Economy, Technology, and Sustainability

ECON-4250

This course explores the relationships between the economy and the material world. It identifies the most critical challenges to sustainable economic development on local to global scales and ways of addressing them. The course examines options surrounding material and energy flows, technological alternatives, livelihoods, consumption behavior, public policy, civil society institutions, and social movements as avenues for meeting the major challenges to sustainability.

4 credits Communication Intensive PDII Option for Engr Majors

Past Term Data

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Offered as Cross-Listing Only
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Spring Summer Fall
(Session 1) (Session 2)
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 21/0
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 14/19
2016
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 19/19
2015
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 18/0
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 20/0
2014
Economics, Technology And Sustainability (4c) [CI] [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 8/0
2013
Ecological Economics (4c) [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 4/5
2012
2011
Ecological Economics (4c) [PDII]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 4/10
2010
2009
Ecological Economics (4c) [WI]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 8/30
2008
Ecological Economics (4c) [WI]
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 9/25
2007
Ecological Economics (4c)
  • Faye Duchin
Seats Taken: 9/20
2006
Ecological Economics (4c)
  • David I. Stern
Seats Taken: 15/40
2005
2004
Ecological Economics (4c)
  • David I. Stern
Seats Taken: 8/30
2003
2002
Ecological Economics (4c)
  • John M Gowdy
Seats Taken: 34/50
2001
2000
Ecological Economics (4c)
  • Jon Erickson
Seats Taken: 10/45
1999
1998