Economics of Environmental Regulation and Climate Change

Catalog description

(cross-leveled with ECONOM 7318 ). This is an upper-level field course in environmental economics for students with a background in economic theory. It is designed to give students an overview of how economic principles can be applied to design and evaluate environmental regulation. Topic areas and applications include: Market failure (e.g., climate change) and its remedies, evaluation of environmental regulation, measurement of benefits and costs of environmental conditions and regulation, and the frontiers of environmental economics - climate change, environmental justice, IRA, etc. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: ECONOM 3251 or ECONOM 4351