While studying Natural Resources Conservation, you’re developing the interdisciplinary skills to play an active role in protecting and managing the natural environment. You’re also learning to investigate how people can live in a more sustainable way from a perspective that considers environmental, economic, and social factors.
These skills will include:
- Developing an understanding of the conservation and management of renewable and non-renewable resources
- Understanding issues of developing and implementing plans in the context of sustainability goals, political realities, and diverse public opinion
- Planning techniques at landscape and local levels for both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
- Understanding and applying ecology and conservation biology
- Field data collection and sampling, data analysis, and study design
- Understanding research, theory, and principles of natural resources conservation
- Conservation and management practices for wildlife, fisheries, and forests
- Balancing social, economic, cultural, and aesthetic values in the context of natural resources conservation
- Technical skills in geographic information systems (GIS), geometrics, statistics, and remote sensing
- Using ecological data and decision science to inform policy and decision making for conserving biodiversity
- Understanding how policy influences and informs conservation and management decisions at local and global levels
