Economics and Management Technical Option

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Economics and Management option graduate students pursue studies covering the whole spectrum of forest economics and management, e.g., stand-level optimization, business management, supply-demand modeling, integrated assessment, non-market valuation, sustainable development, welfare economics, community-based management, deforestation and development issues in the tropics, and public policy.

Given the breadth of these studies, a strong graduate program in forest resource management and economics requires strengths not only within FER but also in supporting economics, statistics, and operations research disciplines. NC State has quality programs in these areas and a tradition of research interaction that has led to the development of several co-major and minor options for graduate students. Resource policy expertise includes areas of public decision-making, non-industrial private forests, regulation of private forests, forest certification and sustainable forest management.

The Economics and Management techical option requires (1) one forest economics course; (2) two additional courses in forest economics or environmental economics and management; (3) one course in natural resource and forest policy; and (4) one quantitative methods or business course.

For examples, courses could be chosen from the following representative lists of course offerings.

Forest Economics:

FOR 519 Forest Economics

Environmental Economics and Management:

ECG 515 Environmental and Resource Policy
ECG 512 Law and Economics
ECG 521 Markets and Trade
EC/ARE 436 Environmental Economics
FOR 505 Forest Management
ENV 270 Resource and Environmental Economics (Duke University)

Natural Resources and Forest Policy:

FOR 772 Forest and Renewable Resource Policies on Public Lands
PA 550 Environmental Policy
ECG 515 Environmental and Resource Policy
PS 536 Global Environmental Policy
MDS 495M Environmental Policy and Law

Quantitative Methods (examples):

FOR 733 Advanced Forest Management Planning
FOR 554 Principles of Spatial Analysis
PRT 505 Quantitative Techniques for Recreation & Natural Resource Mngt.
PRT 562 Principles of Geographic Information Systems
ECG 561 Intermediate Econometrics
OR 501 Introduction to Operations Research
OR 502 Introduction to Systems Theory
OR 504 Introduction to Linear Programming
ST 733 Applied Spatial Statistics

Business Courses (examples):

BUS 520 Managerial Finance
BUS 522 Portfolio and Capital Market Theory
ACC 519 Integrated Accounting Practice

For More Information On This Technical Option, Contact:

Dr. Robert Abt
Phone: 919-515-7791
bob_abt@ncsu.edu

Dr. Erin Sills
Phone: 919-515-7784
erin_sills@ncsu.ed