this course is to equip students with the knowledge and skills required to perform audits of environmental management systems against NP EN ISO 14001:2012 and 2015, in accordance with NP EN ISO 19011, in order to accomplish with environmental targets and sustainability.

2EGA04 - ECTS

The course aims at providing students with the understanding of basic conceptual tools of marketing and also of its specificity when related to environmental and sustainability issues. Students are expected to develop analysis and decision-making skills on key environmental marketing variables in an integrated organizational management process.

2EGA06 - ECTS

We want to furnish students a contact with the principle concepts related to Environmental Law. We wish them to obtain the principal language and skills related to environmental law.

2EGA07 - ECTS

With this discipline the students can acquire the economic instruments to understand regulation in general and in the environmental specific case and evaluate the regulation policies.

2EGA10 - ECTS

The course is aimed to give students knowledge and skills both on energy markets analysis and dynamics  and on regulation. The focus will be the european market.

2EGA12 - ECTS

Together with growing concerns about climate changes, environmental policy instruments capable of combating them became essential. Putting a “price” on carbon, namely through the imposition of taxes and the market of pollution permits, gained new importance in the economic field.

The carbon market, especially in Europe, has become one of the most discussed topics in recent years, target of criticism and successive adjustments, focus of research and publications.

After giving an overview of the antecedents of emissions markets and other political instruments with effects in the same direction, an overview is drawn of several existing pollution markets, their modalities and characteristics, focusing on EU ETS.

Students should be able to evaluate the performance of those markets, according to the objectives for which they were created, and respective operating mechanisms. Through the acquired knowledge, it is intended to give students the necessary skills to analyze, discuss and work in the future with issues related with the European CO₂ market or complementary mechanisms at an international level or in a particular country

2EGA05 - ECTS

This course aims to provide students with knowledge on the engagement in corporate social responsibility and the reporting thereof by contemporary organizations. It also aims to promote critical reflection on these practices as ever-evolving social and organizational practices. In particular, the course will seek to:
•    Present the main concepts and instruments associated to social responsibility;
•    Present the main models of social responsibility reporting;
•    Study, in theoretically framed manner, the motivations for, and implications of, engagement in these practices.

2EGA11 - ECTS Preparation and delivery of dissertation or internship report.

2EGA08 - ECTS

The course aims at developing scientific research skills and techniques, namely the ones related to data analysis. Throughout the course, students must be able to identify a research theme and elaborate a rigorous research proposal about that theme.

2EGA09 - ECTS

A direct contact with specialists, corporate and administrative executives along a regular conferences and debates will allow students to develop their analytical capacity and to apply their skills on the debates.