Spring 2020
- As the semester progresses, a link to each lecture will be added to this page. The link will include a summary of the main points from that day’s lecture.
Introduction
Lecture #1 — 1/13/2020 — What is Environmental Economics?
Tools of Economic Analysis
Lecture #2 — 1/15/2020 — Market Failures
Lecture #3 — 1/22/2020 — Modeling Pollution
Government Intervention in Environmental Policy
Lecture #4 — 1/27/2020 — Modeling Pollution/The Coase Theorem
Lecture #5 — 1/29/2020 — Command and Control Policies
Lecture #6 — 2/3/2020 — Command and Control/Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #7 — 2/5/2020 — Taxes & Subsidies
Lecture #8 — 2/10/2020 — Transferable Discharge Permits
Lecture #9 — 2/12/2020 — Permit Trading Examples
Permit trading slides from class
Lecture #10 — 2/17/2020 — Policy Instrument Choice: Theory
Lecture #11 — 2/19/2020 — Policy Instrument Choice: Water
Lecture #12 — 2/24/2020 — Water Policy/Environmental Federalism
Lecture #13 — 2/26/2020 — Behavioral Economics and Energy Efficiency
Lecture #14 — 3/2/2020 — Behavioral Economics & Energy Efficiency
Valuing Environmental Benefits and Costs
Lecture #15 — 3/4/2020 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Revealed Preference Approaches
Lecture #16 — 3/9/2020 — Valuing Environmental Benefits: Stated Preference Approaches
Lecture #17 — 3/11/2020 — Estimating Benefits
Lecture #18 — 3/23/2020 — Estimating Costs/Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lecture #19 — 3/25/2020 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Lecture #20 — 3/30/2020 — Benefit-Cost Analysis
Energy and Water Resources
Lecture #21 — 4/1/2020 — Energy Pricing/Alternative Energy Technologies
Lecture #22 — 4/6/2020 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Energy technology slides: part 1
Lecture #23 (part 1) — 4/8/2020 — Alternative Energy Technologies
Energy technology slides: part 2
Lecture #23 (part 2) — 4/8/2020 — Water as a Scarce Resource
The Environment in Developing Countries
Lecture #24 — 4/13/2020 — Growth and the Environment
Lecture #25 — 4/15/2020 — Environmental Issues in Developing and Emerging Economies
International Environmental Policies
Lecture #26 — 4/20/2020 — Policies to Promote Environmental Protection in Developing Countries
Lecture #27 — 4/22/2020 — International Trade Agreements
Political Economy
Lecture #28 — 4/27/2020 — The Political Economy of Environmental Policy