ENV 425 - Ecological Economics |
| Course Detail: |
An interdisciplinary Course aimed at grounding Economics to the physical realities of finite Nature; with a brief historical rundown of the early co-development of Economics and Natural Science and their gradual separation over time, the Course focuses on the ways and means of re-integration of Ecology and Economics - ecosystems and ecological services, laws of Thermodynamics, principles of carrying capacity and sustainable scale, irreversibility, internalization of externalities and resource depletion, substitutability vs. complementarily of natural and man-made capital, technology & sustainability, efficient allocation and fair distribution, measuring welfare and well-being, trade and community, policies and institutions for a sustainable economy at different spatial levels
[Pre-requisite: ENV 215 & ECO/ENV 260 ]
[Credit Hours: 3] |
