This course aims to develop skills to enable students to carry out research projects, which integrate environmental and economic aspects of sustainability. Through lectures, group work, and hands-on computer sessions, the class will familiarize students with some extensively used quantitative tools for analyzing human-environment interactions. By the end of the semester you should have some understanding of a number of currently used approaches, software packages and tools for analysis within the fast-growing field of Ecological Economics. On successful completion of the class you will have demonstrated the ability to apply and critically discuss a number of the widely used tools in the sustainability discourse. In particular, these are: index number calculations and decomposition analysis (I=PAT), the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC), environmental input-output analysis, systems dynamics, and multi-criteria decision aid (MCDA).