MPA : Natural Resources

The Natural Resources concentration provides students with a comprehensive examination of the legal, social, economic and political aspects of designing, implementing and evaluating natural resource management systems and policies.

The area prepares students to manage natural resource-oriented public agencies and non-profit organizations and to develop and assess natural resource policies.

Students have the option of specializing in a particular resource area such as water.

Students must select their concentration courses from the following list. Other courses must be approved by their advisor and the department.

• AREC 575 Economics of Water and Land Resources
• AREC 576 Advanced Natural Resource Economics
• AREC 577 Natural Resources Economics and Public Policy
• ATMO 521 Physical Climatology
• GEOG 561 Resource Management
• GEOG 578 Global Climate Change
• HWR 500 Ecosystemology for Urban Planning
• HWR 513 Environmental Risk Analysis
• HWR 520 Water Resources Management, Planning and Rights: A Policy Approach
• HWR 596k Risk and Society
• LAW 640 Mining and Public Land Law
• LAW 641 Water Law
• LAW 669 Environmental Law
• POL 581 Environmental Policy
• POL 596I Management and Policy for Ecological Sustainability
• RNR 517 Geographic Information Systems
• RNR 580 Natural Resources Policy and Administration
• RNR 586a Natural Resources Management and Economics
• RNR 595b Public Natural Resource Management
    

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