References and Interesting Links

Blogs
Environmental Economics by John Whitehead and Tim Haab
Environmental and Urban Economics by Matthew E. Kahn
Environmental Economics and Policy by Duke Nicholas School of the Environment
The Economics- Environmental Policy
The New Economic Foundation (NEF) blog a UK based blog

Informative Websites
Climate Change
Ecosystem and Environmental Valuation
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - FEEM (Leading European environmental research group)
Invasive Species Information
Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
​Love Canal Tragedy
Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority

Sustainable Development Websites
Investment and Innovation in Clean Energies and Technologies
U.S-Mexican Border Program 2020
OECD Science, Technology and Industry Scoreboard
Rio Declaration on Environment and Development

Uncategorized News Articles and Research Papers
New Zealand company offers employees $10 a day to bike to work
    - The Guardian, March 2018

​Cape Town, South Africa is 90 days away from running out of water
    - TIME, January 2018

The danger in deregulation
    - The Brookings Institute, January 2018

CO2 emissions from coal feel by record amount in 2015, led by Texas and Midwest
    - US Energy Information Administration, November 2017

Germany strikes offshore wind deals, subsidy not included
    - New York Times, April 2017

​Dismantling the clean power program
    - ​Brookings Institute, April 2017

Rising water is swallowing up the Louisiana coastline
    - CBS morning news, January 2017

America's first 'clean coal' plant is now operational- and another is on the way
    - The Washington Post, January 2017

This interative map shows why renewables and natural gas are taking over the US
    - Vox, December 2016

​Opposition to Washington's historic carbon tax initiative is coming from the unlikeliest of sources
    - ThinkProgress, October 2016

Lionfish, non-native predator in Florida waters, 'Invade' Gainesville restaurants
    - Florida's 89.1 WUFT-FM, October 2016

​This simple graph reveals some very good news about air pollution
    - The Huffington Post, September 2016

​What ever happened to the hole in the ozone layer?
    - Seeker, September 2016

Why the EPA doesn't regulate ocean acidification
    - The Atlantic, September 2016

3 Reasons property rights are essential for healthy ecosystems
    - World Resource Institute, September 2016

​Alabama power agrees to shutter 3 coal-fired units, convert 4 others to natural gas
   - AL.com, April 2016
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​Cheetos and deforestation?
    - CNN Money, March 2016

Wind power transmission project in plains earns U.S. approval
    - New York Times, March 2016

U.S. energy industry emits more methane than thought: EPA Chief
    - Reuters, February 2016

EPA environment locator
    - EPA, November 2015

US tax payers to shell out for growing peanut pile
    - Reuters, November 2015

El Nino's summer break, wildfire smoke may have led to Colorado's record September
    - KUNC

2015 Might Have Seen the Hottest Summer in 4,000 Years
    - CNN

Wildlife is thriving around Chernobyl since people left
    - New Scientist, October 2015

​Beneath Alaskan Wildfires, A Hidden Threat: Long-Frozen Carbon's Thaw
    - NPR, July 2015

Scientists pull carbon nanofibers out of thin air
    - Popular Science, August 2015

Managing coal's decline
    - WyoFile, August 2015

Pollution flowing faster than facts in EPA spill (Animas River follow-up)
    - CNN, August 2015

Mine Waste Water Released into Upper Portions of the Animas River
    - San Juan Basin Health Department, August 2015

Clean Power Plan: is "the cost ... justified by the public health benefits alone"?
    - Env-Econ.net blog, August 2015

A triumph of the notion of passive use values (and jobs in the Atlantic?)
    - Env-Econ.net blog, January 2015

Verdict Overturned for Italian Geoscientists Convicted of Manslaughter
    - Science, November 2014

The Economics of Climate Enforcement 
    - The University of Chicago, February 2010

Depleting the Ground Water
    - 60 Minutes, November 2014

TCEQ Scientist Says the Smog Is Fine Because Texans Stay Indoors
    - Houston Press, October 2014

Texas’ Top Toxicologist: EPA’s New Smog Regulations Unnecessary, Just Stay Indoors
    - Climate Progress, October 2014

Texas’ Top Toxicologist: EPA’s New Smog Regulations Unnecessary, Just Stay IndoorsThe Land Grab Out West
    - NY Times, October 2014

European Union reaches landmark climate deal, agrees to cut emissions by 40 per cent by 2030
    - ABC, October 2014

Mike Rowe Defends Himself After Whooping Crane Show
    - CNN, October 2014

Stanford Biologist Warns of Early Stages of Earth's 6th Mass Extinction Event
    - July, 2014

Are We There Yet? Scientists Prepare for Change in Epoch
    - Reuters, October 2014

How Bad is the Lionfish Invasion? We're Now Trying to Train Sharks to Eat Them 
    - Vox, October 2014

I.S. = Invasive Species (Comparing ISIS to invasive species)
    - Thomas Friedman, October 2014

This is the Equation for Happiness 
    - Time, August 2014 (Relates to risk and uncertainty)

35,000 Walrus Come Ashore in Northern Alaska
    - Associated Press and MSN.com, October 2014

