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

The course is aimed to give students the basic knowledge and analytical skills on the energy sector and Energy Policy, namely the european scenario. Methodologies used at micro and macro level for energy analysis are also presented and worked by students.

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 19011:2012, in order to accomplish with environmental targets and sustainability. Furthermore,  interpretation of EMAS-EcoMangement and Audit Scheme, the European Regulation (EC) No 1221/2009 of 25 November  will be performed.

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.

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.

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.

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

The knowledge acquired is intended to give students the skills necessary to analyze, discuss and work in the future matters arising from the CO2 market and clean development mechanisms.

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 being given an insight into the theoretical origins of emissions markets, as well as an overview of the various existing pollution markets, at regional and national levels, and respective operating mechanisms, it is necessary to enable students to evaluate the performance of those markets, according to the objectives for which they were created. The study of the project mechanisms, in particular the Clean Development Mechanism and the grant of allowances and business associated with them, should equip students with the necessary knowledge to take the right decisions in cases that they may face in the future in the course of their professional activity.

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 organizational practices. In particular, the course will seek to:
•    Present the main instruments associated to corporate social responsibility;
•    Present the main models of sustainability reporting;
•    Study, in theoretically framed manner, the motivations for, and implications of, corporate engagement in these practices.

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.

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.