Eli Fenichel
Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics
Environmental Policy Analysis Specialization
For students who seek to understand and employ analytical frameworks that apply to a broad range of environmental issue areas and are critical for strategic environmental policy within organizations that develop, analyze, practice and evaluate environmental and natural resource management.
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Note that a capstone course used to fulfill the MEM capstone requirement cannot also be used toward fulfilling an MEM Specialization requirement; a capstone course taken once cannot be used to fulfill multiple requirements. Learn more about YSE capstone courses by visiting the MEM Capstone page.
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 |
Faculty |
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 binsEconomic and Quantitative Methods for Policy Analysis
| Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall 2026 | Spring 2027 |
| ENV 617 Real World Environmental Data Science |
Grewal Tentative |
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| ENV 641 Market-Based Mechanisms for Water Management |
Pilz Tu 1:00-3:50 |
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| 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 |
Fenichel | ||
| ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis |
Gillingham M,W 10:30-11:50 |
Gillingham |
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ECON 132a Econometrics and Data Analysis II |
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ECON 136b Econometrics |
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ECON 545a Microeconomics |
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ECON 558a Statistics and Econometrics |
Environmental and Natural Resource Law and Governance
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.
| Course | Fall 2025 | Spring 2026 | Fall 2026 | Spring 2027 |
| ENV 697 Science for Policy and Practice: A Seminar |
Bradford Tu 1:00-2:20 |
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| ENV 794 Climate Ethics and Economics |
Rao |
Learning Community
There is a corresponding “Learning Community” for each specialization, where anyone interested in the topic can find related news, spotlights, colleagues, and events.
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