Dec 12, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

EC 345 - Environmental and Natural Resource Economics


Offered Fall: No Offered Winter: No Offered Summer: Odd Numbered Years Offered Other: Yes
4 Credits
Hours (Lecture - Discussion - Lab): 4-0-0
Prerequisites: EC 101  or EC 201  or instructor permission.

This course allows students to apply tools of economic analysis to the study of current environmental and natural resource issues. Property rights, social welfare maximization and cost-benefit analysis are some of the key concepts used during the course. Government, market, nonprofit, and collective action responses to environmental problems will be covered.