Graduate Environmental Policy

Catalog description

This course introduces graduate students to environmental regulation and policy. Students will learn the ideological bases for public intervention into environmental management. The course will examine different environmental policy instruments such as command and control policies and market-based instruments (such as air, water, land-use issues) to examine how policy plays out in the real world. Using cases from the United States and abroad, the course will focus on policy innovation and concepts and issues such as decentralization, public participation, environmental justice, urban sustainability, risk-based and benefit-cost based decision-making, and energy and climate change.