ECON 465 - Environmental and Natural Resources Economics

Prerequisites, ECON 200, ECON 201, with a minimum grade of C- in each prerequisite. Theories of environmental and natural resource economics will be examined both for allocative efficiency and for impacts on growth. The theory of public choice and the theory of market failure will be studied. Theory will be applied to renewable and nonrenewable resources and to pollution of air, water, and land. Letter grade. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits