Introduction to Environmental Management

Objectives

1. Familiarization with the notions of Ecological Economics and Knowledge of the methods of economic valuation in the context of Environmental Management;

2. Acquisition of knowledge about environmental law: EU principles, the Portuguese constitution and legal instruments.

3. Assimilation major instruments Management of Protected / Classified areas

4. Developing the capacities for Strategic Planning - Stakeholders Participation.

Program

I - Ecological Economics: Notions

1.1. Ecological Economics vs. Environmental Economics

1.2. Methods of Economic Valuation of Environmental Goods and Services

II - Basics of Environmental Law

2.1 - Community Principles

2.2 - The Portuguese Constitution

2.3. Legal Instruments

2.3.1. The Civil Code

2.3.2 . The penal code

2.3.3 . Law on the Environment

2.3.4. Other Instruments for Environmental Law

III - Protected / Classified areas Management Instruments

3.1. Protected Areas: Concepts and Definitions

3.2 Natura 2000 Network

3.3 - Ramsar Sites

3.4. IUCN Classification

3.5 - Planning Schemes ; Management Plans ; Action Plans

IV - Marine Areas

4.1. Framework and Evolution

4.2. Aichi Target and the CBD

4.3. The Management Instruments

V - Strategic Planning

5.1 Notions - General; objectives; Principles and Planning Process

5.2 SWOT – Analysis

VI - Monitoring

6.1. Bookmarks

6.2. Environmental Monitoring Plans

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures with media support, writing and reading exercises and group discussions. For the evaluation, the students must complete a group of four assignments (two individual and two in group) with oral presentation and discussion.

Bibliography

Agência Portuguesa do Ambiente, Sistema de Indicadores de Desenvolvimento Sustentável – SIDS Portugal, ed. Ministério do Ambiente, do Ordenamento do Território e Desenvolvimento Regional, 2007.

Partidário, M. R., Pinho, P. Guia de Apoio ao Novo Regime de Avaliação de Impacte Ambiental, ed. Ministério do Ambiente e do Ordenamento do Território, Lisboa, 2000.

Buckingham-Hatfield, S., Evans, B. Environmental Planning and Sustainability, Ed. Wiley, USA, 1996.

Lei nº 11/87, de 7 de Abril, da Assembleia da República que define as bases da política de ambiente;

P. Antunes, R. Santos 1999. Integrated Environmental Management of the Oceans, Ecological Economics, 31, 2, 215- 226. (SCI Impact factor:1.179)

Day J., Dudley N., Hockings M., Holmes G., Laffoley D., Stolton S. & S. Wells, 2012. Guidelines for applying the IUCN

Protected Area Management Categories to Marine Protected Areas. Gland, Switzerland: IUCN. 36pp.

Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) http://www.cbd.int/