ECO 346: Environmental and Resource Economics - HOMEPAGE
ECO 346 is an elective course in the Environmental Studies Minor. For more information on the Environmental Studies program go to Environmental Studies.
UPDATED FOR SPRING 2007
Classroom Presentations - Schedule with hyperlinks
Internet Sources May be some link-rot
Homework Problems
Homework #1 Due Tuesday, February 6
Homework #2 Due Tuesday, February 20
Homework #3 Due Tuesday, March 6
Study Guide for Mid-Term Exam on Thursday, March 8 [Posted Tuesday March 6]
Homework #4 with Hints Due Thursday April 5
Paper #1 (Due Thursday April 19) Paper #2 (Due Thursday May 3)
FINAL EXAM (100 points): Due on or before Friday, May 11, 12:00 p.m.
1. Environmental economics Rescuing environmentalism And Are you being served? Apr 21st 2005 The Economist
2. A Carbon Tax to Reduce the Deficit (Resources for the Future) with a link to the article (see pp. 19-22 of the report - print pp. 9-12 from the pdf file) http://www.rff.org/rff/RFF_Press/CustomBookPages/NewApproachesonEnergyandtheEnvironment/loader.cfm?url=/commonspot/security/getfile.cfm&PageID=15535
3. A link to "The Death of Environmentalism: Global Warming Politics in a Post-Environmental World," by Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus. It is not necessary to read this to answer the questions on the final. The is the essay the was referred to in the Economist article above. You might want to skim the Introduction and other parts. http://www.thebreakthrough.org/images/Death_of_Environmentalism.pdf
4. A link to "The EU Emissions Trading Directive: Opportunities and Potential Pitfalls, " by Joseph Kruger and William Pizer, April 2004. See especial section 3.5: Comparison of Enforcement and Compliance Features on pp. 17-26 (print pages 20-29). http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-DP-04-24.pdf
Some more recent articles from ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:
1. Tax on Carbon Emissions Gains Support Industry and Experts Promote It as Alternative to Help Curb Greenhouse Gases By Juliet Eilperin and Steven Mufson Washington Post Staff Writers Sunday, April 1, 2007; A05 As lawmakers on Capitol Hill push for a cap-and-trade system to rein in the nation's greenhouse gas emissions, an unlikely alternative has emerged from an ideologically diverse group of economists and industry leaders: a carbon tax.
2. Economix Earth’s Climate Needs the Help of Incentives By DAVID LEONHARDT New York Times March 28, 2007 Washington The politicians who deny that global warming is a problem used to be the biggest obstacle to a solution. They’re not anymore. They have lost the argument.
3. Climate change What price carbon? Mar 15th 2007 From The Economist print edition Britain and the EU have learnt from some green-policy mistakes, but not from others
4.
Climate change
The greening of America
Jan
25th 2007 From The Economist print edition
How America is likely to take
over leadership of the fight against climate change; and how it can get it right
AND
Green America
Waking up and catching up
Jan
25th 2007 | AUSTIN, CHICAGO, LOS ANGELES AND WASHINGTON, DC From The Economist
print edition
Belatedly, and for
many reasons, America is embracing environmentalism
Articles for question 6 on the Study Guide for Exam
CAA-2 by Richard Epstein, dean of U of Chicago Law School
CAA-3 from Environmental News Service
caa4 editorial from the New York Times
Link to RFF journal Resources. The Supreme Court rules that costs should not be considered when setting air quality standards.
Kyoto Protocol and Climate Change