SEAD 530 — Economics for Sustainability in Engineering and Design

Micro and macroeconomics of sustainability, market structures, principles of substitution, market failures and externalities, monetization and pricing of externalities. Policy instruments, permits and licenses, mandates, incentives, penalties, taxation and eco-social principles, mechanism design, the principles of life cycle analyses and the circular economy. Impact of engineering on ecological and economic sustainability.

• Credits: 3
• Faculty: Faculty of Engineering
• Department: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design