Location: 22 Warren Hall, Tuesdays & Thursdays, 9:30-11:00 a.m.
Professor: David Zilberman, 337 Giannini Hall.
Office Hours: Thurs., 3:30-5 p.m.
G.S.I.'s:
Anna Gueorguieva: anna@are.berkeley.edu
Yanhong Jin: jin@are.berkeley.edu
Aaron Swoboda: swoboda@are.berkeley.edu
Class website http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/
Textbooks
Tietenberg, Tom. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Fifth Edition, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2000.
Hartwick, J., and N. Olewiler. The Economics of Natural Resource Use. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
Carlson, Gerald A., David Zilberman, and John A. Miranowski. Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
The detailed notes and lecture summaries will be modified to reflect the revised content of the class.
Lecture 2: When Is a Market Socially Optimal?
Lectures 3-4: Production and Consumption Externalities
Lecture 5: An Economic Model of Positive Externalities
Lecture 6: Coase Theorm and Liability Roles
Lecture 7: Externalities and the Selection of Policy Tools: Other Considerations
Lectures 8-9: Production Externalities and Technology Adoption
Lectures 12-13: Public Goods
Lectures 14-15: Endangered Species, National Parks, and Conservation and Targeting
Lectures 16-17: Valuation of Environmental Benefits
Lecture 18: Key Terms and Components of Dynamic Systems
Lectures 19-20: Dynamic Aspects of Environmental Policies
Lectures 21 -23: Water Allocation and Quality Policies
Lecture 24: Pesticide Economics
Lecture 25: Biotechnology
Lectures 26-27: International Environmental Issues
Lecture 28: Environment and Development
Lecture 29: Review
Grading
50% final, 30% midterm, and 20% homework.
Students may opt to submit a paper. In this case grading is 66% classwork
and 34% for the paper.