Environmental Economics

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course uses microeconomics to analyze environmental and natural resource management issues. Topics may include market-based regulations, valuing the environment, air pollution, global warming, biodiversity conservation, fisheries, natural resource scarcity (minerals and oil), and tradeoffs between environmental quality and economic growth. Coverage of the topics will balance textbook applications of environmental economics with analysis of environmental and natural resource policy. Instruction will consist of a mix of lectures and class discussion.