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

Syllabus

Classroom Presentations - Schedule with hyperlinks

Environmental News

Internet Sources    May be some link-rot

Addition Readings

Chapter Outlines

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