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Minor in Environmental Economics and Law


The minor in Environmental Economics and Law is designed to provide students with basic skills in economic and legal analysis, and to teach them how to apply those tools to environmental problems. Students will emerge from this minor with in-depth knowledge about issues related to environmental protection and natural resource management and possibly sustainable development or land-use planning. There are no prerequisites for this minor.

Hours

Required for the Environmental Economics and Law Minor

3 ACE/ECON/ENVS/NRES/UP 210-Environmental Economies
3 ACE/ENVS/NRES 310-Natural Resource Economics
3 ACE 406-Environmental Law
3-4 One course selected from:

 

ACE 100 - Agr Cons and Resource Econ
ECON 102 - Microeconomics
3 One course selected from:

 

ACE 403 - Agricultural Law
BADM - The Legal Environment of Bus
UP 108 - Planning Policy and Law
3 One course selected from:

 

ACE 411 - Environment and Development
ECON 414 - Urban Economics
ECON 484 - Law and Economics
UP 408-Law and Planning

A minimum of 18 hours must be completed for this minor. Courses in the minor cannot be completed Credit/No Credit.

Enrollment in the Environmental Economics and Law minor is not available to students enrolled in the Economics and Policy concentration of the Department of ACE or in the Human Dimensions option of the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences.