ECON 481

Environmental Economics II

Units: 1.5, Hours: 3-0

A detailed treatment of advanced topics in environmental economics. Topics covered will vary from year to year, but will typically include a selection from the following: property rights and the Coase theorem, risk and uncertainty, sustainability, policy design under asymmetric information, monitoring and enforcement, green consumerism and corporate environmentalism, trade and the environment, climate change and transboundary pollution, mobile source pollution, non-point source pollution, solid waste management, technological change, and non-market valuation.

Prerequisites: 313; one of 330, 381, ES 312; 225 or ENGR 240 or a minimum grade of B+ in ENGL 135, 146 or 147.

Undergraduate course in Economics offered by the Department of Economics in the Faculty of Social Sciences.