AAEC-3324: Environment and Sustainable Development Economics
Description: Sustainable development through an exploration of hard and soft green schools of thought. Hard Green Strategies – reliance on markets, technology, property rights, human ingenuity to increase production efficiency versus Soft Green Strategies-adoption of simpler lifestyles, government subsidies, natural design of buildings (biomimicry), and urban infrastructure to locate public transportation hubs nearest to densely populated neighborhoods to decrease consumption of natural resources. Connecting the influence of place in personal and group identity. Interdisciplinary examination of environmental justice among poor and minority U.S. communities. Social equity distribution of the economic costs and benefits of natural resources management policies. Roles of property rights, economic incentives, religious values, and political power in determining local communities’ capacity to control their environmental destiny.
Pathways: 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 7 Identity & Equity in U.S., 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.
Course Hours: 3 credits
Corequisites: N/A
Crosslist: N/A
Repeatability: N/A
Sections Taught: 13
Average GPA: 3.11 (rounds to B)
Strict A Rate (No A-) : 21.17%
Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.91%
| Wei Zhang | 2024 | 40.3% | 48.5% | 8.2% | 1.1% | 0.0% | 1.9% | 3.28 | 4 |
| Chenyang Hu | 2023 | 43.3% | 33.3% | 13.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 10.0% | 3.31 | 1 |
| Michael J Ellerbrock | 2024 | 39.2% | 37.4% | 13.5% | 6.4% | 2.1% | 1.4% | 3.02 | 6 |
| Elinor Benami | 2022 | 28.9% | 35.6% | 21.7% | 5.8% | 2.0% | 6.0% | 2.92 | 2 |