Course Detail
Units:
3.0
Course Components:
Lecture
Enrollment Information
Enrollment Requirement:
Prerequisite: ECON 6710 or instructor's consent.
Description
Methods of curtailing pollution and alleviating environmental damage both internationally and domestically. Issues of environment and development equity, valuation and distribution. Also ecology and mathematical biology; dynamic equilibria of fishing and timber industries; depletion of nonrenewable resources. Intergenerational and intragenerational equity; species' extinction; entropy and thermodynamics; the future of economic growth.