Environmental Studies
ENVS 260 Economic Institutions and the Environment
Focuses on the economy's utilization of natural resources and ecosystems from the perspectives of New Institutional Economics (NIE) and Ecological Economics (EE). Concepts and tools from NIE and EE are introduced and then explored in the context of the extraction, transformation, transfer (sale), end-use, and deposition/recycling of natural resources. Open to advanced undergraduates with instructor permission.
Also offered as
ECON 260
Requirements
Enrollment restricted to graduate students.