Teaching
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Economic Approaches to Environment and Development
This course explores the relationships between economic development and the environment through real-world examples, drawing on conceptual frameworks from development and environmental economics.
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Environmental Economics
This course develops the conceptual frameworks of microeconomics and environmental economics that are essential for an environmental professional. Topics covered include markets and market failures; nonmarket valuation of environmental goods and services; environmental regulation; benefit-cost analysis; and natural resource allocation.
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Quantitative Methods for Public Policy
This course is an introduction to the methods and tools used in applied public policy research. The course begins with a short review of fundamental statistical concepts including probability distribution functions, estimators, sampling distributions, and hypothesis testing. It then turns to estimation and inference in the simple and multivariate regression models.
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Environmental Studies Capstone
This course is the capstone experience for students pursuing a major in Environmental Studies. The primary goal of this course is to reconvene the cohort of students who have pursued various courses within the major to reflect upon their learning as a group.