Economics of Environmental Policies and Climate Change

Catalog description

(cross-leveled with ECONOM 4318 ). This course provides an introduction to the field of environmental economics. It is designed to give students an overview of how economic principles can be applied to design and evaluate environmental policies. Topic areas and applications include: Market failure (e.g., climate change) and its remedies, evaluation of environmental policies, measurement of benefits and costs of environmental conditions and policies, and the frontiers of environmental economics- climate change, environmental justice, IRA, etc. Credit Hour s : 3 Prerequisites: ECONOM 3251 or ECONOM 4351