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2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 UMass Dartmouth Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

ECO 337 - Environmental Economics

Credits 3
Lecture / 3 hours per week
Requirements: Prerequisite: ECO 231
This course will study the fascinating and growing field of environmental and natural resource economics. All the topics covered (e.g., property rights and externalities, regulation and pollution control) will be examined as part of the general focus on the problem of economic growth in the presence of limited environmental and natural resources. We will employ the tools from `basic’ microeconomic theory to study the relationship between the economy and the natural environment Cross-listed with POL 346
Graded