University of Delaware -- Disaster and Public Policy Concentration
within the Ph.D. in Environmental and Energy Policy

The University of Delaware is offering a Disaster and Public Policy
Concentration within the Ph.D. in Environmental and Energy Policy
supported by the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy (CEEP) and
administered by the School of Urban Affairs and Public Policy. Students
must complete 21-credit hours: six credits of advanced theory, six
credits of methodological course work, a six-credit social science
requirement, and three credits in science, engineering and public
policy. In addition, students in the Ph.D./EEP normally take 15 credits
of concentration or specialization electives and enroll for 9 credits of
doctoral dissertation. All Ph.D./EEP students must successfully pass a
Qualifying Examination administered at the end of the first year of
doctoral study.

1.  Advanced Theory

> The required first-year three-credit seminars in advanced theory:
>
> UAPP/POSC 821 Technology, Environment and Society
>
> POSC/UAPP 867 International Perspectives on Energy and Environmental
> Policy

2.  Social Science Requirement. Students may select two courses from the
    following list:

> (Note: Not all courses on the list are offered annually)
>
> ECON 667 Energy Economics
>
> ECON 862 Economics of Regulation
>
> FREC 667 Economics and Environmental Management
>
> GEOG 622 Resources, Development and the Environment
>
> GEO 630 Conservation of Forest Ecosystems
>
> GEOG 649 Environment and Society
>
> GEOG 655 Water Budget in Environmental Analysis
>
> GEO 820 Environmental Research
>
> MAST 667 Environmental Values, Beliefs and Policy
>
> MAST 670 Introduction to Marine Policy
>
> MAST 671 Coastal Processes and Management
>
> MMAST/ECON 672 Applied Policy Analysis
>
> MAST/ECON 675 Economics of Natural Resources
>
> MAST/ECON 676 Environmental Economics
>
> MAST 677 Ocean Law & Policy
>
> MAST/UAPP 679 Shipping and Port Management
>
> POSC 656 Politics and Disaster
>
> POSC/SOCI 667 Political Economy of Disaster
>
> POSC/UAPP/MAST 867 Issues in International Environmental Policy
>
> POSC/SOCI 867 Disaster Policy and Emergency Management
>
> POSC/UAPP/MAST 868 Research in Environmental Policy
>
> POSC/UAPP/SOCI 870 Readings in Environmental Policy
>
> SOCI 667 Environmental Sociology
>
> SOCI/POSC 866 Issues in Disaster Research
>
> SOCI/POSC 867 Social Science Perspectives on Risk
>
> SOCI 868 Approaches to Disaster Research
>
> SOCI/POSC 870 Readings in Disaster Research
>
> UAPP 626 Conservation & Renewable Energy Policy
>
> UAPP/GEOG 628 Issues in Land Use and Environmental Planning
>
> UAPP/PHIL 647 Environmental Ethics
>
> UAPP 666 Topics in Energy Policy
>
> UAPP 666 Topics in Political Economy of Energy & Environment
>
> UAPP 666 Topics in Sustainable Development
>
> UAPP667 Comparative Environmental Politics
>
> UAPP/POSC 867 Electricity Policy and Planning
>
> UAPP 868 Research in Energy Policy
>
> UAPP 868 Researching the Political Economy of Energy & Environment
>
> UAPP 868 Research in Sustainable Development
>
> UAPP 870 Readings in Energy Policy
>
> UAP/PHIL 870 Readings in Environmental Ethics
>
> UAPP 870 Readings in the Political Economy of Energy & Environment
>
> UAPP 870 Readings in Sustainable Development

3.  Methods Requirement

> Six credits to be selected from the following list of three-credit
> courses:
>
> ECON 801 Microeconomic Theory
>
> FREC 682 Spatial Analysis of Natural Resources
>
> GEOG 672 Seminar in Geographic Information Systems
>
> MAST/GEOG 681 Remote Sensing of Environment
>
> ORES 801 Operations Research Principles
>
> POSC 801 Research Design for Political and Policy Sciences
>
> SOCI 614 Data Analysis
>
> UAPP/POSC 801 Processes of Social Inquiry
>
> UAPP/POSC 816 Advanced Social Statistics
>
> For individual with strong backgrounds in economics, the following
> three-credit methods courses may be added to the above list for
> selection:
>
> ECON 823 Seminar in Econometrics
>
> ECON 877 Advanced Cost-Benefit Analysis
>
> ECON 894 Applied Regional Modeling

4.  Science, Engineering and Public Policy Requirement

> Selecting three of the following one-credit courses may satisfy
> three-credit requirement:
>
> AGEG 667 Environmental Issues in Agriculture and Society
>
> BIOG 667 Issues in Biology and Society
>
> CHEM 667 Chemistry and Environmental Issues
>
> MAST 873 Marine Policy Seminar
>
> MEEG 667 Emergency and Environmental Issues in Engineering
>
> Or students may substitute a three-credit graduate course in a natural
> science or engineer related topic to meet the science, engineering and
> public policy requirement. Examples include (but are not limited to):
>
> CHEG 622 Risks, Hazards and the Environment
>
> CIEG 631 Water Quality and Pollution Control
>
> CIEG 667 Hazardous Waste Management
>
> MEEG 634 Air Pollution Processes

5.  Qualifying Examination

> Qualifying Examinations in Theory, Methodology and Policy Analysis
> will be conducted in June and also during the Winter Term. Students
> who have completed all first-year required courses take the next
> available Qualifying Examination.

6.  Concentration or Specialization

> Students take 15 credits in their area of concentration or
> specialization, including the three-credit Doctoral Research Paper
> (UAPP 863).
>
> Disasters and Public Policy
>
> Energy Policy
>
> Environmental Policy
>
> Political Economy of Energy and Environment
>
> Sustainable Development

7.  Doctoral Dissertation

> Second year students register for 9 credits of UAPP 969 Doctoral
> Dissertation in compliance with University requirements and policies.
> The Ph.D./EEP degree is awarded upon successful defense of the
> dissertation before a four-faculty member committee.
>
> For more information:
>
> Contact: Professor Havidan Rodriguez
>
> Disaster Research Center
>
> 77 E. Main Street, Room 106
>
> Newark, DE 19716
>
> Phone: (302) 831-6618
>
> Fax: (302) 831-2091
>
> Email: <drc-mail@udel.edu>