Agronomia y Sistemas Naturales |
AGE305E | Environmental and Natural Resource Economics |
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DescripciónNombre en inglés: | ENVIRONMENTAL AND NATURAL RESOURCES ECONOMICS | Descripción: | This course provides a survey from the perspective of economics of public policy issues regarding the use of natural resources and the management of environmental quality. The course covers both conceptual and methodological topics and recent and current applications. The first part of the course is an introduction to the principles of environmental and resource economics. In the second part of the course, the focus is on natural resources, both nonrenewable and renewable resources. In the third part of the course, we examine environmental policy, with the focus on air pollution problems, including: local problems (both stationary and mobile sources) regional problems (acid rain) and global problems (climate change). In the fourth part of the course, the focus is on sustainability and macroeconomic aspects of environmental policy, including positive political economy. |
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