The Department of Economics, Finance, and Environmental Management,
was created at the AGH Faculty of Management, as a result of the integration in 2006 of two units previously functioning separately: the Department of Economics and Natural Resource Economics and the Department of Financial Management.
The Department of Economics, Finance, and Environmental Management continues a tradition of over ninety years of teaching economics courses, initiated in 1922 by the Chair of Economics at the former Academy of Mining
in Krakow, Poland. This activity has been continued at the University of Mining and Metallurgy (AGH) by the following units as:
1952-1968 – Department of Political Economy,
1968-1980 – Departments of Economics functioning within the Institute
of Social Sciences,
1980-1992 – Institute of Economic Sciences,
1992-2006 – Department of Economics and Natural Resource Economics,
2006- –Department of Economics, Finance, and Environmental Management.
The activity of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Environmental Management is part of the research and teaching profile of the AGH University of Science and Technology in Krakow, Poland. During the whole period of the functioning of our Department, the research interests of the faculty staff have been concentrated on the problem of factors in and limits on economic growth and development, particularly focused on the economic, financial and environmental aspects which were the result of the integrity of a mission and future goals determined for the AGH University as well as for the Department.
Since its beginning the Faculty of Management (formerly the Faculty of Organization and Industrial Management) several members of our Department were elected for the highest functions at Faculty level. Three of them served as dean and seven as deputy dean.
The faculty staff of the Department of Economics, Finance, and Environmental Management are authors of many books and scientific papers published by well known publishers and journals in Poland and the following countries: Germany, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Finland, Austria and Republic of South Africa. They are also often organizers or co-organizers of domestic and international conferences and of four global conferences.
Some members of our Department have been elected for the highest functions in international professional associations in the areas of economic sciences, finance and environmental management which propitiously corresponds with the formal name of the Department.
