Environmental Policy Analysis Specialization

Program Courses

Core

Two courses required.

Course 1

Required for all Environmental Policy Analysis students.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 834 Environmental Economics and Policy		Faculty M,W 9:00-10:20		Kotchen

Course 2

Choose one of these two courses.

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 821 Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global	Sanford M,W 1:00-2:20		Sanford
ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy		Klee M,W 1:00-2:20		Klee

Elective

Students must take at least one course from each of the following two bins

Economic and Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 641 Market-Based Mechanisms for Water Management		Pilz Tu 1:00-3:50
ENV 730 Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning	Malone Th 2:30-5:20		Malone
ENV 757 Data Exploration and Analysis	Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 9:00-10:15	Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 9:00-10:15	Reuning-Scherer	Reuning-Scherer
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences		Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 1:00-2:15		Reuning-Scherer
ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models		Fenichel M,W 9:00-10:20
ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis		Gillingham M,W 10:30-11:50		Gillingham

ECON 132a Econometrics and Data Analysis II
ECON 136b Econometrics
ECON 545a Microeconomics
ECON 558a Statistics and Econometrics

Environmental and Natural Resource Law and Governance

Course	Fall 2025	Spring 2026	Fall 2026	Spring 2027
ENV 639 Food Systems and Climate Services	Hernandez-Aguilera Tu,Th 10:30-11:50
ENV 682 Environmental Justice/Water Justice	Torres M,W 10:30-11:50		Torres
ENV 761 Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change	Biniaz M 1:30-3:20		Biniaz
ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition	Rhodes Th 1:00-3:50		Rhodes Tentative
ENV 823 Energy Law and Policy (Follows Law School Calendar)				Faculty Tentative
ENV 831 Urban Planning Strategies for Sustainable Development	Salazar Miranda Th 1:00-3:50
ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives	Klee M,W 1:00-2:20		Klee
ENV 854 Food Systems Transformation and Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South	Omilola Th 2:30-5:20

Additional Electives

Two courses.

Environmental Policy Analysis students should also develop expertise in some specific environmental or natural resource problem or issue (e.g., renewable energy, water resources, environmental health, forest management, biological diversity, climate change, conservation, etc.). Students are encouraged to look at other specializations to develop this two-course sequence (e.g., Energy and the Environment, Ecosystem Conservation and Management, Water Resource Management, and others). The core requirements of other specializations are a natural fit here. Students may also develop the sequence based on their own interests, but should make the case that the two courses are consistent with developing an area of topical concentration. The two-course sequence must be approved by the specialization coordinator prior to the student’s last semester.