Graduate Program - Natural Resource, Production, and Environmental Economics

ACE is a leading contributor to economic studies of bioenergy, carbon sequestration, water resource management and valuation, resource and habitat conservation, and voluntary environmental programs. Our proximity to some of the world’s most productive agricultural land as well as to the Mississippi River, the Great Lakes, and Chicago provides ready access to important field sites and enables us to be leading participants in environmental, natural resource, and agricultural policy development both nationally and regionally. Both theoretical and empirical research is emphasized using welfare economics, optimization techniques, GIS, panel data and spatial econometrics, treatment effect and discrete choice models. Programs in environmental and natural resource economics are coordinated with related programs in other units including the Department of Economics, Department of Finance, Environmental Council, Institute of Government and Public Affairs, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, and Department of Urban and Regional Planning. For further information, please see the program in Environmental and Resource Economics (pERE).

 

Faculty

Amy Ando Kathy Baylis John B. Braden Richard J. Brazee Nicholas Brozovic David S. Bullock Andrew Isserman Madhu Khanna Carl H. Nelson Hayri Önal Alex Winter-Nelson

Academics

Recommended Courses for Ph.D. Area of Specialization Description of courses listed below are available at http://courses.illinois.edu/cis/index.html.

At least two of: ACE 510, Adv Natural Resource Economics, 4 hours ACE 516, Environmental Economics, 4 hours ACE 530, Applied Production Economics, 4 hours

For more information about natural resource and environmental economics, please contact Dr. Madhu Khanna, 326 Mumford Hall, 1301 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3605, phone: (217) 333-5176, fax: (217) 333-5538, e-mail: khanna1@illinois.edu. For more information about production economics, please contact Dr. Carl H. Nelson, 326 Mumford Hall, 1301 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana, Illinois 61801-3605, phone: (217) 333-1822, fax: (217) 333-5538, e-mail: chnelson@illinois.edu.