Econ 234 will be offered again during the 1998-99 year. In the mean time, if you are interested in learning more about environmental economics, you can check out what we did during Spring 1998 and follow these links to resources that supplement the course topics:
Static Market Efficiency |
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| Online Economics Textbooks | Heterodox Economics at Communications for a Sustainable Future |
| This site contains 3 online interactive textbooks for studying and reviewing principles of economics. Easy to read and containing many good examples. | Many papers, sites, archives, and correspondences via list serve relating economic theory to sustainability, anthropocentrism, deep ecology, Post-Keynesian thought, etc. |
What do you Value? |
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| Rachel Carson and Silent Spring | Paper: "Using Envisioning to Design a Sustainable and Desirable World in the Presence of Irreducible Uncertainty" |
| Articles, stories and excerpts about Rachel Carson's campaign against pesticides: why and how she wrote Silent Spring. | |
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Ethics Web Site |
Explores appropriate changes in government policy according to visions of the future, given their varying sustainability and vast uncertainty. His four different visions involve the success and failure, measured according to given value systems, of achieving sustainability through either technological or community and social development. |
| Describes environmental philosophies and philosophers through history and in the present environmental movement. Includes conservationism, preservationism, deep ecology, social ecology and ecofeminism. | |
| Environmental History: course at KSU | Ecofeminist Visions Emerging (EVE) |
| This syllabus includes online access to essays by many natural history writers, including Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Annie Dillard, Edward Abbey, and Wendell Berry. | Contains essays, discussions, links from this organization that explores the many connections between the patriarchy's domination of women and of nature. |
Dynamic Efficiency and Sustainability |
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| EPA: Sustainable Ecosystems and Communities | Communications for a Sustainable Future |
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Program of computer networking started by CU economics professor that uses the "communications revolution" to promote world wide cooperation in the creation of economically and environmentally sustainable systems. Check out Sustainable Resources on the Internet, CoHousing, Permaculture, Sustainable Economics. |
| C learinghouse on Eco-Efficiency for Business(CIEN) | Earth Pledge Foundation |
| Theory, research, and techniques for managing sustainable businesses. | This site contains the Division for Sustainable Media, an organization which explores the role of the internet in sustainable development by both doing damage and fostering communication and cooperation. |
Market Failures |
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| EXMOD: Environmental Externalities Model | Natural Resource Use in Native American Economies:Course at University of Nevada, Reno |
| As described on site: "EXMOD is a computer model for calculating the externalities associated with electric power supply alternatives." | Syllabus from a course which examines common-property management and other aspects of the Native American economies of hunting, fishing, and agriculture. |
| "The Tragedy
of the Commons," Garrett Hardin, Science, 162(1968):1243-1248. |
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| This famous article explains the market failures that can result from open-access resources, using the example of early American commons for sheep grazing. | |
Government Intervention |
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| EPA Economy and Environment Home Page | Green Plan Center at the Resource Renewal Institute |
| Reports on environmental economics research at the EPA, including cost-benefit analysis, economic incentives for pollution control, impact analysis, etc. | A green plan is a comprehensive environmental policy based on a Dutch example. |
| EPA Office of Research & Development | "Community Federalism: General Agreement on a New Economy" by the Economics Working Group |
| Programs of risk assessment and risk management; technology transfer publications including newest strategies for pollution prevention and monitoring, ecosystem restoration. | Outlines an idea called community federalism, a new model for building sustainable and equitable communities through working relationships both within communities and between levels of government local, state and federal. |
| Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) | Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources |
| Source for local and regional environmental info: updates, actions, state and local government programs, getting involved in local issues. | Site details state programs for conservation and recreation use of state parks, forests, rivers, Rails to Trails parks, and other wild resources. |
| Environmental Programs, Plans, and Strategies | World Bank: Environmental Economics and Indicators |
| List of and links to environmental papers and reports from government agencies. | Details international WB programs that focus on indicators of sustainability, measures of environmental stress and risk, expanded measures of wealth, applications of these findings, and more. |
Pollution Control in General |
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| Centre for Economic and Social Studies for the Environment | |
| Belgian organization with info on research projects on many environmental issues, especially air pollution, mobility, emissions trading. |
Smokestacks |
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| The Santa Barbara County Air Pollution Control District | Southwest Center for Environmental Research and Policy |
| This local government agency handles all stationary-source air pollution in its region, due to a California state law which dictates local responsibility. | Consortium of US and Mexican universities to research pollution problems and solutions in the US-Mexican border region. |
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| National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program: Tracking and Analysis Framework | EPA's Acid Rain Program Home Page |
| Report on NAPAP's models for analyzing acid rain damage and prevention, through frameworks which integrate scientific, environmental and policy goals. | EPA program to reduce emissions of chemicals which cause acid rain, through regulation, market incentives, energy efficiency. |
| Greenpeace Atmosphere Home Page | |
| Greenpeace campaigns and other international reports on climate change, ozone depletion. | |
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| EPA Transportation Air Quality Center | Northeast Sustainable Energy Association |
| TRAQ services include air quality regulation and transportation planning with strategies based on market incentives, and other innovations still in development. | NESEA is a nonprofit to promote sustainable energy alternatives through conservation, efficiency, and use of renewable resources. Their programs include festivals, workshops, the annual Tour de Sol solar car race, and other educational programs. |
| Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network Home Page in the US Department of Energy | Renewable Energy |
| Info and news on US DOE programs to develop energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies for industry, building, transportation and more. | This is an individual's home page and contains solar cars and races, renewable energy, and whistleblowing. |
