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ECON 4440 - Environmental Economics |
Explores how economics can address a variety of environmental issues ranging from climate change to local pollution. Topic areas include externalities and the social costs of pollution, valuation of non-market goods, climate change policy (emissions taxes and cap-and-trade), management of renewable resources (fisheries and forests), extraction of exhaustible resources (minerals and fossil fuels), and more. Focuses on global, regional, and local environmental policy.
3.000 Credit hours 3.000 Lecture hours Grade Basis: ALP Sch/Economics Department Course Attributes: Social Science Requirement Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Campuses: Georgia Tech-Atlanta * Prerequisites: Undergraduate Semester level ECON 2100 Minimum Grade of D or Undergraduate Semester level ECON 2106 Minimum Grade of D or Undergraduate Semester level ECON 2101 Minimum Grade of D |
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