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Yoram K Bauman
ECON 235
Seattle Campus

Introduction to Environmental Economics

Introduces non-economics majors to environmental and natural resource economics. Discussion of fundamental economic concepts, including markets and private property. Students learn basic tools used in the economic assessment of environmental problems and apply these methods to key environmental issues. Offered: jointly with ENVIR 235

Class description

There will be a focus on climate change economics in this class. There is no econ prerequisite and students will be assumed to have no econ background. The class will involve some fairly basic mathematics (exponents, graphs, etc) and a good deal of mathematical thinking.

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The information above is intended to be helpful in choosing courses. Because the instructor may further develop his/her plans for this course, its characteristics are subject to change without notice. In most cases, the official course syllabus will be distributed on the first day of class.

Last Update by Yoram K Bauman
Date: 06/10/2009