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.

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 ...

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

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 ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The always insightful Jim Hamilton has an interesting post at Econbrowser in which ...

Stand out with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Michigan Tech by choosing a personalized pathway in natural resources, data analytics, or business foundations. Study at a flagship technological ...

In the past few weeks, oil prices have fallen to record lows. This development was not predicted by the Hotelling rule, an equation proposed in 1931 that remains central to the economics of natural ...

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 ...

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 ...