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Catalog 2019-2020 
    
Catalog 2019-2020 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

ENVS 580 - Environmental and Resource Economics


Course explores concepts of negative externalities as drivers of environmental problems and conflict in common pool resources. Students examine fundamental microeconomic principles including benefit-cost analysis, marginal net benefits, rational choice theory, inter-temporal distribution of net benefits, and institutional analysis framework via a case study approach.

Typically Offered: Spring term only

Units: 3