Environmental Policy

AMERICAN CULTURE STUDIES 454

The course will examine the relationship between environmental economics and environmental policy. The course will focus on air pollution, water pollution, and hazardous wastes, with some attention given to biodiversity and global climate change. The course will examine critically two prescriptions that economics usually endorses: (1) "balancing" of benefits against costs (e.g., benefit-cost analysis) and the use of risk analysis in evaluating policy alternatives; (2) use of market incentives (e.g., prices, taxes, or charges) or "property rights" instead of traditional command-and-control regulations to implement environmental policy. Prerequisite: Econ 1011.
Course Attributes: EN S; BU Eth; BU BA; AS SSC; FA SSC; AR SSC

Section 01

Environmental Policy
INSTRUCTOR: Pollak
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