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| Chesapeake Bay Program: Chesapeake Information Management System | Water quality in the EU |
| The Chesapeake Bay is polluted from many sources, including agricultural nutrient runoff and industrial wastes. This site explains pollution sources, effects on the Ecosystem, and clean-up strategies, with reports, slide shows, scientific data, more. For other useful links concerning water pollution and the Bay, see Partners page. | Info, news and reports from the European Commission which handles issues of water pollution across national boundaries through regulatory approaches including emissions and effluent standards and the idea of Best Available Techniques. |
Toxic Waste |
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| Health, Environment & Work: University of Edinburgh | Occupational Safety and Health Administration Home Page |
| This site contains online teaching resources and tutorials on toxic waste, pollution, and workplace safety and health, and it details relevant Univ. of Edinburgh academic programs and degrees. | OSHA is a government agency to improve workplace safety and health, to eliminate hazards and exposure to toxins, and to develop a workplace culture of cooperation between workers and employers to increase safety and health. |
| Greenpeace Toxics Page | |
| Greenpeace's campaigns, reports, and news on hazardous waste disposal, the Basel Convention, toxic chemicals in the environment and in consumer goods, and more. | |
Environmental Justice |
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EcoJustice Network Environmental justice information including actions, news, reports, articles, maps, directories of organizations, networking among community groups, many links, and more. |
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Population Growth |
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| Brain Food | Project on the Environment, Population and Security |
| Scroll down to the section of this site entitled "Food, Land, Water and Population" to find a variety of papers and essays about the problems of population growth. | Research Project at the University of Toronto to examine the connections and causations between ecological marginalization of groups of people, environmental scarcities, population growth and migration, and violent conflict. |
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| The EU Eco-label Home Page | Recycling Laws International |
| Europe's plan for sustainable consumption based on Life-Cycle Assessment. | Publication accessible online about international recycling issues. |
Fossil Fuels |
| E & P Environment |
| This online publication reports on environmental issues in the oil and gas industry. The site includes many useful petroleum and environmental links as well. |
Water Scarcity |
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| Water in the City | Edwards Aquifer Research and Data Center |
| This site explains the water systems of Philadelphia and why they are so vital to the survival of the city. | This center in southwest Texas models surface and groundwater levels due to the Edwards Aquifer, monitoring for drought conditions. The aquifer supplies water for municipal, industrial and agricultural use in the region, and it provides an ecosystem for many endangered species. Site also contains extensive other links. |
Agriculture |
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| ATTRA presents: Introduction to Permaculture: Concepts and Resources | Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) of North America |
| Explanation of permaculture, which is a "land use and community planning philosophy" used to create sustainable systems of harmonious interaction between humans and their environments, and is especially applied to agriculture and agroforestry. | CSA farms strengthen local, small farm economies, ties between producers and consumers of food, and sustainable use of the land, in urban and rural areas alike. Site includes explanation of CSA farming and lists of CSA farms throughout the US and Canada. |
| Philadelphia
Green Home Page Philadelphia Urban Agriculture |
Community Alliance with Family Farmers |
| Philadelphia has a long history of community gardens through which residents continue to redevelop and restore city lands, while feeding their families. | This organization works in the sustainable agriculture movement in California to develop local economies based on small-scale firms devoted to land stewardship and social justice. |
Forests |
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| Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry Home Page | The Northeast Pennsylvania Community Forestry Program |
| Information on management of state parks and forests, state programs for conservation of private lands, local forest pests and common tree species, local biodiversity and more. | Program to develop community management of forest resources in both rural and urban areas. |
| Greenpeace Forests Home Page | |
| Greenpeace Campaign to end the destruction of our planet's forests: site includes facts, solutions, maps, action alerts, photographs. | |
Fisheries |
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| Greenpeace report on fishing in New England | Pesca Info |
| Overfishing in NE: failure of economic models. Need new models that incorporate ecology: web of linkages between organisms in environment. | Organization and newsletter about European fisheries and policies. |
Coping with Poverty |
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| The World Bank | |
| Includes World Development Indicators, Development Economics, Poverty Reduction. | |
Sustainable Development |
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| The Environment Department of the World Bank | The Future of Tropical Rainforest Peoples |
| Contains reports on research in many areas of environment, for example: Natural Habitats, Pollution Management, Social Policy and Resettlement. | Indigenous peoples must be considered in sustainable development as a resource to be consulted and protected. |
| International Institute for Sustainable Development | Sustainable Development & Economics Website |
| News, web research resource, reports about: history of sustainable development, issues in business, environmental management, wide range of sustainable development issues. | Website created by students in Tom Tietenberg's advanced environmental economics course, containing students' summaries of case studies in sustainable development, bibliographies, links. |
| United Nations Development Program | Sustainable Building Sources |
| The UN's development program works to relieve poverty and environmental degradation by developing human resources, political systems and market economies. Their programs include Sustainable Livelihoods which develops policies that address social and ecological issues together. | The Sustainable Building Sourcebook explains how to build systems in homes for water, energy, and solid waste, and the building materials and construction techniques to use. Site contains descriptions, guidelines, professionals to consult, and bookstore. Also contains great links from home page. |
| Urban and Regional Affairs: The International Journal of Sustainable Development | Center for Sustainable Communities |
| Journal available online where you can read articles about sustainable development and community-based natural resource management, for example. | Site teaches the ideas behind sustainable communities and how to plan them through a library, tutorials, case studies, and contacts to people currently making them real. |
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