ENVIRON 250Tools for Sustainability Assessment
Environment · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Public discourse about implications of current patterns of production and consumption of energy and various goods and services suggests such patterns are unsustainable. What is meant by sustainability and how is it quantified? Focus on concepts and tools to assess sustainability at micro-level of individuals, products, or firms using various techniques, including lifecycle assessment, input-output analysis, and cost-benefit analysis. Exploration of sustainability at macro-level for one entire economy or nation. Discussion of usefulness and limitations of various metrics as guide for public and private decision making.
S/U or letter grading.
When it runs
Not on the schedule for any of Fall 2025 through Spring 2027. UCLA publishes only that window, so this does not mean the course is gone — check the official listing.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Recommended preparation: introductory course in industrial ecology, ecological economics, environmental economics, business and management, or public policy analysis.
BruinTree reads · Recommended
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- · could not read "ecological economics" (no course number found)
- · could not read "environmental economics" (no course number found)
- · could not read "business" (no course number found)
- · could not read "management" (no course number found)
- · could not read "public policy analysis" (no course number found)
- · mixed comma-level AND/OR in "introductory course in industrial ecology, ecological economics, environmental economics, business and management, or public policy analysis" — grouping is a best reading
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Requires
Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
Nothing — this is an entry point.
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.