Shrinking/Loss of Aral Sea
    - NASA, September 2014

Ranchers Sue Feds over Access to Mouse Habitat
    - Washington Post, September 2014

Can Elephants Survive a Legal Ivory Trade? Debate Is Shifting Against It
    - National Geographic, August 2014

Study shows where on the planet new roads should and should not go
    - ScienceDaily, August 2014

How much are Yellowstone Grizzlies worth? 
    - WyoFile July 8th, 2014

Fighting (tasty) Invasive Fish with Forks and Knives
     - NPR August 17, 2014

Deposit-Refund System in Practice and Policy
    - Resources for the Future (RFF), November, 2011

Boston Harbor Project: an Environmental Success Story
    - Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 2009

Articles on the Economic Valuation
How much is a loon worth? 
    - Environmental Economics blog, July 2015

Arin, Rijen and Randall A. Kramer. "Divers' willingness to pay to visit marine sanctuaries: an exploratory study." Ocean & Coastal Management 45 (2002): 171-183. 

Boxall, P.C., et al. "Analysis of the economic benefits associated with the recovery of threatened marine mammal species in the Canadian St. Lawrence Estuary." Marine Policy 36 (2012): 189-197.    - Referenced in class (example of choice experiment implementation) 

Carr, Liam and R. Mendelsohn. "Valuing Coral Reefs: A Travel Cost Analysis of the Great Barrier Reef." Ambio 32.5 (2003): 353-357.
    - Referenced in class

Carson, Richard T., et al. "Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill." Environmental and Resource Economics 25 (2003): 257-286.
    - Example of CV design

King, Oliver H., "Estimating the value of marine resources: a marine recreation case." Ocean & Coastal Management 27.1-2 (129-141): 1995.
    - Figure 1 shows the components of economic value

Loomis, John B. and D.M. Larson. "Total Economic Values of Increasing Gray Whale Populations: Results from a Contingent Valuation Survey of Visitors and Households." Marine Resource Economics 9 (1994): 275-286. 

Lyssenko, Nikita and R. Martinez-Espineira. "Respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation: the case of whale conservation in Newfoundland and Labrador." Applied Economics 44.15 (2012): 1911-1930.

Mathieu, Laurence F., Ian H. Langford & Wendy Kenyon. “Valuing marine parks in a developing country: a case study of the Seychelles.” Environment and Development Economics 8 (2003): 373-390. 

Ressurreicao, Adriana, et al. "Economic valuation of species loss in the open sea." Ecological Economics 70 (2011): 729-739. 
    - Table 1 provides a link to other valuation surveys of marine species

Wallmo, Kristy & D.K. Lew. "Public willingness to pay for recovering and downlisting threatened and endangered marine species." Conservation Biology 26.5 (2012): 830-839.
    - Referenced in class (example of choice experiment implementation) 

Whitehead, John C. "Total economic values for Coastal and Marine Wildlife: Specification, Validity, and Valuation Issues." Marine Resource Economics 8 (1993): 119-132. 

Wilson, Clevo & Clem Tisdell. "Conservation and Economic Benefits of Wildlife-Based Marine Tourism: Sea Turtles and Whales as Case Studies." Human Dimensions of Wildlife: An International Journal.  

Articles on Climate Change
What will climate change look like in your neighborhood?
    - NOAA Climate Explorer app

​Securing rights, combating climate change
    - World Resource Institute 

NOAA challenged the global warming 'pause.' Now new research says the agency was right
    - The Washington Post, January 2017

​Spiralling global temperatures from 1850-2016
    - Ed Hawkins, October 2016

​World's largest solar plant goes online
    - EcoWatch, September 2016
    - Renewable energy

Wheat, one of the world's most important crops, is being threatened by climate change
​    - Washington Post, September 2016
    - Topic: Application of supply shock (supply/demand)

Climate change fueling extreme weather in Texas, groups say
    - San Antonio Express News, March 2016

​A look at six state proposals to carbon taxes
    - Env-econ.net blog

​Bloomberg Carbon Clock

Short answers to hard questions about climate change
    - NY Times, November 2015

​New report find human-caused climate change increased the severity of many extreme events in 2014
    - NOAA, November 2015

Deadly heat is forecast in Persian Gulf by 2100
    - NY Times, October 2015
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This conservative economist makes a case for a carbon tax
    - Grist.org, October 2015

If China can do it, Why not us?
    - Env-econ blog

A Year in the Life of Earth's CO2
    - NASA (Video)

It's Water Vapor, Not the CO2
    - American Chemical Society

NM Climate Change
    - New Mexico Earth Matters

Teaching about Climate Change with The New York Times
    - April 2014

Invest now or face 'irreversible' effects of climate change, U.N. panel warns
    - November 2014

Hydropower May Be Huge Source of Methane Emissions
    - October 2014

Economics students call for shakeup of the way their subject is taught
    - ENR Blog, May 2014

Don't teach climate change. It'll hurt the economy.
    - High Country News, May 2014

Wyoming blocks new science standard
    - Casper Star Tribue, March 2014

Leaked e-mails do not show climate scientists at their best
    - The Economist, November 2009

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