ECON 6535
Administrative procedures; market approaches; of general applicability to environmental problems; aimed at the first party participant.
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.