AEM 2500

Environmental and Resource Economics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2014-2015 Catalog.

Introduces fundamental economic principles and the "economic approach" to policy issues, and demonstrates how these concepts underpin contemporary environmental and natural resource issues and policy solutions. Subjects include valuation, benefit-cost analysis, policy design, property rights, and ecological economics. Uses these tools 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. Two evening exams and three out of class labs.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 1110.

Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: AEM 1500.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: students in majors that specifically require AEM 2500.

Distribution Category (SBA)

When Offered Spring.

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