As a society and as individuals, we make decisions every day that affect the environment.  The Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics major prepares students to analyze environmental and resource problems and to evaluate alternative solutions to these problems using the methods, concepts, and techniques of environmental and natural resource economics.

Our graduates use the ideas and methods of economics to understand the forces that lead us to act in ways that either help or degrade the environment.  With this knowledge, they are able to offer information and insights to help individuals, businesses, and policymakers improve and protect the environment.

Are you interested in:

• working with people in their own neighborhoods to create positive and sustainable change?
• building skills to tackle important environmental and development issues facing today’s communities?
• enabling communities to make critically important decisions about people, resources, and the environment?
• learning methods to help developing countries and communities achieve sustainable growth?
• discovering the relationships between local decisions and global impacts?  

If so, please take a look at our brand new major Community, Environment, and Development.   We are no longer accepting students into the Environmental and Renewable Resource Economics major. For more information about this change, or about the new Community, Environment, and Development major, please contact:  Megan Sinasky.