2025

Management of Rural Amenities

Name: Management of Rural Amenities
Code: GES09516M
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area: Management

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

To introduce to the students the multi-funcionality of agriculture and the rural amenities and to analyse the particularities of their supply and demand.
To introduce the valuation methods of no-marketable goods and their applications.
To familiarise the students with the Geographic Information Systems as a tool for capturing, storing, checking, manipulating, analysing and displaying data necessary for an efficient management of rural amenities.

Contents

1.Concept agricultural multi-functionality and rural and agricultural amenities.
2.Categories and characteristics of rural amenities.
3.Mediterranean amenities.
4.Propriety rights and rural amenities.
5.Supply (production) of rural amenities and agricultural rural development policies.
6.Valuation methods of no-marketable goods and analysis of empirical applications.
7.Using the Geographic Information Systems as a tool to understand and manage rural amenities.

Teaching Methods

Theoretical explanation of concepts. Discussion of subjects to help consolidating the theoretical concepts. Solution of real and empirical problems .

Evaluation: Written Essay and written exam