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Book
Hanley, Nick, Ben White, and Jason F. Shogren. Introduction to Environmental Economics. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780199568734. First or third edition may also be used (ISBN: 0198775954 or ISBN: 9780198737230).
Introduction, background
@ Fullerton, Don and Stavins, Robert, 1998. "How economists see the environment." Nature, 395(6701), 433-434.
@ Berck, Peter, Moe-Lange, Jacob, Stevens, Andrew and Villas-Boas, Sofia, 2016. "Measuring Consumer Responses to a Bottled Water Tax Policy." American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 98(4), 981-996
Climate change I
@ US Environmental Protection Agency, 2016. "Climate Change Indicators in the United States 2016. Fourth edition.", EPA 430-R-16-004.
@ Watts, Jonathan, 2018, We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN. The Guardian, London, UK.
Pollution
@ Sandel, Michael J. 1997. “It’s Immoral to Buy the Right to Pollute (With Replies),” from the New York Times and reprinted in Economics of the Environment, R. N. Stavins (ed.), 2005.
@ Jordan, Erin, 2018, 'Dead zone' worsens troubles for Louisiana shrimpers. The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
@ Waldman, Scott, 2016, High levels of PFOA found in dumps in Hoosick Falls, Petersburgh. Politico.
@ Newkirk II, Vann R., 2018, Trump's EPA Concludes Environmental Racism Is Real. The Atlantic.
@ Broder, John M., 2009, From a Theory to a Consensus on Emissions. The New York Times, New York, NY.
@ Schmalensee, Richard and Stavins, Robert N., 2013. "The SO2 Allowance Trading System: The Ironic History of a Grand Policy Experiment." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 27(1), 103-122.
Cost benefit analysis and valuation
@ Arrow, Kenneth J., Cropper, Maureen L., Eads, George C., Hahn, Robert W., Lave, Lester B. et al., 1996. "Is There a Role for Benefit-Cost Analysis in Environmental, Health, and Safety Regulation?" Science, 272(5259), 221-222.
@ Kelman, Steven, 1981. "Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique." AEI Journal on Government and Society Regulation, January/February 1981, 33-40. Plus replies by James DeLong and Robert Solow and Butters, Calfee, and Ippolito.
@ Rhodes, R.J., Whitehead, J.C., Smith, T.I.J., Denson, M.R., 2018. A benefit-cost analysis of a red drum stock enhancement program in South Carolina. Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 9(2), 323-341.
Risk and harm
@ Engle, Robert, 2014, "A Financial Approach to Environmental Risk." Resources Magazine. Resources for the Future. Sep 10, 2014.
@ Sunstein, Cass R., 2005. "The Precautionary Principle as a Basis for Decision Making." Economists' Voice, 2(2), 1-9.
Cropper, Maureen. 2009. “Measuring the Costs of Air Pollution and Health in China.” Resources, 173, 19-21.
@ EPA. 2011. “Regulatory Impact Analysis for the Final Mercury and Air Toxics Standards,” Executive Summary.
Trade
@ Wallach, Lori. 2015. “WTO Orders Sanctions Unless U.S. Cuts Consumer Labels, Disproving Obama TPP Claims.” Huffington Post, the Blog. 12/08/2015.
@ Ives, Mike. 2014. “Slowly, Asia’s Factories Begin to Turn Green.” New York Times Jan. 7, 2014. (day 1)
@ Smith, Noah. 2014. “The Dark Side of Globalization: Why Seattle’s 1999 Protesters Were Right.” The Atlantic Jan 6, 2014. (day 1)
Growth, development, and sustainability
Summers, Lawrence. Excerpt from World Bank memo 1991, plus New York Times articles. @ Daly, Herman, 2005, "Economics In A Full World." Scientific American, pp. 100-107. (with Dasgupta 1-page response included)
@ UNU-IHDP and UNEP, 2014. Inclusive Wealth Report 2014. Measuring progress toward sustainability. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
@ Robinson, Warren C., 2013, "Population and Sustainability." Resources. Resources for the Future.
Nonrenewable resources
@ Planet Money. 2014. “A Bet, Five Metals, and the Future of the Planet.” January 8, 2014. NPR.
Climate change II
@ Aldy, Joseph E., Krupnick, Alan J., Newell, Richard G., Parry, Ian W. H. and Pizer, William A., 2010. "Designing Climate Mitigation Policy." Journal of Economic Literature, 48(4), 903-934.
@ Darmstadter, Joel, 2015. “Commentary: Adaptation: An Essential, but Lagging, Part of Global Warming Policy.” Resources Sept 23, 2015.
@ Aldy, Joseph E. and Stavins, Robert N., 2012. "Using the Market to Address Climate Change: Insights from Theory & Experience." Daedalus, 141(2), 45-60.
@ Samuelson, R.J., 2019, Why I'm (slightly) less pessimistic about global warming. The Washington Post, Washington, DC.
Additional reading
Course responsible will add 3 documents during the semester. These will be uploaded in Canvas.