Spring 2024
ENVECON 153 001 - LEC 001
Population, Environment, and Development
Ethan Ligon
Jan 16, 2024 - May 03, 2024
Tu
04:00 pm - 05:59 pm
Social Sciences Building 110
Class #:15296
Units: 3
Instruction Mode:
In-Person Instruction
Offered through
Agricultural and Resource Economics and Policy
Current Enrollment
Total Open Seats:
1
Enrolled: 53
Waitlisted: 0
Capacity: 54
Waitlist Max: 30
No Reserved Seats
Hours & Workload
2 hours of instructor presentation of course materials per week, 6 hours of outside work hours per week, and 2 hours of instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.
Final Exam
FRI, MAY 10TH
07:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Social Sciences Building 166
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Course Catalog Description
This course takes a quantitative, hands-on approach to understanding the challenges of feeding the human population of the planet Earth. We’ll discuss topics of nutrition, subsistence food consumption, and consumer demand for food to develop our understanding of the current situation. We’ll then develop both theories and computer models of population dynamics taking into account people’s decisions about childbearing, changes in mortality, and changes in food supply in order to learn something about the future of food. Focus throughout the course will be on developing practical tools to work with real-world data.
Class Notes
Prerequisites: ENVECON 100 or ECON 100A or ECON 101A, and STAT C8 or INFO C8 or COMPSCI C8, and MATH 54 RECOMMENDED
Rules & Requirements
Repeat Rules
Course is not repeatable for credit.
Reserved Seats
Current Enrollment
No Reserved Seats
Textbooks & Materials
See class syllabus or https://calstudentstore.berkeley.edu/textbooks for the most current information.
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