Web resources
General environmental economics information:
Background on topics we will cover in class:
- Solid
Waste:
- Tradeable
permit programs:
- SO2
Allowance Trading:
- Clear
Skies Initiative (Bush administration proposal to replace much of
current Clean Air Act with tradeable pollution permits)
- Carbon trading
- Evaluating
benefits of environmental policies
- U.S.
Clean Air Act:
- Criteria Air
Pollutants Information on their harms, sources, and trends.
- New
source review. The Bush Administration made important changes to this
component of the implementation of the Clean Air Act.:
- Climate
Change:
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
A UN Agency that tries to summarize consensus on the science and
social science of climate change. Received the Nobel Peace Prize this year (along with Gore).
- climateprediction.net
Help resolve scientific uncertainty! This British project runs
climate simulations on your computer when your CPU is not occupied (along
the lines of SETI). You'll get information on the simulation your
computer has performed and on climate modeling more generally.
- Climate Change coverage from the BBC
- Kyoto
Protocol
- Some
economists views on the way forward: (you will need to be on campus
or authenticated through RU Libraries to access these):
- Regional
Greenhouse Gas Initiative. A proposed Northeast states
greenhouse gas cap-and-trade
The local environment: