AEM 6510

Environmental and Resource Economics

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

Review of welfare economics, environmental externalities, and common property resources, and a survey of current environmental and natural resource policy. Covers techniques for measuring benefits and costs-including property value and wage hedonic approaches, travel cost models, and contingent evaluation. Describes survey/data collection methods in detail. Explores innovative market mechanisms for resolving public good, common property, and externality problems. Students are required to complete a paper describing their own formal economic analysis of a natural resource or environmental problem.

Prerequisites/Corequisites Prerequisite: MATH 1110, ECON 3030 or their equivalents.

Permission Note Enrollment limited to: graduate students.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2024SP, 2023SP, 2021FA

When Offered Spring.

Satisfies Requirement Core course for environmental management concentration/option.

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