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Topics include environmental market failures, the efficient level of pollution, the design of environmental policy, measuring the demand for environmental quality, and distributional issues related to pollution. Specific problems such as air and water pollution and climate change will be discussed in both domestic and international contexts. Gain a set of tools to rigorously evaluate a range of real-world environmental problems through the lens of economics. ### requirements text ECON 301and (STAT 301,371,ECON 310,SOC/​C\&E SOC  360,PSYCH 210, orGEN BUS 307), or graduate/professional standing ### credits min 3 ### credits max 3 ### credit offering ids * 1274:108:027498 ### llm job id enrich-49752a259f17fab0f49665b3 ### llm output id 0110067776e423fb72f27a768a46f4b7e9b8dc8e61e27642e1a009dd2ad035e4 ### llm model Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B ### llm model revision 1d4bf0f2ff6012fd82039f2fa52739d0dd7c60c0 ### llm task version 17 ### llm search status valid ### llm summary Advanced treatment of environmental economics covering conceptual and empirical methods to analyze environmental issues, including market failures, pollution levels, and policy design. ### llm topics * Environmental market failures, efficient pollution levels, policy design, demand for environmental quality, and distributional issues. * Air and water pollution, and 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