Taught in Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and may not be offered every semester. In this course, you’ll work with analytical tools with the goal of exploring how to apply them to current issues such as climate change, environmental pollution in cities, and de-forestation, among others. The course will provide tools for critical analysis and promote discussion and problem-solving through the study of the interaction between society and its natural environment from a socioeconomic perspective.
Upon successful completion of this course, you’ll be able to:
- To describe the role of the economy in the management of socio-environmental issues.
- To characterize socio-environmental issues incorporating the understanding of their genesis and the interaction between their social and environmental components.
- To solve socio-environmental problems by integrating the concepts of economic efficiency and equity.
- To analyze a socio-environmental issue with a team and propose a solution to it.
- To critically analyze your own and others’ opinions about the state of knowledge, and study methodologies around environmental policies.
(PUC AGE313)
Department: Economics
Location: Santiago
Credits: 3