ecn275 - Natural resource and environmental economics

Some (interesting?) links (2024)

The "links page" is continuously updated as new and interesting matters turn up.

• 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
• Data sources
• 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
• CICERO -- Climate change
• World Resources Institute: Climate
• International climate data (summaries and location specific)
• Norwegian Environmental Agency - climate (in Norwegian only)

Water issues

• Norwegian Environment Agency: Adminstrative unit water policies (in Norwegian only)
• Norwegian Environment's work on the water directive (Vannportalen, in Norwegian only)

Biodiversity and payment for environmental services (PES)

• The Dasgupta report "Economics of biodiversity"
• TEEB: The Economy of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
• Institutional and legal aspects of PES
• Norwegian Environmental Agency - biodiversity/species/nature types (in Norwegian only)

The World Bank

• The World Bank
• World Bank Country issues
  

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)

• FAO general
• FAO's Agriculture and Development Division.
• FAO's Natural Resources and Environment Division.

Academic links

• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)
• African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE) (their Twitter (currently X) account)
• Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• Latin American Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• OECD Environment
• Resources for the Future (RFF)
• The Frisch Centre of Economic Research
• IIASA
• EU Europe Environment Agency
• US Environmental Protection Agency
• 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

Data sources

• Our world in data (global and country

Other links

• NHO - Confederation of Norwegian Enterprises
• Freakonomics

Last updated: 12.01.2024   Copyright © Eirik Romstad