After taking Advanced Placement (AP) environmental science in high school — and loving it — Emma Aucker, now a senior environmental and resource economics (ENRE) major at the University of Delaware, ...

In the globalized age, the intersection of business and environmental policy is crucial to our collective future. To address complex issues, such as climate change and resource depletion, we need to ...

Environmental and natural resource economics deals with the economics of pollution control, policies and economic incentives for dealing with pollution and the basic economic principles for the ...

This image is part of an animation of ocean surface currents from June 2005 to December 2007 from NASA satellites. This part shows the North Atlantic currents. Credits: NASA/SVS This image is part of ...

Herman Daly wrote the forward to my new book "The Progress Illusion" (Island Press, 2022). We also co-authored a workbook in ecological economics, also published by Island Press. Herman Daly had a ...

The transition from coal-dependent economies to ones driven by sustainable energy sources presents a global challenge in balancing climate action, energy access, and economic development. The “just ...

EUGENE, Ore. (KTVZ) — Wildfire smoke costs Oregon households $450 per day as they try to adapt by purchasing air purifiers, canceling trips and keeping children at home to minimize their exposure, ...

Human health and the natural environment are indivisible. A recent article in the journal The Lancet reminds us that “economic decisions on the environment have major impacts on human health, and ...

Three of the many projects currently up for consideration by TRPA are similar in that they are touted as providing improvement for the local economy in spite of causing significant negative impacts on ...

Explore whether economics can be considered a science, analyzing its classification, testability, and consensus within social science debates.

George S. Tolley, the noted economist who led groundbreaking research on resource use, farm labor migration, urban economics, and environmental economics, died Aug. 31 at the age of 95. A professor ...