ENVIRON 134Environmental Economics with Data Analysis
Environment · 4 units · Undergraduate upper division (100-199)
Examination of challenges of balancing environmental protection with wants and needs of people in economy. Focus on how to design efficient public policies that meet environmental goals. How to quantify cause-and-effect relationships, for example, between pollution and infant mortality, using non-experimental data.
P/NP or letter grading.
When it runs
- Spring 2026
- Spring 2027
Scheduled, not typical — from UCLA’s Schedule of Classes, which publishes Fall 2025 through Spring 2027 and nothing before it.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisite: one course from Economics 41, Life Sciences 40, Political Science 6, Statistics 10, 12, 13, or other statistical analysis course approved by instructor.
Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
ENVIRON 134
- ECON 41Probability and Statistics for Economists
- LIFESCI 40Statistics of Biological Systems
- LIFESCI 30AMathematics for Life Scientists
- POL SCI 6Introduction to Data Analysis
- STATS 10Introduction to Statistical Reasoning
- STATS 12Introduction to Statistical Methods for Geography and Environmental Studies
- STATS 13Introduction to Statistical Methods for Life and Health Sciences
6 direct requisites. The whole upstream is here — 11 courses over 3 levels. Every course here opens its own tree.
Unlocks
What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
No course in the catalog lists this as a requisite.