ECON-417 Topics in Environmental Economics

This course covers environmental and natural resource economics topics such as common-pool resources, non-market valuation, carbon prices, environmental justice, and decarbonizing electricity generation. Students will learn to examine the existing literature critically. There will be frequent discussions of journal articles and their policy implications. The focus will be on learning how to use economic theory and statistical methods to formulate and test hypotheses.

Maximum Enrollment

20

Credits

1

Prerequisite

ECON-266, ECON-275, and ECON-285

Offered

Fall