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Environmental Policy Concentration

CIPA fellows in the Environmental Policy Concentration analyze and understand the formulation and management of domestic and/or international environmental policy. Students explore the ecological and political origins of current environmental policy issues and learn how to propose resolutions via organizational analysis, budgeting, financial analysis and reporting, probability theory, applied regression analysis and microeconomics.

In addition to the nine foundation courses, CIPA fellows who select the Environmental Policy concentration take a minimum of five courses related to their specific area of focus. The course list below, organized thematically to facilitate course selection, is designed to help fellows develop a particular area of study, but should not limit choices. CIPA fellows may elect to substitute other relevant courses, by petition, with the approval of their advisor.

Course List

Administration Politics and Public Policy

Dept.

Course

Title

Credits

Semester

Professor

AEM

555

Environmental Management and Policy

3

F

Chapman

ALS

661

Environmental Policy (also B&SOC and BIOEE 461)

6

F

Pimentel

BEE

754

Watershed Management: Integrating Science, Policy and Public Participation

4

S

Steenhuis Pfeffer

GOVT

687

International Environmental Policy

4

S

Carlson

NTRES

402

Environmental and Natural Resource Policy and Policy Processes

3

S

Knuth

NTRES

458

Human Dimensions of Natural Resource Management

4

S

Enck

NTRES

604

Seminar on Selected Topics in Resource Policy and Management

2

F

Staff

Economics and Public Finance

AEM

450

Resource Economics

3

F

Conrad

AEM

451

Environmental Economics and Policy

4

S

Poe

AEM

651

Environmental and Resource Economics

4

S

Scholze

AEM

660

Agroecosystems, Economic Development and the Environment

4

S

Lee

Quantitative Analysis

BEE

425

Science and Technology of Environmental Management

3

F

Staff

Focus Courses

BEE

478

Ecological Engineering

4

S

Jewell

CEE

454

Sustainable Small-Scale Water Supplies

3

F

Weber/Shirk

CEE

492

Engineers for a Sustainable World: Engineering in International Development

3

F

Davidson Doing

CEE

620

Water Resources Systems Engineering

4

S

Loucks

CEE

628

Environmental and Water Resources Systems Analysis Seminar

1

S

Shoemaker

CRP

451

Environmental Law

4

F

Booth

CRP

544

Resource Management and Environmental Law

4

F

Booth

CRP

546

Introduction to Community and Environmental Dispute Resolution

3

F

Forrester

CRP

653

Legal Aspects of Land-Use Planning

4

S

Booth

CSS

672

Nutrient Cycling in Natural and Human-Impacted Ecosystems

3

F

Lehman

NBA

573

Seminar in Sustainable Development

3

S

McAdams

NS

642

Globalization, Food Security, and Poverty

2

F

Pinstrup-Andersen

NTRES

308

Natural Resource Planning and Management

3

F

Lauber

NTRES

314

Environmental Governance

3

S

Wolf

NTRES

406

Ecology Risk Assessment

4

F

Gillett

NTRES

407

Religion, Ethics, and the Environment

4

F

Baer

NTRES

411

Seminar in Environmental Ethics

4

F

Sullivan

NTRES

420

Ecological Management of Water Resources

3

F

Fahey, T.S.

NTRES

431

Environmental Strategies

3

F

Wolf

NTRES

444

Resource Management and Environmental Law

3

S

Booth

NTRES

631

Environmental Governance

4

S

Wolf

 

Recently Completed Theses:

"Challenge of the Japanese Employment system: How results-oriented Wage and Appraisal Systems Function" (Author Naomi Ezoe. Thesis Advisor: Prof. David Lewis)

"Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms: A Comparative Political Study of Brazil and India" (Author: Urbahi Poddar. Thesis Advisor: Prof. Ron Herring)


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