90-893 Policy Topics: Environment Policy

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This class will challenge students to consider and evaluate current environmental problems while developing tools for working in the policy world. Students will explore approaches from both environmental economics and policy, including regulatory, marketbased, and voluntary tools. Students will apply their knowledge of costbenefit analysis to controversial issues and discover and debate key challenges. The current issues will draw students to consider issues of governance, such as the reach of executive authority and the relationship between federal and state government. In exploring these matters of policy design and environmental management, the course will analyze issues in climate change, air quality, water policy, energy supply, and resource management.

Prerequisites: none listed

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