AEM 2500

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AEM 2500
Environmental and Resource Economics

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

This course uses microeconomics to understand the causes and how to devise solutions to environmental and natural resource problems. Subjects include valuation, benefit-cost analysis, policy design and property rights. The course relies on these concepts to explore major current policy issues such as economic incentives in environmental policy, air and water pollution, depletion of renewable and nonrenewable resources, and global warming. Students are evaluated based on problems sets, short essays, 3 quizzes and 3 prelims.

When Offered Fall.

Permission Note Enrollment preference given to: Dyson students and E&S majors.
Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: ECON 1110.
Forbidden Overlaps Forbidden Overlap: due to an overlap in content, students will receive credit for only one course in the following group: AEM 1500, AEM 2500, ENVS 1500, ENVS 2500.

Distribution Category (SBA-AG)
Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENVS 2500

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8522 AEM 2500   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ortiz Bobea, A

  • Enrollment preference given to: students in Environmental, Energy, and Resource Economics (EERE) Concentration and Environmental Economics.

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENVS 2500

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18470 AEM 2500   LEC 002

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 26 - Dec 9, 2024

    • Ortiz Bobea, A