AEM 2500

Environmental and Resource Economics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 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 REF-FA25/Corequisites REF-FA25 ECON 1110. Corequisites: None.

Forbidden Overlaps REF-FA25 AEM 1500, AEM 2500, ENVS 1500, ENVS 2500

Enrollment Information REF-F25 Enrollment preference given to: Dyson students and E&S majors.

Distribution Requirements (SBA-AG), (OCE-IL)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 terms offered (None)

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