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Environment News and
blogs: *WSJ: Take my emissions, please Global warming:
Vanity Fair Lexus Virtual Green Eco
Living Blogs and the BBC
Link to BBC
coverage of IPCC 4 |
Environmental Economics ECRU 3850
Spring 2007 Office
Hours (please check for weekly updates & adjustments) Calendar Topics Outline and I. Environmental Economics and Issues
*required are starred as in * 1. Global Warming: what to do and who should
do it? *F&F
on global warming pp. 438-50 Discussion question set #1 The 2006
Stern Review: *Exec
Summary *BBC story *At a glance *W. Nordhaus comments
on Stern Review (NBER WP #12741) Copenhagen
Consensus 2004 on Climate Change (see summary of the Cline paper + comments + his reply ). Economics of Climate Change
(RFF paper) 2. Future Generations and the poor: Ethical
and distributional issues Singer (2002) Chapter 1 and *Chapter 2 reading printing (smaller file) *RFF Discounting
benefits of Climate change mitigation pp. 6-14 Debates over
discount rates Heal N&M Chapter 2 smaller file The Coase theorem A Pigou Tax (user fees) Heal Chapter 1 3. Emissions Costs
and benefits: finding optimal emission levels F&F Chapters 5-11 Discussion
Question Set #2 Figure 3
Gains from Technical Change 4. Market Based
Pollution control strategies: emission charges vs. TDPs (aka cap and trade) F&F Chapters 12 & 13 5. International Environmental
Issues:
**F&F Chapters 19-21. Copenhagen
Consensus 2004 on Climate Change
(see Cline & Manne) LSE CEP No
nonsense Climate Change Policy 6. International
Environmental Treaties: Negotiations and Bargaining *S. Barrett (2004) Montreal vs. Kyoto: International
Cooperation Peter Singer “One
Atmosphere” Stavins (2005) Beyond Kyoto Kolstad and Bren (2003) Designing
International Agreements China Signs On Hanley et. al Chapter 7 Strategic Interaction McKibbin and Wilcoxen (2002) Climate
Change After Kyoto 7. Science of Climate
change: anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions W. Ruddimen (2005)
How did Humans first alter Climate? Scientific American IPCC Website Uncertainty
Guidance Climate Change Impacts IPCC 2007
Summary 8. Climate Change presentations and readings from IPCC
May report: *McKibbin&Wilcoxen (2002) Climate
Change After Kyoto *Stavins
(2005) Beyond Kyoto *S. Barrett (2004) Montreal vs. Kyoto: International
Cooperation Barrett
(2007) The 2006
Stern Review: Part IV pages 14-16 IPCC (2007a)
or Alley, Richard. et al. “Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science
Basis.” 2-5-07. Pp 8-10. IPCC (2007b)
Badger, Neil. et al. “Climate Change 2007: Climate Change Impacts,
Adaptation, and Vulnerability.” 4-6-07.Pp. 7-10 and 17-18. IPCC May Report
computes cost of Climate Fix (Wash Post) Friedman
Video The Power of Green and “Power of Green” (article) Apanah,
Clive Sea Level Increase Diedre
Gouley “Montreal vs. Kyoto” Ryan McFarland “Australia and
California” California CC plan M. Colletti “Extreme Weather” Netherlands Ramparts Cassandra Bodytko “Species Loss” NYT (2007) Carbon Currency (10 NE states plan to cap
CO2) LA Times UN Climate Plan Called
Unrealistic WP (2007 IPCC Panel
Computes Cost to Fix Global Warming NY
Going Green (Bloomberg plan) McKinsey Cost of CO2
abatement html
version Required Text (make sure
yours has the 4th edition cover shown at right): Field, Barry and Martha Field (2005) Environmental
Economics 4th ed. Online resources: working
with graphs web
links Projects Web Page Recommended (some required reading): (UP: University Press) Singer, Peter (2002) One
World: the Ethics of Globalization, Yale UP (paper). Heal, Geoffrey (2000) Nature
and the Marketplace: Capturing the Value of Ecosystem Services, Island Press, Hanley, Shogren & White (2001)
Introduction to Environmental Economics, (HSW) World Bank, World Development
Report 2003: Sustainable Development in a Dynamic World [cited as WDR03]
World Bank, Oxford UP |
Class
Materials: Quiz 4 Review
Sheet Version 2 with essays !! as promised
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