ECO X59M ECO 359M Environmental and Natural Resource Economics 3 Hours
3 Lecture Hours 0 Lab Hours
Optimal use of exhaustible and renewable resources, including fuels, minerals, fisheries, forests, and water; resource scarcity and economic growth; valuation of nonmarketed environmental amenities; the economics of 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. Three lecture hours a week for one semester.
Pre/Corequisites: Economics 329 and 420K or 420S with a grade of at least C- in each.
Grading: Student Option
Repeatable for credit: No
Academic Level: Upper Division