此选项与如何制定，实施和质疑从地方到全球的环境政策，计划和法律有关。它强调解决环境问题的立法，法规和协作方法。政策是行动指南。它们可以是法律，法规，条约，协议，规定的惯例，专业标准，公司战略，操作程序和个人行为守则的形式。研究将集中于政策的形成方式，其实施，执行，评估和确认，拒绝或修订的方式。环境规划包括制定计划到实施。随着环境问题变得越来越复杂和迫切，对政府，宣传，商业，教育和法律方面的专业人员的需求也日益增长，从而使人们对政策过程的各个方面有了深刻的了解，并清楚地了解了生态系统与社会系统之间的相互依存
This option is concerned with how environmental policies, plans, and laws from the local to the global are created, implemented and contested. It emphasizes legislative, regulatory, and collaborative approaches to addressing environmental issues. Policies are guidelines for action. They can be in the form of laws, regulations, treaties, agreements, prescribed practices, professional standards, corporate strategies, operating procedures and personal codes of conduct. Studies will focus on how policies come to be, how they are implemented, enforced, evaluated, and affirmed, rejected or revised. Environmental planning encompasses plan formulation to implementation. As environmental problems grow more complex and urgent, the need has grownfor professionals in government, advocacy, business, education and the laws resulting in a sound understanding of the policy process in its many dimensions and a clear grasp of the interdependencies between ecological and social systems. Policy and planning approaches increasingly involve public-private collaborations of diverse actors and stakeholders who address the unique environmental, legal, social and cultural components of the resource systems to be managed.