ECON 4337 - Environmental Economics (3 Credit Hours)

Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0
This course will apply the basic principles of microeconomics to analyze a variety of environmental and natural resource policy problems. We will examine the causes of natural resource and environmental problems, the consequences of these problems, and measures for dealing with them. We will examine many real environmental and resource problems, including but not limited to, the depletion of oceanic fisheries, tropical deforestation, acid rain, pollution control, and endangered species.

Prerequisite(s): A minimum grade of “C” in ECON 2106.