2025

Sustainable Regional Development

Name: Sustainable Regional Development
Code: ECN09799D
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Ciências Económicas e Sociais

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The purpose of discipline is that students seize the instruments of interpretation and analysis of the processes of sustainable development at local and regional level. It is also intended to inform students on regional economic modelling based on regional science that can be used to analyze the functioning of regional economies, to estimate the effects of scenarios and policies and thus support decisions for sustainable regional development.

Contents

Models of urban sustainability. Models of the base and spatial interaction models: the base model, spatial interaction model, interaction model with the use of natural resources. Input-Output Models: models of regional input-output models, input-output interregional social accounting matrix of regional input-output models with environmental interactions. General Equilibrium Models: static models of general equilibrium, dynamic models of general equilibrium, general equilibrium models with environmental interactions.

Teaching Methods

The course aims to provide students with the concepts and methods of modeling of regional economies. In this context it is essential, in addition to the exposure of theoretical concepts and teaching of quantitative methods, to promote the ability to develop models applicable to regions that do not have such tools. Students must complete the subjects taught through exercises done outside the class. Students should have the notion that the course consist of a series of logical levels. May be scheduled meetings with the students whenever they want. They provided the following evaluation periods: i) work done during the course (40%), ii) an exercise which presents directly the actual data and which asks the student to give effect analysis tools provided in .