环境规划和政策专业为学生提供了用于以更可持续的方式指导城市发展和再开发的理论和方法的概述，从而在保护自然资源和增强生态系统服务的同时，促进了经济发展，促进了社会公平和公民参与计划过程。该专业向学生介绍环境管理的监管策略和基于市场的策略，探索环境政策的经济和系统定量分析，并提供选修课，探讨环境实践的离散主题。选修主题包括EIS开发，食品政策，能源规划，用于城市雨水管理的绿色基础设施以及水资源管理。
The Environmental Planning and Policy specialization provides students with an overview of the theory and methods used to guide urban development and redevelopment in a more sustainable manner, so as to conserve natural resources and enhance ecosystem services while providing for economic development and promoting social equity and civic engagement within the planning process. The specialization introduces students to both regulatory and market-based strategies of environmental management, explores economic and systematic quantitative analyses of environmental policy, and offers electives examining discrete topics of environmental practice. Elective topics include EIS development, food policy, energy planning, green infrastructure for urban stormwater management, and water resources management.