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Memo Writing
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Civic Technology
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Natural Resources Policy
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Race and Public Policy
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GIS and Public Policy
Provides hands-on approach to ArcMAP software. Emphasizes the use of maps to describe spatial relationships and visualize geography-related statistical results. Examines combination of geographic and statistical analysis.
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Water Law and Policy
Examines how society allocates and safeguards freshwater resources. Explores how policy and law address leading water management challenges, including water scarcity, groundwater depletion, and freshwater ecosystem preservation.
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Economic Approaches to Environmental Management
Examines the economic tools relevant to natural resource and environmental management. Tools are developed in the context of a series of resource problems, with an eye towards building intuition useful for addressing complex policy problems that do not fit neatly…
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Taxes and Social Policy
Examines major areas of social policy that interact with the tax system.
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GIS and Public Policy
Focuses on use of geographic information systems in public policy analysis with particular attention to the tools widely used by social scientists, public policy scholars, urban planners, and environmental scientists.
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Energy Policy
Energy policy formulation and implementation with emphasis on post-1973 developments. Energy conservation programs; changing roles of oil, coal, gas, nuclear, and solar energy; institutional, environmental, and equity considerations; government research and development programs.