Description
325: Environmental Economics
Goal: To analyze the causes of environmental degradation and the role that markets can play in both causing and solving pollution problems.
Content: Examination of pricing incentives versus direct control approaches to regulating water pollution, air pollution, atmospheric change, and acid rain and the disposal of solid and hazardous wastes.
Taught: Spring. Alternate years.
Prerequisite: ECO 104 or 125.
Credit: 3 hours.