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- Natural Resources and Environment
- The purpose of the course is 1) to provide an overview of traditional and current issues in natural resource and environmental
economics and policy; and 2) to illustrate the methods devised by economists to tackle certain problems (for instance, how to estimate the demand for environmental quality in the absence of a market from which to obtain data on quantity demanded at each price level) along with the
advantages and limitations of these methods or look at interesting economic and policy-relevant issues. The course will have a very practical and policy oriented flavor.
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Economics considers the efficient and equitable use of society's scarce environmental resource. Environmental resources
include: air, water, land wilderness areas, parks wildlife and genetic diversity, and other scarce ecological systems. Use of these resources will be considered from three perspectives: the market allocation, the optimal allocation, and government attempts to achieve a more efficient and
equitable allocation. Environmental Economics is a course in applied welfare economics and will consider externalities (particularly with respect to pollution) and the economic evaluation of amenities (recreational and environmental) in detail.
- Solar Technology
- This course will deal with solar energy and sustainable design. As an introductory course, there will be opportunities to exercise both the right and left
sides of your brains. The first half of the course will carefully examine passive solar design. This is more of a science than is sustainable design. As a science, (passive solar design) there are formulas, calculations, angles and finites answers. This objective section of the course will give a
strong foundation for the second half; sustainable design. Sustainable design is more of a theory; an approach, than a science. The reasons for good solar design lie in broader issues. Social responsibility is not a subject but an ideal. It is out of our understanding of a broader series of
questions that more appropriate designs may emerge and responsible designs, so-called, may be built. To the end of solar design as a science, we will study the basics of solar technology, including: climate, heat gain/loss, passive solar concepts, storage, solar cycles, control, utilization,
strategies and so on.
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