ECON 3330 - Economics of the Environment
Course Description
This course will cover a basic introduction to environmental and natural resource issues of both global and local scale. Our analysis will investigate basic causes and consequences of environmental problems including interrelated physical and social science dimensions. We will focus on both exhaustible and renewable natural resources, including problems in climate change, water, energy, and biotechnologies. We will use various text/academic readings, in-class applications, and research papers to illustrate these environmental problems.
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This course will cover a basic introduction to environmental and natural resource issues of both global and local scale. Our analysis will investigate basic causes and consequences of environmental problems including interrelated physical and social science dimensions. We will focus on both exhaustible and renewable natural resources, including problems in climate change, water, energy, and biotechnologies. We will use various text/academic readings, in-class applications, and research papers to illustrate these environmental problems.
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