K07 Environmental and food economics

The workshop is intended to provide students with an understanding of the UN-led development agenda adopted in Paris, an overview of the SDGs and to equip them with the managerial tools to develop and understand sustainable development projects.

The classes will focus on the project management approach to sustainable development, analyzing the different phases of sustainable development projects: Identification, formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.


Methodology:
The course will provide an overview of the theory as well as practical sessions allowing students to have a hands on involvement in the workshop

Objectives:
The course’s objective is to expose students to result based management and to allow students to acquire an understanding of key practical tools in project management and the ability to apply them to sustainable development.


Learning outcomes:
By the end of this module, students should be able to:
- understand the workings of the Paris Agreement, Agenda 2030 and the SDGs
- apply the relevant management tools to all the phases of a sustainable development projects

Methodology: 
Attendance is mandatory, students are required to attend 70% of classes, active participation is essential in order to pass the course. A final group assignment is mandatory and will be presented in class.

Final assessment:
The final grade will be based on class participation (35%), attendance (15%) and final assignment(50%)

The aim of the first part of this course is to give students the preliminary elements of probability and statistical inference, in particular linear models. Then the second part provides students with the basic principles of econometric analysis. All the theoretical aspects of the econometric modelling will be treated jointly with interesting and modern empirical applications in order to motivate students and try to respond to real-world questions with specific numerical answers.