Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development

This course is structured to provide the student with a broad appreciation of the economic constraints and opportunities of environmentally sustainable development, ecological preservation and the formulation of attendant policies by the federal and local governments. In addition the course will examine the role of regulation of the private, financial, utility, and housing sectors in obtaining a stable environment. This course will view corporate and private financial operations and regulation through the lens of their consequences for environmentally sustainable development. Students will be expected to discuss the nature of evolving environmental economics and ecological regulation through the present time in relation to the emerging measurements of the natural sciences concerning the consequences of economic activity and the needs of private enterprise for economic development.