Eli Fenichel
Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics
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.
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.
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ENV 834 Environmental Economics and Policy |
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ENV 821 Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global |
Sanford M,W 1:00-2:20 |
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ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy |
Klee |
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ENV 617 Real World Environmental Data Science |
Grewal Tentative |
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ENV 730 Environmental Data Science in R: Introduction to Data Integration and Machine Learning |
Malone Th 2:30-5:20 |
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ENV 757 Data Exploration and Analysis |
Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 9:00-10:15 |
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ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences |
Reuning-Scherer | |||
ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models |
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ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis |
Gillingham |
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 |
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ENV 639 Food Systems and Climate Services |
Hernandez-Aguilera Tu,Th 10:30-11:50 |
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ENV 682 Environmental Justice/Water Justice |
Torres M,W 10:30-11:50 |
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ENV 696 YFF:Tribal Forestry: |
Dunning | |||
ENV 761 Negotiating International Agreements: The Case of Climate Change |
Biniaz M 1:30-3:20 |
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ENV 816 Electric Utilities: an Industry in Transition |
Rhodes Th 1:00-3:50 |
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ENV 823 Energy Law and Policy (Follows Law School Calendar) |
Faculty Tentative |
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ENV 831 Urban Planning Strategies for Sustainable Development |
Salazar Miranda Th 1:00-3:50 |
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ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives |
Klee M,W 1:00-2:20 |
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ENV 854 Food Systems Transformation and Accelerating the Sustainable Development Goals in the Global South |
Omilola Th 2:30-5:20 |
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Knobloch Family Professor of Natural Resource Economics