Learn to make smart economic decisions and carefully manage natural resources with this unique minor! UW’s natural resource economics program prepares students for fulfilling careers in natural ...

Our environment is filled with scarce and finite resources — including clean air and water, fertile land, critical minerals, and energy resources — that are all impacted by human decisions.

Environment and Resource Economics is an interdisciplinary field that integrates economic analysis with ecological principles, addressing how natural resource scarcity, externalities and environmental ...

The Resource Curse: A Statistical Mirage? A surprising feature of resource-rich economies is slow growth. It is often argued that natural-resource production impedes development by creating market or ...

Students in this program study the production, distribution, and consumption of food, fiber, and energy in both developed and less-developed countries. To address these issues, the program emphasizes ...

The 10th edition of Environmental & Natural Resource Economics written by Tom Tietenberg and Elmer W. Campbell of Economics Lynne Lewis, Bates College, was published in February 2014. This ...

The University of Connecticut Board of Trustees Wednesday unanimously approved two new undergraduate majors within the College of Agriculture, Health and National Resources. The approved majors, which ...

How much would you pay for the scent of freshly cut rose flowers? How much would you pay to take a walk in a rain forest in Costa Rica? How much would you pay to scoop water from a spring up the ...

This article reviews the methodological and theoretical foundations of natural resource and environmental economics prior to an examination of three examples of topics of current interest in the field ...