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 12

Everything in reach

Course materials

Find the available lecture slides, readings, classwork, homework, and exam materials below. Material links open in a new tab. Weekly pages show how the materials fit together.

Lecture slides

Readings

Classwork

Homework

Exams

Group projectExplore any topic within Natural Resource Economics 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 1–7Markets, institutions, and timeBuild the microeconomic toolkit, compare resource institutions, and connect discounting, scarcity rent, and fairness to decisions across generations.→ 02Govern · Weeks 8–9Fishery dynamics and managementUse stock-growth and harvest graphs to connect biological dynamics, fishing incentives, and fisheries management, alongside the midterm.→ 03Value · Weeks 10–12Valuing NatureMeasure use and non-use values with stated and revealed preferences, then connect those values to benefit-cost decisions.→ 04Adapt · Weeks 12–16Risk, insurance, and resilienceConnect wildfire risk to insurance and resilience, compare mitigation costs with avoided losses, then apply the semester’s tools in the project synthesis.→

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