Season 2, Episode 8

Danae Hernandez-Cortes on Environmental Economics and Justice

On this episode of Free Range, Mike Livermore is joined by Danae Hernandez-Cortes, an economist and professor in the School of Sustainability at Arizona State University who studies environmental justice and the distributional consequences of environmental policy.

Episode is an appropriate teaching tool for but not limited to the following topics & courses: environmental economics, environmental justice, environmental policy

Discussion Questions

  • Which forms of inequality share a causal or correlative relationship with environmental inequality?
  • Explain the pros and cons of market-based mechanisms as solutions to environmental inequality.
  • What are some of the reasons for the current state of environmental inequality?

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