Econ 8535: Environmental Economics I
Readings Available Online:
Web Sites deveopled by student in
the class
Henrike Rossbach: Disposal of high-level nuclear waste, created fall 2002
Jirapa Inthisang: Pesticide regulation in the U.S. and Thailand, created fall 2002
Aric Shafran, The Regulation of SO2 Emissions, created fall 2002.
James Lester, Livestock Grazing on Federal Lands, created fall 2002
Kyoshi Yonemoto, Mobile-Source Pollution, created fall 2002.
Web Sites that Dish Dirt on Polluters
Web Site Dishes Dirt on Major Polluters - NYT April 22, 1998
Chemical Scorecard This site is maintained by the Environmental Defense Fund. Use it to find out the amount of toxic pollutants in your neighborhood
Other Sites of General Interest
EPA (Environmental Proctection Agency)
The "Clean Air Act" as amended in 1990
Home page for Resources for the Future (RFF)
Home page for AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
Link to ENVIRO-ECONOMICS GATEWAY
Professor Kahn's webpage for his text, The Economic Approach to Environmental and Natural Resources. It has links to a lot of other sites.
Readings on Consumer Surplus and Economic
Welfare
Readings on NonMarket Valuation
E.R. Morey, Characteristics, Consumer Surplus and New Activities: A Proposed Ski Area Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 26 (2), March 1985, 221-236.
E.R. Morey, The Demand for Site-Specific Recreational Activities: A Characteristics Approach Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Vol. 8 (No. 4), December 1981, 245-271.
Edward R.Morey, William Breffle, and Pamela Greene, Two Nested Constant-Elasticity-of-Substitution Models of Recreational Participation and Site Choice: An "Alternatives" Model and an "Expenditures" Model American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Vol 83, Issue 2, pp 414-427, May 2001.
They Exist. Therefore They Are. But, Do You Care? NYT October 19, 1999
Pollings Dirty Little Secret: No Response, NYT November 21, 1999
Pollsters Enlist Psychologists in Quest for Unbiased Results: NYT September 7, 1993
Polls May Help the Government Decide the Worth of Nature: NYT September 7, 1993
Congress Asks, Is Nature Worth Morey than a Shopping Mall? NYT April 25, 1995
"The Burden of Faulty Science" a Mobil ad in Time Magazine April 17, 1999
E.R. Morey, Valuing and Preserving Site-Specific Cultural Resources in Italy: Some of the Issues Nov 7, 2001.
Modeling and Estimating WTP for Reduction in Acid Deposition Injuries to Cultural Resouces: Using Choice Experiments in a Group Setting to Estimate Passive Use Values, Morey, Rossmann, Chesnut and Ragland in .....If you are interested there is a second paper using this data (Using Stated-Preference Questions to Investigate Variation in Willingness to Pay for Preserving Marble Monuments: Classical Heterogeneity and Random Parameters June, 2002)
There are also more relevant papers on the page that lists my discussion papers
Readings on Global Warming (start
with Chapter 6 in Kahn, and the materials in Chapters 2 and 4 on discounting
and present value)
There are many articles out there about global warming. For the most recent ones in the NYTimes go to the NYTimes web site and seach under "global warming" or -"global warming" and economists-. The NYTimes has a whole archive on global warming. Do not limit the search to today's paper, and make sure you are searching the "site" rather than the site of one of their advertisers (e.g. Barnes and Noble)
Some of the interesting articles I found include
US Signs Pact to Reduce Gases tied to Warming - NYT Nov 13, 1998
How fast to cut back: two view - NYT Nov, 28 1997 - this article quotes economists
Who Cares About a Few Degrees - NYT Nov 27, 1997
Experts on Climate Change Ponder: How Urgent is It? -NTY September 9, 1997
Cushioning the Shock of Global Warming - NYT Nov 30,1997
Clinton and Global Warming: Struggling to Scare a Contented World - NYT September 28, 1997
Coal Nightmares, Electical Dreams - NYT Nov. 28, 1997
Additional Readings on Mobile Source
Pollution
Auto Emission Rules May be Toughened (NYT April 14, 99)
Auto Makers See Nothing but Trouble in Warmer World - NYT Oct. 16, 1997
Planting the Seeds for a Crop of Lean Green Machines - NYT March 15, 1998
U.S. Splurging On Energy After Falling of Diet - NYT Oct. 22, 1998
The Price is Right for Fuel Efficiency to Fall - NYT Oct 26, 1996
Uncle Sam vs Smog Monsters - Muscle Car Review, Feb/Mar 1996
Crackdown on Pollution by Vehicles -NYT May 2, 1999
There are many articles out there auto emissions. For the most recent ones in the NYTimes go to the NYTimes web site and seach under "auto emissions" or "emissions". Do not limit the search to today's paper, and make sure you are searching the "site" rather than the site of one of their advertisers (e.g. Barnes and Noble)
Additional Readings on Marketable
Permits
The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What have we learned -Tom Tietenberg
What is Conservation?
What is Conservation?: Herfindahl in Three Studies in Mineral Economics
The History of the Conservation Movement
For other recent articles on conservation the NYTimes go to the NYTimes web site and seach under "conservation". Do not limit the search to today's paper, and make sure you are searching the "site" rather than the site of one of their advertisers (e.g. Barnes and Noble). If you choose to purchase an article from the NYT Archives it will cost a couple of bucks, it will cost a couple of bucks, articles from today's paper can be downloaded for free.
"Gifford Pinchot" from Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Filmmakers study a man who studied the apes: NYT March 23, 1999
The Forest Service's New Deal: NYT Editorial Desk, February 16, 1999
Celebrating an Ecologist's Eloquence and Vision," NYT, October 19, 99
Searching for Eden; The Definition of Wilderness Is Increasingly Elusive," NYT, September 12, 99
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