| Course ID: | ECON 4150. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Environmental Economics |
Course
Description: | The economic foundations of global environmental problems, including air and water pollution and the depletion of natural resources, with discussions of alternative (command and market-based) solutions. |
| Oasis Title: | Environmental Economics |
| Prerequisite: | ECON 4010 |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | The class examines the economic foundations of environmental problems, including
air and water pollution and the depletion of natural resouces. The course also
considers how values might be place on such effects, and discusses different
possible alternatives - command-based and market-based - for addressing
environmental issues. |
| Topical Outline: | Resources, Environment, and Economic Development
Environmental Externalities
Resource Allocation
Common Property Resources and Public Goods
Valuing the Environment
Environmental Accounting
Pollution Control
Population and the Environment
Agriculture and Food
Energy
Renewable Resources
World Trade, Development, and the Environment |