12:00 PM to 01:15 PM MW
Section Information for Spring 2015
This course will examine the conceptual and normative foundations of some of the environmental sciences, primarily environmental economics and ecology. The course will discuss in environmental economics whether and how well standard microeconomic concepts such as "market failure," "externality," and "collective action problem" are usefully applied in environmental policy, including climate change. In ecology, the course will discuss whether there are any forces that organize ecological "communities" or "systems," whether these concepts can be usefully defined, and the extent to which non-native species pose a threat to whatever unifying structure ecological units are thought to possess. Finally the course asks whether a good Anthropocene is possible, for example, whether normative conclusions are to be drawn from the apparent fact that human activity has become the principal driver of ecological change.
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Credits: 3
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