ECO 334 - Resource and Environmental Economics

Course explores relationship between our modern market economy and present ecological and environmental problems. Students are introduced to models of steady state and ecological economics in addition to more traditional approaches to issues of depletion (conservation) and allocation of renewable and nonrenewable resources, pollution, population and food production. Not open to students with credit for ECO 335. Prerequisite: ECO 111. Fulfills: LASR. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code C = offered at least once every two years

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

1. Describe the challenges associated with reckoning the global market economy while protecting the earth.
2. Describe the interaction between the economy and ecosphere.
3. Utilize the approaches and methodologies used by economists to understand and seek resolutions to the many manifestations of the economy/earth problem.