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| Overview of Environmental
Resources and Policy Program |
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The central focus of the Environmental
Resources and Policy Ph.D. is advanced inter-disciplinary training
and research on physical, biological, and social processes responsible
for natural resource and environmental problems facing contemporary
society. Additionally, the ER&P Ph.D. focuses on assessing public
policy alternatives to address those problems and create new opportunities.
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| The curriculum is designed to
be information-rich, utilizing such computer-based technologies
as the Internet and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), and focused
on inter-disciplinary ideas, such as those articulated by the United
Nations Environment Program, the World Resources Institute and Resources
for the Future. |
| Through the six problem-oriented
and industry-oriented concentrations, the ER&P Ph.D. is a course
of study that is particularly well suited to training and re-training
environmental and natural resource professionals, in public agencies
and private-sector firms. However, it should also serve to educate
a new generation of inter-disciplinary academics as well. |
| The central problem addressed
by the ER&P Ph.D. is sustainability -- meeting the economic needs
of the present while maintaining the natural capital required to
meet the economic and environmental needs of the future. |
| A primary objective of the ER&P
Ph.D. is to provide students with an advanced interdisciplinary
education in the physical, biological, and social processes that
generate natural resources, natural hazards, and environmental quality
problems -- with a perspective on public policy and social institutions
that shape societal and individual reactions to environmental issues.
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 This education will prepare students to
work with multifaceted environmental issues and enable them to carry
out interdisciplinary scientific research and be qualified for higher
level administrative positions in government, the private sector,
and an evolving niche within academia for inter-disciplinary environmental
analysts. |
