Discovering Realities and Choices

Community Economic Assessment looks at the actual economic basis of a community and gives insight into future trends and choices.

Overall Course Objectives

• Demonstrate how the integration of social, economic, and ecological interests can foster sustainable economic development.
  
  
• Integrate local knowledge and information to create action plans for building a healthy economy.
  

• Describe the connection of public lands to local economies in order to assist in shaping policy decisions on public lands.

• Gather information and demonstrate how to interpret economic data in order to build confidence in economic information.