Course Summary
Increasingly, governments in recent decades have been pre-occupied with the well-being of their economies, as they struggle to either maintain or restore levels of economic prosperity. In this course you will explore how urban planners and environmental managers have been increasingly required to employ economics and a select number of economic tools to assess the potential impact of planning and environmental management decisions upon a city and its broader regional economy. You will explore this facet of spatial public policy analysis and investigate how economics is being used as a tool to make governance decisions about our urban and natural environments.