ENVS 325 - Environmental Economics

Minimum Credit(s) Awarded: 2
Maximum Credit(s) Awarded: 4

Examines the mechanisms societies employ to allocate limited natural resources among unlimited demands. By seeing environmental issues as economic issues, this course identifies the incentives faced by consumers and producers that lead to environmental problems and how alternative incentives might alleviate problems like pollution, global warming, and vanishing rainforests; or to promote sustainable resource use. Cross-listed ECON325

Prerequisite(s): None.