Agricultural Economy
Achilleas Kontogeorgos - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras
The course of Agricultural Economics (1.9c) targets first year students of the Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises. Course’s primary aim is to address the following topics:
Agricultural economics.
Production factors in agricultural.
Farms as rural businesses.
The economics of agricultural production and production functions.
Farms’ accounting.
Calculating expenditures and production cost for agricultural products.
Introduce to the concepts of quality for agricultural products, Packaging, Standardisation, and brand identity for agricultural products, storage and transportation of agricultural products .
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Agricultural Cooperatives
Achilleas Kontogeorgos - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Department of Business Administration of Food and Agricultural Enterprises, University of Patras
The course Cooperative Economy is addressed to the students of the department of Agricultural Products and Food Business Administration. The main aim of the course is to introduce students to the concept of cooperatives and present their characteristics and the differences with the investor owned firms. In this direction presents the cooperatives principles and the economic theories that are applied to cooperatives. Special attention is given to the Greek legislation for agricultural cooperatives. The course also presents the structure of cooperatives in Greece and the alternative organization types available for cooperatives. The course ends with presenting the development potential of the cooperative business model.
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The course aims at a holistic and critical approach to the concept of rural development through teaching basic concepts and methodologies for understanding a socially heterogeneous agricultural society. Frame of reference is the Greece and e.u. countries.
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Upon completion of the course are expected to have knowledge of the theory and you will be familiar with techniques and mathematical models so you can take quick, informed decisions and to effectively manage a wide range of business problems. You will also be able to explore, to quantify and evaluate micro-economic models for analyzing decisions, understanding the relationship of the description of economic reality to what is needed in business
The course can be divided into four main sections: (a) Mathematical Programming (a) Programming project (c) Multicriteria Analysis and (d) Decision making under uncertainty, for each section you will learn the basic theoretical concepts will work on applied problems and in some of these will be familiar with software that facilitates the resolution of related problems.
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Agricultural Education
Alex Koutsouris - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, Agricultural University Of Athens
Education, training and agricultural education: introduction & philosophical considerations; Agricultural education in Europe and Greece; Needs theory & job analysis; Curriculum planning: aims and objectives; Educational psychology: learning theories; Teaching and learning methodology; Technical education principles: skills training; Evaluation of technical (educational) programmes
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Rural Sociology
Haralabos Kasimis - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Rural economy and Development, Agricultural University Of Athens
After the completion of the course, the student will have:
• Obtained knowledge of theoretical and methodological approaches to rural space
• Developed an holistic and interdisciplinary understanding of the social content of rural space and of agriculture as production process
• Obtained a comparative picture of international examples of rural transformation and of ‘new ruralities’
• Exploited theoretical and methodological knowledge for the understanding of the new conditions created in the rural areas and obtained the capacity to contribute to the facing and finding solutions for these problems.
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Relations between society and environment, ecological, social, economic, political and cultural dimension of environmental problems, the philosophy of the prevailing model of development, environmental values, tools of environmental policy, European Community’s environmental policy, strategies of environmental protection, environmental law, sustainability, principles of sustainability , ecotourism, sustainable development.
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Social Demography
Olga Iakovidou - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Demography represents a fundamental approach to the understanding of human society both in urban and rural areas. Nowadays, the population of the developed world is shrinking. Women give birth to fewer children. People are living longer. The number of pensioners is increasing in comparison to employees. The map of migration is changing and immigration countries become countries of emigration and vice versa. Justification and evaluation of these phenomena and the changes brought about in the economic and social level are negotiated during the course Social Demography. In particular it includes: Introduction to Social Demography. Size and structure of the population. Aging. The evolution of the Greek population. Biological renewal. Biological deterioration of the population. Migration.
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Environmental Education
Afroditi Papadaki-Klavdianou - Undergraduate -
(A-)
Agriculture, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
The concept of environmental education, the content, characteristics, principles and purposes of environmental education. Methodology, design, development and evaluation of environmental education programmes. Presentation of the programmes and evaluation of the actions. Environment and society, economy and environment, protection of the environment, developmental and environmental policy, policy and strategy of environmental protection as national and international problem. Multidisciplinary approaches of environmental issues.
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