ECON 361 - Environmental Economics

Understanding how environmental problems come to be and how best to solve them, with keen attention to the role and nature of markets, human behavior, institutions, and governmental policy. Students learn to see and redefine environmental problems as failures of incentives; investigate economic theory, concepts and tools relevant for environmental policy and understand the political and environmental history and complexity of environmental issues such as water management and air quality control.

Pre-req: ECON 201 - Principles of Economics: Micro
Cross-listed with ECON 361
3 credits