Dec 08, 2024  
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025 
    
Yakima Valley College Catalog 2024-2025

ECON 314: Economics and the Environment

5 Cr
Quarters: O
ECON 314 offers students the opportunity to examine current environmental issues using an economics lens.  Students will apply key economic concepts such as supply and demand, cost/benefit measurement, resource allocation, economic development, equity and efficiency, and the notion of externalities to important environmental issues like pollution, fossil fuel consumption, and climate change.  Students will also evaluate the economic impact of environmental policies designed to remedy environmental change.
Prerequisite: Admission into a BAS program at YVC.
Distribution for BAS: Social Sciences