{"id":6,"date":"2021-10-01T09:18:57","date_gmt":"2021-10-01T13:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre-draft\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T17:50:11","slug":"front","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/","title":{"rendered":"Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-hero-wrapper\"><div class=\"cl-hero super   cl-has-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-hero-proper\"><div class=\"overlay\"><div class=\"block\"><h1>It&#8217;s about finding the balance<\/h1><\/div><\/div><div id=\"3ba51a55-cad0-1959-2211-0963d8d031d2\" data-video=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/670309605\/5bbc6de101\" data-platform=\"vimeo\" class=\"poster\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/Wickford-harbor-still.jpg);\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls-container\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-controls\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-icon\" title=\"Accessibility controls\">Accessibility controls<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-motion-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Pause motion\">Pause motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">On<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Play motion\">Play motion<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Motion: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Off<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control cl-accessibility-contrast-control\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-default\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Increase text contrast\">Increase text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">Standard<\/span><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-alternate\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-button\" title=\"Reset text contrast\">Reset text contrast<\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-control-label\">Contrast: <span class=\"cl-accessibility-syntax\">High<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-system-setting\"><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle\" title=\"Apply my preferences site-wide\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-accessibility-toggle-label\">Apply site-wide<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How can we create a sustainable future that protects and responsibly utilizes our tropical rain forests, drinking water, clean air, biodiversity, sustainable fisheries, endangered species, and other natural assets while improving and maintaining standards of living? National and global environmental issues are one of the central challenges we face in the twenty-first century, and we need leaders who are able to listen carefully to all stakeholders, analyze and explain the economic costs and benefits, and help develop solutions that support economic and environmental goals. Environmental leadership is about balance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics offers an interdisciplinary curriculum with a variety of courses in the natural sciences and economics.&nbsp;Our faculty are experts in the field who are recognized for pioneering academic research and their contributions to the formulation of major regional, national and international policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/academics\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/Undergrad-card.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"A group of students touring an energy facility through the Energy Fellows Program\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Undergraduate Programs<\/h2><p>Our curriculum offers two pathways depending on your area of interest, a double degree in business, and an accelerated Bachelors to Masters (ABM) option.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Choose your path<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/academics\/#graduate_programs\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/Research-card.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Graduate Programs<\/h2><p>Learn more about the unique research opportunities you&#8217;ll find at URI working with faculty mentors and interdisciplinary teams on real-world issues.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Become an expert<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"cl-wrapper cl-card-wrapper\"><a class=\"cl-card  \" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/research\/\" title=\"\"><div class=\"cl-card-container media\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/Research-card-2.jpg\" srcset=\"\" alt=\"\"><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container text\"><div class=\"cl-card-text\"><h2>Research<\/h2><p>Learn more about the work we do in renewable energy, agriculture, fisheries and coastal resource management, water quality\u2013with a focus on conservation.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"cl-card-container button\">Make an impact<\/div><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-css-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 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href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/cels\/news\/class-comes-into-port\/\">Class Comes Into Port<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">On a field trip to the Port of Davisville, URI students saw the economics they study in class at work, from new cars and old trucks to offshore wind.<\/span><\/li><li class=\"listing-item\"><a class=\"image\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/from-environmental-economics-to-energy-solution\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/IMG_6432-copy-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/IMG_6432-copy-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/IMG_6432-copy-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2086\/IMG_6432-copy-364x364.jpg 364w, 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URI researchers surveying Rhode Islanders on local food supply and demand<\/a> <span class=\"excerpt-dash\">-<\/span> <span class=\"excerpt\">A new project led by Simona Trandafir, associate professor in URI\u2019s Department of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, will map how food moves through Rhode Island by tracing production and distribution networks from farms to buyers and linking them to where consumers shop.<\/span><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<a class=\"cl-button  block-level\" href=\"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/enre\/news\/\" title=\"\">see all news<\/a>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Events<\/h1>\n\n\n<div class=\"display-posts-listing\"><div class=\"listing-item\"><div class=\"content\">\n<div id=\"localist-widget-80108962\" class=\"localist-widget\"><\/div><script defer=\"\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/events.uri.edu\/widget\/view?schools=uri&amp;venues=coastal_institute&amp;groups=college_of_the_environment_and_life_sciences%2Cenvironmental_and_natural_resource_economics_department%2Cmetcalf_institute&amp;days=100&amp;num=5&amp;match=any&amp;container=localist-widget-80108962&amp;template=card\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can we create a sustainable future that protects and responsibly utilizes our tropical rain forests, drinking water, clean air, biodiversity, sustainable fisheries, endangered species, and other natural assets while improving and maintaining standards of living? 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