Environmental Policy Analysis Specialization

Students specializing in Environmental Policy Analysis frequently seek employment in a range of organizations spanning all areas of environmental management, including government agencies, international development institutions, non-governmental organizations, corporations, and consulting firms.

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 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 834 Environmental Economics and Policy		Conte		Faculty

Course 2

Choose one of these two courses.

Course	Fall 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 821 Environmental Policymaking: From Local to Global	Sanford M,W 1:00-2:20		Sanford Tentative
ENV 824 Environmental Law and Policy		Klee	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 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 617 Real World Environmental Data Science		Grewal
ENV 641 Market-Based Mechanisms for Water Management	Kruse Th 1:00-3:50
ENV 647 Climate Change, Economic Inequality, and Human Health	Park Tu,Th 1:00-2:20
ENV 728 Introduction to Statistics and Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences	Reuning-Scherer Tu,Th 2:30-3:50		Reuning-Scherer
ENV 753 Regression Modeling of Ecological and Environmental Data	Gregoire M,W 10:30-11:50		Gregoire
ENV 758 Multivariate Data Analysis in the Environmental Sciences		Reuning-Scherer		Reuning-Scherer
ENV 795 Nature as Capital: Merging Ecological and Economic Models				Fenichel
ENV 800 Energy Economics and Policy Analysis		Gillingham		Faculty
ENV 803 Green Markets: Voluntary and Information Based Approaches to Environmental Management			Kotchen
ENV 863 Sustainable Finance Policy & Regulation	De Arriba-Sellier M,W 1:00-2:20
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 2022	Spring 2023	Fall 2023	Spring 2024
ENV 588 Community Engagement & Coalition Building - A Practice-based Approach (Fall-1 Sept 12-Oct 17)	Stein M 5:30-8:20pm
ENV 727 Global Food Challenges		Wargo	Wargo
ENV 820 Land Use Law and Environmental Planning		Shansky		Shansky
ENV 823 Energy Law and Policy (Follows Law School Calendar)	Elliott Tu 2:10-4:00
ENV 840 Climate Change Policy and Perspectives	Klee M,W 2:30-3:50		Esty Tentative

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.