Environmental Economics

Catalog description

In this course, we will understand environmental problems and policy through an economic perspective. We will focus on the interaction between our means of production and our economic “system” and the “environment”. This course introduces the students to key concepts in environmental economics and sustainability, conceptually and practically. The first part of the course builds the toolkit, i.e., the concepts from economics and how they apply to “general” environmental problems. The second part is instead organized around applied topics like climate change, biodiversity loss, energy policy, urban policy, discounting, and growth.