Università degli Studi di Napoli "Parthenope"

  1. Teaching
  2. BIOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
  3. NATURAL CAPITAL, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING

Stampa

NATURAL CAPITAL, ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTING

Teaching schedule

Academic year: 
2021/2022
Belonging course: 
Course of Master's Degree Programme on BIOLOGY FOR SUSTAINABILITY
Disciplinary sector: 
ECOLOGY (BIO/07)
Language: 
Italian
Credits: 
9
Year of study: 
2
Teachers: 
Dott. FRANZESE Pier Paolo
Cycle: 
First Semester
Hours of front activity: 
72

Language

Italian

Course description

The course aims at providing students with the theory and methodologies for assessing natural capital and ecosystems services in marine and terrestrial ecosystems. The students acquire the main environmental accounting techniques for assessing the ecological and economic value of natural resources.

Prerequisites

Basic notions of ecology.

Syllabus

Notion of natural capital. Natural capital stocks: soil, water, atmosphere, biodiversity. Notion of ecosystem services. Ecosystem services classification. Human pressure factors. Environmental accounting. The UN SEA-EEA framework. The energy accounting method. Ecological and economic assessment of natural resources. Integrating ecological and economic theory. Ecological-economics.

The course deals with the theoretical and applied aspects of natural capital and ecosystems services assessment by means of environmental accounting techniques.

Teaching Methods

Frontal lectures, group discussions, intermediate tests and final exam.

Textbooks

MATTM, 2018. Natural Capital in Italy. Edizioni Ambiente.

Learning assessment

Intermediate test and final oral examination.

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