Is economic growth compatible with environmental quality?  This course discusses how economic behavior impacts and is impacted by the environment.  We discuss how to design policies that promote economically and environmentally sustainable communities such as pollution pricing and property-rights approaches.  In addition, we discuss how communities can manage environmental commons problems by relying on local knowledge, norms, and institutions.  At the end of the course, students analyze data related to an environmental policy change, applying basic econometric techniques for program evaluation.