AEM 2500

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AEM 2500
Environmental and Resource Economics

Course information provided by the 2019-2020 Catalog.

This course uses microeconomics to understand the causes and how to devise solutions to environmental and natural resource problems. Subjects include valuation, benefit-cost analysis, policy design and property rights. The course relies on these concepts to explore major current policy issues such as economic incentives in environmental policy, air and water pollution, depletion of renewable and nonrenewable resources, and global warming. Students are evaluated based on problems sets, short essays, 3 quizzes and 3 prelims.


Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 1110.

Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will not receive credit for both AEM 1500 and AEM 2500.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Distribution Category (SBA-AG)

When Offered Fall.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15580 AEM 2500   LEC 001

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: ECON 1110, MATH 1110; or equivalents.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16749 AEM 2500   LEC 002

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  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Prerequisites: ECON 1110, MATH 1110; or equivalents.