ECO 312 NATURAL RESOURCE ECONOMICS

A quantitative exploration of issues in natural resource management. This course introduces modeling techniques to solve problems involving climate change, pollution control, water allocation, non-renewable resource extraction, fisheries management, and forestry. Emphasis is on solving constrained optimization problems via both analytical and computational methods. This course uses mathematical rigor to complement the graphical framework discussed in ECO 212.

Credits

4

Notes

ECO 212 may be taken concurrently if a student has received credit for ECO 205.

Cross Listed Courses

This is the same course as ES 302.

Prerequisite

MAT 112 (or a more advanced calculus course) and either ECO 205 or ECO 212.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 28 students.

Attributes

MOIC