全球环境和资源经济学专业是为那些在微观经济学和宏观经济学方面具有中级本科背景的IPED学生而设计的。它是专门为培训服务于公共服务的经济学家而设计的，他们将对当今日益一体化的世界中的环境问题和自然资源的经济作用具有全球性的认识和了解。为了确保您有坚实的经济基础来理解全球环境问题，您将采用国际经济政策，国际货币政策，经济发展政策和应用计量经济学。为了为您提供有关环境问题和资源经济学的强大背景知识，您将需要同时参加环境和资源经济学以及农业与发展和/或流行病与发展。由于其丰富的经济内容（经济学21学分，外加统计学
The Specialization in Global Environmental and Resource Economics is designed for IPED students who have an intermediate level undergraduate background in both microeconomics and macroeconomics. It is specifically designed to train economists for public service who will have a global appreciation and understanding of environmental issues and the economic role of natural resources in today's increasingly integrated world.To ensure that you have a strong economic foundation to understand global environmental issues you will take International Economic Policy, International Monetary Policy, Economic Development Policy and Applied Econometrics.To provide you with a strong background in environmental issues and resource economics you will be required to take Environmental and Resource Economics along with Agriculture & Development and/or Epidemics and Development. Because of its heavy economic content (21 credits of economics plus a statistics course, Applied Econometrics), anyone completing it will qualify for designation as an economist by the US federal government.