Environmental and Resource Economics
Details
| Department: | Economics |
| Number: | ECN 410 |
| Title: | Environmental and Resource Economics |
| Web page: | Available here |
Description
Economic theory of pollution control; pollution control
instruments including taxes, permits, direct regulation, and negotiation;
environmental quality and international trade; the economics of global climate change;
pollution control policy in practice; optimal use of exhaustible and renewable
resources including fuels, minerals, fisheries, forests and water; resource scarcity
and economic growth; valuation of non-marketed environmental amenities. Prereq: ECN 301 or 311.