ECON 335 Sustainability
Cross-listed with
GEOG 335 and
SUST 335. This course is an exploration of the three components fundamental to sustainable development: economic growth, environmental protection, and social equity. Students review basic concepts and theories of both microeconomics and macroeconomics, including costs and benefits, economic growth, income, wealth, equity, and poverty, and then explore how nations, through economic growth, can meet their basic needs of employment, food, energy, water, and sanitation. Students also examine how natural resources can be used, conserved, and enhanced. Prerequisite:
ECON 201. Credit can only be awarded for one course, either
ECON 335, or
GEOG 335, or
SUST 335.
Prerequisite
ECON-201