• What are the health effects of air pollution?
• What are three specific sources of air pollution?

• What effects of climate change were documented during the period called “The Little Ice Age?”
• What innovations occurred in response to new climate extremes?

How are economic models applied to environmental systems?

• How has the tragedy of the commons resulted in overfishing?
• How can the concept of sustainable yield help prevent a collapse of the population growth of fish

• What is the difference between a hazard and a risk?
• How can a substance that is considered a low hazard present a substantial risk? How can a substance that is considered a low risk result in a major hazard?

• What is a negative externality?
• How do environmental economics allow us to determine the additional “costs” of a product to society (eg. a plastic bag) that may not be considered in the marginal cost curve (eg. the supply curve)?

• When do “commons tragedies” occur?
• How do we avoid commons tragedies?

• What is a positive externality?
• How do environmental economics allow us to determine the additional “benefits” of a product to society that may not be considered in the marginal cost curve (eg. the supply curve)?

  
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