Learn how economists view and solve natural resource management challenges and explore ways to apply natural resource economics to your own conservation work. Our new self-paced course explores how economic thinking can help address natural resource use challenges, including the economic drivers of overuse and varying management strategies, especially for forests and fisheries.
With content adapted from our flagship Economics and Finance for Environmental Leadership course, this course combines lectures with readings, case studies, knowledge checks, and more to build capacity in fundamental economic theory and explore applications of economics to real-world natural resource management scenarios. CSF instructor and Assistant Professor of natural resource economics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Dr. Jennifer Raynor, guides you through each chapter.
This self-paced course takes roughly 7-9 hours to complete, with each chapter consisting of about 1-2 hours of substantive content. Stop and start at any time within your one year of access.
Chapters
- Time Decision-Making, and Property Rights
- Natural Resources as Capital Assets
- Renewable Resource Management - Forests
- Renewable Resource Management - Fisheries
- Applying Course Concepts (final exercise)
This course is open for registration on numbersfornature.org. Register at any time for one year of access.