ECON 360 - Environmental Economics

Units: 3 ; Breadth Area: Sustainability Overlay
Socioeconomic effects of local, national, global environmental policies promoting sustainability. Discussions include interaction between human activities/natural resources, alternative environmental policies on air/water pollution, water management, resource depletion, open access problem, solid waste, forestry/fishery management, global warming, and environmental justice.

Breadth Area(s) Satisfied: Overlay - Sustainability
Prerequisites: ECON 200 and ECON 205.
Possible Instructional Methods: On-ground, or Hybrid, or Online-Asynchronous.
Grading: A-F grading only.
Course Typically Offered: Spring ONLY

Student Learning Outcomes - Upon successful completion of this course students will be able to:

Identify the environmental, social, and economic dimensions of sustainability, within and beyond market activities. Apply basic principles of economics to environmental issues,
Explain how individual and societal choices affect prospects for environmentally beneficial, economically optimal, and sustainable society at the local, regional, and/or global levels. Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems; describe key threats to environmental sustainability,
Know basic economic models pertaining to the use and conservation of depletable resources and renewable resources,
Understand basic approaches to “optimal” pollution and optimal pollution control,
Understand discrepant effects of environmental problems on different population groups.

Sustainability Overlay Learning Outcomes

Discuss multiple dimensions of sustainability, including the scientific, social, cultural, and/or economic.
Analyze interactions between human activities and natural systems.
Describe strategies taken by individuals, communities, organizations, or governments for mitigating and/or adapting to key threats to environmental sustainability.