Transfers ToUC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4B · CSU GE Area D2DescriptionThis course provides an overview of natural and environmental resources and their relationship with economics. Course themes include: The optimist and pessimist models, property rights, externalities, public goods, population growth, and valuation issues, as well as a study of natural resources, including renewable, nonrenewable, and nonexhaustible resources, a study of local and global pollution and potential solutions to pollution issues, a comparative analysis of Less Developed Countries and the United States, an examination of the role of agriculture and population, a reconsideration of global and local sustainability issues, and analysis of the impacts of economics on environmental policies. 