Applied Environmental Policy Analysis

Description from DukeHub

Environmental policy issues are questions about what governments should do to address environmental problems, e.g., pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change. We will explore ways to identify, examine and design policy solutions to problems like these and others with a focus on the global ecological crisis. With attention to global, domestic, and tribal developments, we will use an interdisciplinary and evidence-based approach to evaluate nature loss, sociocultural, economic, and political consequences, related policy problems, and potential remedies. This is the grad section of ENV 316. Grad students will complete additional assignments, such as a stakeholder mapping and analysis brief.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policy" and 3 more
• research methodsAI review: "evidence-based approach to evaluate nature loss"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policy"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

More in ENVIRON

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• Principles of Economics and the Environment ENVIRON 155
• Integrating Environmental Sciences and Policy ENVIRON 201
• United States Environmental Policy ENVIRON 212
• Climate, Science, and Society: The Long History of Anthropogenic Climate Change ENVIRON 299S
• Applied Environmental Policy Analysis ENVIRON 316

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