After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

In the globalized age, the intersection of business and environmental policy is crucial to our collective future. To address complex issues, such as climate change and resource depletion, we need to ...

Economics and the problems facing the earth are intertwined. Human economic activity has caused global warming and a ...

Explore how uneconomic growth harms the environment and society, outweighing short-term benefits. Learn why sustainable ...

Environmental and natural resource economics deals with the economics of pollution control, policies and economic incentives for dealing with pollution and the basic economic principles for the ...

Economics is in many ways a novel subject, only gaining momentum in the past 100 years, and only more recently has modern economic theory begun to be developed. On the subject of sustainability, we ...

Deepen your understanding of the economic forces that shape environmental policy, resource use, and sustainability with a certificate in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics. Through courses ...

Herman Daly wrote the forward to my new book "The Progress Illusion" (Island Press, 2022). We also co-authored a workbook in ecological economics, also published by Island Press. Herman Daly had a ...

The transition from coal-dependent economies to ones driven by sustainable energy sources presents a global challenge in balancing climate action, energy access, and economic development. The “just ...

Human health and the natural environment are indivisible. A recent article in the journal The Lancet reminds us that “economic decisions on the environment have major impacts on human health, and ...

EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Wildfire smoke costs Oregon households $450 per day as they try to adapt by purchasing air purifiers, canceling trips and keeping children at home to minimize their exposure, ...

Three of the many projects currently up for consideration by TRPA are similar in that they are touted as providing improvement for the local economy in spite of causing significant negative impacts on ...