A002549 - METHODS AND MODELS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

insegnamento
Tipo Insegnamento:
Opzionale
Durata (ore):
60
CFU:
9
SSD:
METODI MATEMATICI DELL'ECONOMIA E DELLE SCIENZE ATTUARIALI E FINANZIARIE
Sede:
BRESCIA
Url:
ECONOMIA SOCIALE E IMPRESE COOPERATIVE/comune Anno: 1
Anno:
2024
Course Catalogue:
https://permalink.unibs.it/suacds/afcc/2024?corso=...

Dati Generali

Periodo di attività

Primo Quadrimestre (01/10/2024 - 22/01/2025)

Syllabus

Obiettivi Formativi

General tasks
Students will learn a disciplined, structured approach to rational decision-making without and with uncertainty
Specific tasks
- Knowledge and understanding
After the course, students will be able to
--- account for fundamental aspects of Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty (DMUU)
--- apply basic principles of MCDA and DMUU in different cases
--- describe the multi-dimensional and uncertain nature of environmental issues
- Applying knowledge and understanding
Students, after this course, will learn a disciplined, structured approach to rational decision-making where environmental projects are judged according to appropriate sustainability criteria
- Making judgements
After the course, students will learn to assess criteria on a qualitative and/or quantitative basis and to perform a comparative evaluation of potential competing projects
- Communication skills
By the end of the module, students should be able to understand and explain the basic concepts of multi-criteria optimization, to formulate real-world problems from management and environmental economics as multi-criteria optimization problems, to discuss different solution concepts, their advantages and their limitations in practice, to apply and justify several solution methods for multi-criteria optimization problems and discuss their drawbacks and their advantages
- Learning skills
The contents of the course are provided through various teaching methods. They are aimed not only at developing the ability of understanding and applying knowledge, with independent judgment and adequate communication skills, but also at increasing the knowledge on contents similar to those of teaching

Prerequisiti

There are no pre, post, and co-requisites to the study of Methods and Models for Environmental Sustainability

Metodi didattici

The weekly lectures of the course are grounded in formal economic analysis and are intended to guide students through the reading of materials and provide a conceptual framework for a subsequent exploration of applications and examples
During the lectures, use of formal problem sets, debates, and break-out group exercises will be made to help develop analytical skills and critical thinking
Part of the course will be developed with dedicated software

Verifica Apprendimento

Attending students (frequency of at least 75% of lectures): the grade is based on homework assignments (10%), a project (40%), and a written examination (50%)
Non-attending students: the grade is fully based on an oral examination with theory and exercises
The final mark ranges from 0 to 30 points. If the final mark ranges from 18 (D) points to 30 points (A), then those points are divided by 30 to be expressed in thirtieths. A final mark of less than 18 points corresponds to a Fail grade (F). An excellent preparation may grant a final mark of 30 points ‘cum laude’ (A+)

Testi

Reference books
• Ishizaka, A. and Nemery, P., 2013. Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis: Methods and Software. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-1-119-97407-9
• Powell, S. G. and Baker, K. R., 2017. Business Analytics: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets, 5th ed. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-1-119-58681-4
Other useful references
• Sueyoshi, T. and Goto, M., 2018. Environmental Assessment on Energy and Sustainability by Data Envelopment Analysis. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-1-118-97934-1
• Vincke, P., 1992. Multicriteria Decision-Aid. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN: 978-0-471-93184-3
• Belton, V. and Stewart, T. J., 2002. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: An Integrated Approach. Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4613-5582-3
• Greco, S., Ehrgott, M. and Figueira, J. R. (Eds.), 2016. Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis: State of the Art Surveys. Springer. ISBN: 978-1-4939-7985-1
Other didactic material on the webpage of the course
• slides
• exercises

Contenuti

The course includes main notions and stages of decision making, unit and multi-criteria models, both under certainty and under uncertainty, and their use in applied problems
The methodology will be applied to environmental issues, such as environmental regulation, water utility management, renewable energy management, and sustainable finance
In particular, the focus will be on
• Introduction to Decision Problems
• Introduction to Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis
• Multi-Attribute Utility Theory
• Analytic Hierarchy Process
• Analytic Network Process
• Data Envelopment Analysis
• Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Introductory Topics
• Decision-Making Under Uncertainty: Monte Carlo Simulation
The applied topics will cover the study of
• Environmental Regulation
• Water Utility Management
• Renewable Energy Management
• Sustainable Finance

Lingua Insegnamento

English

Altre informazioni

Computer usage: some homework assignments can be efficiently solved with a computer
E-mail and webpage: homework assignments, design problems, solutions, review sessions, and exam prospectuses will be emailed and/or posted on the course webpage

Corsi

Corsi

ECONOMIA SOCIALE E IMPRESE COOPERATIVE 
Laurea Magistrale
2 anni
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