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SEAD 530 Economics for Sustainability in Engineering and Design (3 credits)

Offered by: Trottier Inst Sust,Eng&Design (Faculty of Engineering)

Overview

SEAD : 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.

Terms: Winter 2025

Instructors: Ng, Gary (Winter)

  • (3-0-6)

  • Restriction: Only open to students in the Faculty of Engineering. Students outside of the Faculty of Engineering may register with permission of the instructor.

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