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NR-4014: Natural Resources Economics

Description: Examination of domestic and international natural resource use, exploitation, and degradation problems, with special focus on use of economics to understand why potential overuse of natural resources exists, and what policy options are available to correct these problems and ensure sustainable natural resource use over time. Water, forests, fisheries, land and exhaustible resources. Permission of instructor may be substituted for the pre-requisite.

Pathways: N/A

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: AAEC-1005 or ECON-2005

Required By: FREC-4434

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: FREC-4014

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 4

Average GPA: 3.46 (A-)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 33.63%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 0.00%

Gregory S Amacher201354.4%40.9%4.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.503
Do Valle Stella Z Schons202120.0%80.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.321

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