2023/2024

The reasoned knowledge of the applicable legislation - regional, national and supranational - in forestry-environmental matters, is an indispensable element for an agronomist and forestry doctor who wishes to adequately interface with the structural and functional complexity of territorial systems and with the multifunctionality required in planning processes. , management and conservation of natural resources. The course, therefore, after an introduction on the fundamental principles, history and sources of forestry-environmental law, intends to address, with a dual regulatory and application approach, the main issues with which operators in the sector must deal in the territory. national and regional. The course is therefore aimed at providing 1) knowledge of the relevant legislation; 2) knowledge of the application measures relating to the aforementioned regulatory framework; 3) useful tools for students to develop autonomous analyzes and judgments, in the face of fundamental regulatory issues in this matter. To do this, the course will be structured on a dialogic basis, with lessons that provide for constant interaction between teacher and students and will aim to stimulate students' learning skills as much as possible.

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I – Basic principles of economics
1. Fundamental concepts of economics
2. Production theory
3. Investment evaluation: Net Present Value (NPV)
4. The supply of products in competitive markets
5. Market demand
6. Closed markets
7. Open markets: international trade

II - Special topics in forestry economics
1. Forestry production activities
2. The Italian forest-wood system
3. International trade in wood products

III – Basic notions of the economics of natural resources and the environment
1. Natural resource economics
2. Environmental economics

IV – Introduction to forestry appraisal
1. The professional practice of forestry appraisal
2. Basic notions of economic appraisal
3. Land register (Catasto terreni)
4. Basics of financial mathematics
5. Forestry appraisal: Estimated metric calculation; Stumpage value; Economic value of the forest.

• Samuelson P.A. and Nordhaus W.D., Economics, XX edition [XXI ed., 2019], McGraw-Hill, 2001 [Site: www.ateneonline.it\samuelson20e].
• Merlo M., Elements of forest-environmental economics and valuation, Pàtron Editore, Bologna, 1991.
• Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (2020). Forests and forestry supply chains. In-depth document of the National Forestry Strategy.
• Presentations and exercises developed by the instructor.

Traditional frontal lessons, exercises, seminars.

In the assigned classrooms.

Mid-term exam and final oral exam with exercises of forestry appraisal.

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