An extension of microeconomic methodologies to problems in managing the environment, identifying the problems to which these tools may be usefully applied, and the insights economics has to offer. Since there are more environmental problems than insights, the course will be analytically rigorous so that these insights may be broadly applied. Calculus will be used.
Examples covered include air and water pollution and renewable resource management.
This course introduces students to a set of core topics in environmental economics and natural resource economics.