ECO 228 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Course Units: 1.0

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics explores how market activity, public policy, and the natural environment are interrelated, and how policies can be designed to achieve environmental goals efficiently. This course emphasizes the economic foundations of environmental decision-making, showing how incentives and institutions shape outcomes for people and nature. In this course we will learn to apply economic tools and concepts to analyze environmental challenges, evaluate policies, and understand tradeoffs in managing natural resources. Prerequisite(s): ECO 101 or permission of instructor. CQ: SOCS ISP: STS, ENS