As a major in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics (ENRE), you will acquire tools that can help answer these questions. This major integrates the natural sciences with economics to help us understand why many of earth's natural resources are under threat and how we can design policies to address these threats. Students will learn to weigh options and make important decisions concerning the protection, restoration, development, and use of our natural resources. The major prepares students for graduate school or for careers in the public and private sector that address environmental and natural resource management, business, or public policy. Professionals in these fields play an important role in coordinating interdisciplinary teams to address such complex problems. Graduates gain an understanding of both natural sciences and the economy.<br><br>The department offers two curriculum options or pathways within the major, a double major between ENRE and College of Business (Green Business), and an accelerated Bachelor-Masters (ABM) program. The two curriculum options under the ENRE major are: Green Markets and Sustainability (GMS) and Environmental Economics and Management (EEM).<br><br>Undergraduate students who have a strong interest in natural resource sciences, and in how the environment affects the economy, will find this to be a challenging and rewarding major. The Environmental Economics and Management option is multidisciplinary, and prepares students to analyze rigorously problems of natural resource management by developing a broader understanding of the relationships between the processes of the physical and biological world, and of economic systems.