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Chapter 0: Math Review

                   More Math Review

                  Articles to Read

Chapter 1: What is Economics?

Chapter 2: When is a Market Socially Optimal?

Chapter 3: Welfare Economics?

Chapter 4: Negative Externalities and Policy 

Chapter 5: Pollution Control Under Heterogeneity 

Chapter 6: Property Rights and Political Economy 

Handout on criteria for policy instrument choice 

Chapter 7: Public Goods 

Chapter 7b: Public Goods (Part II)

Biodiversity and endangered species (powerpoint presentation)

Chapter 8: Technological Change and Pollution Control

Chapter 9: Valuation

Chapter 10: Natural Resource Economics

Chapter 11: Natural Resouces and Dynamic Systems

Chapter 12: Environment, Trade, and Development 

Chapter 13: Environmental Health Risks and Pesticides

Chapter 14: The Economics of Climate Change 

Chapter 14A: Climate Change Addendum

Chapter 15: Forestry Economics

Chapter 16:Surface Water Economics

Chapter 17: Irrigation Economics

Chapter 17A:Water Quality

Chapter 18: Pesticide Economics

Chapter 19: Biodiversity, Biotechnology, and Intellectual Property Rights

Chapter 20: Environmental Services

Chapter 20A: Environmental Services

Chapter 20C: Environmental Services

Chapter 20D: Environmental Services

Chapter 20E: Environmental Services

Chapter 21: Animal Waste

Chapter 22: On Economics, Ethics, Politics and the Environment

Chapter 22A:Economics and Ethics

Chapter 23:Energy and the Environment


Climate Change:

Kyoto

Montreal

Sustainable Development:

SD

SD1


Appendix:

(i) Irreversibility and Option Value


Other Links to Readings:

Environment and Development: Environmental Kuznets Curves
Global Public Goods and International Environmental Agreements: The Ozone Layer
Global Public Goods and International Environmental Agreements: Global Climate Change
Environment and Development: Defining and Measuring Sustainable Development