AEM 2500 - Environmental and Resource Economics

(crosslisted) ENVS 2500
(SBA-AG) (CU-SBY)

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: AEM 1500, AEM 2500, ENVS 1500, ENVS 2500.
Prerequisite: ECON 1110. Enrollment preference given to: Dyson students and E&S majors.

A. Ortiz Bobea.

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.