Michigan State University offers an undergraduate major in the field of environmental economics and policy. Offered through the Department of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, this bachelor of science degree requires students to take at least 15 credit hours in the field of environmental economics and policy. The total number of credit hours required for the degree is 120. Students have a multitude of course options to choose from within the environmental economic policy discipline. Some of these include areas such as environmental toxicology and the environment, land development, real estate principles and construction finance, community economics, environmental and natural resources, forests and the global environment, world food, population and poverty, and corporate environmental management. Michigan State also offers a master of science and a Ph.D. in the field of environmental and resource economics.
Environmental Economics and Policy Program
1 Agriculture Hall
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824
517-432-5298
www.aec.msu.edu
Harvard University offers academic programs in environmental economics, but does so as part of a university-wide initiative. In other words, the environmental economics program is not limited to one specific department. Instead, researchers from various fields of study contribute to the body of knowledge in the field. Students wanting to specialize in the field of environmental economics generally choose one of five Ph.D. programs: public policy, political economy and government, economics, health policy, and business economics. Areas of research typically covered by the various Harvard programs include global climate change, energy policy, trade, development and the environment, the costs of environmental protection, the benefits of environmental protection, corporate social responsibility, and the political economy of environmental and resource policy. Harvard does not offer any undergraduate degree programs in this field.
Harvard University
John F. Kennedy School of Government
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
617-496-8054
www.hks.harvard.edu
The University of Georgia also offers a master of science degree and a Ph.D. in environmental economics through its College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. The master's degree program is a 36 credit hour program, while the Ph.D. requires a minimum of 63 credit hours of graduate study in the field. Both programs emphasize the application of economic methods and theories to solve environmental problems. Courses offered as part of these programs include farm organization and management, agribusiness marketing, analysis of agribusiness and natural resource issues, environmental and public health law, land economics and appraisal, and food security, economic development and the environment.
University of Georgia
College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences
Conner Hall
Athens, GA 30602
706-542-3924
www.uga.edu