Minor Overview
- About this minor
- This minor addresses humanity's greatest challenge—how to balance the need for economic wellbeing with the pressing need to protect the environment. Environmental economics is about analysing this challenge and finding solutions to problems like climate change, air pollution and biodiversity loss. The Minor will enhance work-readiness of STEM and non-STEM students as emerging professionals by broadening discipline specific knowledge and skills in contexts they might otherwise not encounter. Furthermore, the structure of this multidisciplinary Minor will prepare students to be adaptable and socially engaged citizens For students taking a minor which shares units with their other unit sets (majors or minors): in order for minors to be recognised on academic and graduation documents, students may only have a maximum of one unit overlapping between their unit sets.
- Outcomes
- Students are able to (1) Employ the framework of microeconomics to analyse environmental problems.; (2) Appreciate the scientific basis of environmental problems.; and (3) Communicate the results of environmental economic research to fellow economists as well as a range of potential stakeholders including
policymakers in government, scientists and the public at large.. - Incompatibility
MJD-ENVDM Environmental Science and Management;
MJD-ENVMT Environmental Management;
Units
Key to availability of units:
- S1
- Semester 1
- S2
- Semester 2
Take all units (12 points):
| Availability | Unit code | Unit name | Unit requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1, S2 | ECON1120 | Environmental Economics 1 | None |
| S1 | ENVT1104 | Environmental Science and Technology | None |
Take the following unit:
| Availability | Unit code | Unit name | Unit requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | ECON2224 | Environmental Economics 2 |
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Take the following unit:
| Availability | Unit code | Unit name | Unit requirements |
|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | ECON3323 | Business and the Environment |
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