Undergraduate students who have a strong interest in natural resource sciences, and in how the environment affects the economy, will find this to be a challenging and rewarding major. The Environmental Economics and Management (EEM) program is multidisciplinary, and prepares students to analyze rigorously problems of natural resource management by developing a broader understanding of the relationships between the processes of the physical and biological world, and of economic systems.

Government agencies, at the federal, state and local levels, are moving to implement ecosystem management as a foundation for setting policy and making environmental management decisions. In addition, most environmental policy assessments are now mandated to analyze the economic implications of those government decisions. Environmental managers are rapidly finding that environmental - or ecosystem - management problems are often driven by economic incentives. These factors suggest that environmental managers of the present and future will need an ever-increasing understanding of how economic factors may impact environmental management decisions and their effectiveness. Furthermore, private sector business, industry, and consulting will have an increasing demand for environmental specialists who understand both the natural sciences and the economy, particularly as the private sector faces new regulations on environmental quality.

Visit the links below for more detailed information regarding this major.

• EEM Course Checksheet and List of Supporting Electives
• EEM Advising Sheet

Interested students can also contact Dr. Cathy Roheim for additional information. We are located on the second floor of the Kingston Coastal Institute, just off Flagg Road on the North Side of Campus.

Dr. Cathy Roheim
Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics
1 Greenhouse Road
University of Rhode Island
Kingston, RI 02881 USA
Tel: (401) 874-2471
FAX: (401) 782-4766
E-mail: crw@uri.edu