ProgramCIP 03.0204

Environmental/Natural Resource Economics

A program that focuses on the application of economic concepts and methods to the analysis of issues such as air and water pollution, land use planning, waste disposal, invasive species and pest control, conservation policies, and related environmental problems. Includes instruction in cost-benefit analysis, environmental impact assessment, evaluation and assessment of alternative resource management strategies, policy evaluation and monitoring, and descriptive and analytic tools for studying how environmental developments affect the economic system.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Environmental Economics and Policy.