ECON 333W - Advanced Environmental Economics

4 credit(s)
Students will apply advanced frameworks to study outcomes when market participants undervalue environmental resources such as clean air and water. Advanced tools will be applied to compare benefits and costs that occur across time and to evaluate policy responses. The advanced tools are particularly useful for assessing climate change, which poses an urgent problem that existingsystems are ill-equipped to address. Students will also conduct a supervised research project on an issue related to environmental economics. Students receiving ECON/ENV 230 credit may not receive ECON/ENV 333W credit. Also listed as ENV 333W
Core Requirement(s): Counts toward core requirement: Sustainability, Writing in the Discipline.
Prerequisite(s): ECON 102 , ECON 103 or ECON 181