The Environmental Economics course explores the intricate relationship between economic systems and the environment. It examines how economic activities impact natural ecosystems and how environmental challenges, in turn, influence economic decision-making. This course provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and addressing critical issues such as climate change, resource scarcity, pollution, and sustainable development. In-depth study of economic systems and the environment, basic knowledge of market systems and their efficiency, societal choices in environmental protection, market failures and solutions, environmental management using command and control approaches, environmental management using economic incentives, measures for evaluating environmental policies, and the economic value of the environment.