CGET 601 Environmental Economics (2 credits)
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Course Description :
This course offers a contribution to the efforts to
incorporate environmental concerns into development. The main objectives of the
course are : (1) to discuss, from an economic perspective, the cause of
environmental degradation, (2) to provide a conceptual framework for information
management in order to support decision-making involving the environment, (3) to
provide an overview of economic methods that can assist in the evaluation of
environmental costs and benefit, (4) to give examples of applications to the
theoretical methods, and (5) to review environmental legislation in different
countries as well as intergovernmental agreements.
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