API-135: Fundamentals of Environmental Economics and Policy

Semester: Spring

Credit: 1.0

Syllabus: Click here for syllabus

Faculty: Robert Stavins

Schedule

Day Time Location
First Day 1/28
Meet Day M/W 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM L140
Review F 1:10 PM - 2:30 PM L230

Description

Provides a survey, from the perspective of economics, of public policy issues associated with environmental protection and natural resources management. Lectures on conceptual and methodological topics are combined with examinations of specific resource and environmental issues, with particular focus on global climate change economics and policy. Prerequisite: Introductory microeconomics.

Also offered by the Economics Department as Ec 1661. Note: Expected to be bracketed in 2013-14.