ENVI 386
Environmental Policy and Natural Resource Management Fall 2009
Division II Quantative/Formal Reasoning
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This course considers environmental protection and natural resource management as an element of development policy and planning. Economic concepts are applied to environmental and natural resource problems as they relate to developing countries. Questions to be covered include the following: How do institutions affect patterns of resource use? What is the relationship between economic growth and demand for environmental quality? How does trade affect environmental quality and resource exploitation? What are the tradeoffs between efficiency and equity when it comes to environmental protection and natural resource management? What are strategies for measuring and implementing sustainable development? Course subject matter consists of a combination of analytical models and country-specific studies.
The Class: Format: lecture/discussion/seminar
Limit: 25
Expected: 20
Class#: 1669
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: written problem sets, a midterm and a research paper and/or a final exam
Prerequisites: Economics 251, familiarity with statistics
Enrollment Preferences: senior Economic majors and CDE masters
Distributions: Division II Quantative/Formal Reasoning
Attributes: ENVI Environmental Policy
MAST Interdepartmental Electives

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