ECON 341 · Fall 2026 · SUNY Geneseo

What should we take—and what should we leave?

Learn how economists value, allocate, and govern natural resources when choices made today reshape the possibilities available tomorrow.

Start with Week 4 Homework 1 · Due Sep 23, 9:30 AM

Everything in reach

Open the right field station.

Weekly pages tell you what to focus on. These collections keep every published course item easy to find.

Lecture slidesModels, graphs, cases, and visual explanations from class. ClassworkPractice, games, and simulations for learning the mechanisms by doing. HomeworkProblem sets and case analysis. Submit completed work in Brightspace. Group projectFind a fishery, forest, aquifer, landscape, or risk system for the group project. Semester mapSee the week-by-week course path, topics, readings, and major dates. SyllabusCourse policies, outcomes, readings, assessment, and full schedule.

Dates to keep in view

Plan around the turning points.

First course meeting
Quiz
Midterm exam
Final exam · 8:30 AM
The course arc

Follow the stock. Read the incentives. Test the rule.

Every unit returns to the same problem: a valuable resource changes through time, people respond to incentives, and institutions shape the outcome.

01Frame · Weeks 1–6Markets, scarcity, and timeBuild a self-contained microeconomics toolkit, then use dynamic efficiency and scarcity rent to allocate depletable stocks.→
02Value · Weeks 7–8 · Coming soonWhat nature contributesMeasure use and non-use values with stated and revealed preferences, then connect those values to benefit-cost decisions.
03Govern · Weeks 9–11 · Coming soonRenewable resources and commonsAnalyze fisheries, forests, and land as biological and spatial systems shaped by access, property, and collective rules.
04Adapt · Weeks 12–16 · Coming soonRisk, resilience, and sustainabilityStudy wildfire, insurance, and disaster resilience before bringing the semester’s tools to a resource under pressure.
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