Part I. Introduction 1. Introduction to research tools in natural resouce and environmental economics Part II. Theoretical Tools 2. Dynamic analysis 3. Stochastic analysis : tools for environmental and resource economics modeling 4. Game theory : static and dynamic games Part III. Empirical and Experimental Tools 5. Introduction to economic valuation methods 6. The Hedonic method: value of statistical life, wage compensation, and property value compensation 7. Environmental valuation : the sum of specific damages approach 8. Economic estimation of non-linear continuous-time models of intertemporally optimizing agents 9. Computable general equilibrium models for the analysis of economy-environment interactions 10. Experimental methods and environmental and natural resource policy Part IV. Interdisciplinary Tools 11. Modeling the economics of ecosystem services at watershed scale : a spatial model of land use externalities and the regulating functions of wetlands 12. Geographical information systems models and spatial data analysis 13. Materials balance models 14. Industrial ecology : reflections of an environmental economist