The next step: what does an ecological or environmental economist do?
Perhaps a good place to pick up is where I left off in the last post. I left off where I had come to a realization about how I wanted to use my skills but still needed to learn what that looked like. At this point in my journey, I have come back from my trip to the Blue Mountains and have hit the ground running on a busy semester. Every semester I have a ritual where I go to the university library and borrow out my textbooks plus a heavy selection of other material in line with whatever piques my interest to read over the next 12 weeks. Eager to expand upon what captured my interests in the Blue Mountains, I was particularly interested in forests, geology, and water. My pile of books was so heavy I almost had to take it home in two loads. This ultra heavy pile included a book called "Wild Foresting" which was a collection of papers centered on forests. Its topics were broad but each was as interesting as the next. Some were academic papers detailing scienti...