Environmental policy includes the study of economics, law, politics, and implementation of environmental policies in the U.S. and abroad leading toward an understanding and exploration of the intersection governmental policy and public implementation and all the ramifications of these areas on the natural world. Areas of interest often include climate change, clean energy, and manufacturing and chemical regulations and can also incorporate policies related to poverty and justice. We welcome our doctoral students to participate in our Environmental Policy Seminar Speaker Series—a supportive, intellectual setting for sharing your perspectives, research ideas, and preliminary findings.
- Environmental Economics (V625)
- Environmental Law (V645) or International Environmental Law (B783)
- Domestic Environmental Policy (V710) or International Environmental Policy (V710)
Work with faculty involved in interdisciplinary research areas in environmental policy and science
Featured faculty focused on environmental policy
Notable alumni placements
Gwen Arnold, Ph.D.'12
Assistant Professor, U.C. Davis College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Department of Environmental Science and Policy
Meet Gwen Arnold
Aseem Prakash, Ph.D.'97
Professor of Political Science, Walker Family Professor for the Arts and Sciences, Department of Political Science, University of Washington
Meet Aseem Prakash
Rachel Krause, Ph.D.'11
Associate Professor, University of Kansas, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, School of Public Affairs and Administration
Meet Rachel KrauseEnvironmentally related dissertations
- Understanding Alternative Energy Realignments: A Transdisciplinary Methodological Approach, Jessica Alcorn, 2016
- Three Essays on Decision-Making in Energy Policy, Zachary Wendling, 2016
- State Clean Energy Policies & Stakeholder Involvement: How Stakeholders Affect Policy Implementation, Elizabeth Baldwin, 2015
- Trees, Communities, and Equity: Nonprofit Tree Planting and the Coproduction of Urban Forests, Shannon Lea Watkins, 2015
- Assessing wetland assessment: Understanding state bureaucratic use and adoption of rapid wetland assessment tools, Gwen Arnold, 2012
- Indigenous Group Sovereignty and Participatory Authority in International Natural Resource Management Regimes, Shane Day, 2012
- Scaling up from the top down and the bottom up: The impacts and governance of inter-community forest associations in Durango, Mexico, Gustavo García López, 2012
- Understanding robustness to distubance through the theory of the commons: Irrigation water governance and socio-ecological robustness in the Gallego and Cinca River Watersheds, Spain, Sergio Villamayor-Tomas, 2012