ecn371 - Environmental economics
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Case studies
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Some (interesting?) links (2017)
These links have been tested as of January 28, 2017. Please report any non-working or missing links to Eirik. Also, if you know of other interesting links that are relevant for this course, please send an e-mail to Eirik with the URL reference.
Official links of the Norwegian government
Climate issues
Ground water issues
Biodiversity and PES
The World Bank
FAO
OECD (excellent own search engine)
National Center for Environmental Economics (US EPA)
Academic links
Other links
Official links of the Norwegian government
Norwegian Ministy of Climate and Environment
Norwegian Ministry of Agriculture and Food
Statistics Norway (SSB)
Norwegian Environment Directorate
Climate issues
The Stern Report
(Wikipedia with link to whole report and executive summaries)
Norwegian Low Carbon Emissions Committee
(Lavutslippsutvalget)
Norwegian Ministry of the Environment -- About Climate Changes and the Environment
Oxford Review of Economic Policy (2008, vol. 24, no. 2) -- Special issue on climate change
CICERO -- Climate change
World Resources Institute: Climate
New Zealand's carbon emissions trading scheme
International climate data
(summaries and location specific)
Water issues
EU's water framework directive
deals with the development of standards and verifiable controls on water availability and quality.
Norwegian Environment Agency on: The EU water directive
(in Norwegian only)
Norwegian Environment's work on the water directive
Biodiversity and payment for environmental services (PES)
Links and publications on biodiversity and PES
TEBB: The Economy of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
Institutional and legal aspects of PES
The World Bank
Recent papers by the World Bank of relevance to Environmental and Resource Economics
The World Bank
"World Bank Country issues
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
Recent papers by the World Bank of relevance to Environmental and Resource Economics
FAO general
FAO's Agriculture and Development Division
.
FAO's Natural Resources and Environment Division
.
Academic links
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
Tom Tietenberg's home page
(lot of information on tradable permits in theory and practice).
Resources for the Future (RFF)
The Frisch Centre of Economic Research
IIASA
US Environmental Protection Agency Publications
BioDiversity Economics (TEEB)
Environmental Economics: Economists on Environmental and Natural Resources: News, Opinion, and Analysis
Related to agriculture
Choices - the outreach magazine of the American Agricultural Economics Association
EuroChoices - the outreach magazine of the European Association of Agricultural Economists
American Agricultural Economics Association
European Association of Agricultural Economists
Other links
NHO - Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise
World Watch Institute
Henry George Institute -- Test your economic intuition
Henry George Insitute has a somewhat particular perspective on economics, but couldn't it be fun to try something (very) different ...
Symposium on sustainability
(April 2008) University of Sydney.
Freakanomics
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