ENVS 2500

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ENVS 2500
Environmental and Resource Economics

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

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.


Prerequisites ECON 1110.

Forbidden Overlaps AEM 1500, AEM 2500, ENVS 1500, ENVS 2500

Enrollment Information Enrollment preference given to: Dyson students and E&S majors.

Distribution Requirements (SBA-AG), (OCE-IL)

Exploratory Studies (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025FA, 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AEM 2500

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8711 ENVS 2500   LEC 001

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Ortiz Bobea, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AEM 2500

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8712 ENVS 2500   LEC 002

  •  
    • TR
    • Aug 25 - Dec 8, 2025

    • Ortiz Bobea, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person