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strategic and political implications of ongoing trends in global energy markets, particularly markets for crude oil and natural gas, world's major oil and natural gas producing regions (Middle East, the Caspian Region, Russia, Venezuela, and the North Sea), Producer-consumer relationships for China, India, Japan, and the US, foreign policy implications, especially with respect to China

• Economics of a Sustainable Society - economic fundamentals, sustainability as an ethic and as a policy standard, interrelationships between sustainability and factors such as income, poverty, educational attainment, empowerment of women and ethnic minorities, international trade, population growth and taxes, policy proposals, discounting, economic development assistance programs, methods for measuring progress, issues, case studies

• Environmental and Natural Resources Economics - normative foundations, supply and demand, property rights, externalities, natural resource economics, fisheries economics, benefit cost analysis, political economy, compliance and deterrence, incentive regulation, cap & trade, RPS, climate change

examines the general topic of climate change and asks are the scientific uncertainties surrounding Global Warming large enough to preclude developing mitigation policies?

basic definitions and concepts focusing on computation, basic principles of multidimensional spectra, examples (60 illustrations)

value systems, market allocation, externalities, natural resources, measurement & analysis of benefits & costs, political economy of environmental regulation & resource management, motivating regulatory compliance, policy experiments in incentive regulation, global warming (uncertainty, irreversibility, long-term policy making)

advanced introduction to concepts & principles underlying modern vector based geographic info systems, focusing on basic principles in topology, computational geometry, database management & IT: quizzes, online exam study guide

big bang & early solar system, earth structure, plate tectonic theory, ocean floor, plate reconstructions, volcanoes, minerals, rocks, seismology, driving forces of plate tectonics, sedimentary rocks, geological time, igneous & metamorphic rocks, mountain building, sea, currents, waves, tides, climates, coastal processes, fresh water, remote sensing, planets

research methods, general soils, soil resource inventory, soil geographic databases, landform modelling, soil (classification, survey), interpretation, land (evaluation, degradation), statistical software, spatial analysis & geostatistics

courses: earth science writing, surface & ground-water resources, hydrologic modeling, snow dynamics and accumulation, hydrothermal system in Yellowstone National Park, applied geological hydrology, controlled groundwater areas in Montana, mountains and plains riparian processes, Northern Rocky Mountain landscapes, electronic hydrology, hydrology of streams and lakes

• Natural Disasters - examination of the causes, effects, and options available to mitigate natural disasters, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, subsidence, flooding, severe weather, and meteorite impacts

• Earth Materials - fundamental background in minerals, basic principles behind arrangement of atoms to form crystal structures, how atoms coordinated and bonded and how this is reflected in external form, chemical composition and physical properties of crystalspetrology
• Petrology - fundamental background in rocks, necessary to understand the Earth, principles behind rock forming processes