Environmental Economics (I)
Department of Economics, National Taiwan University
2003 Fall

Course Instructor：劉錦添（Jin-Tan Liu）
Class Hours：Thursday 9:00 – 12:00 am
Office Hours：Friday, 2:00 - 4:30 pm
Office Room：Room 102, Dept. of Economics Building
Tel：23519641-520, or 281 鄭凱文或林泔薇 ( RA office )
E-mail：liujt@ntu.edu.tw
Topics
1. Externalities
2. Environmental Regulation and Informal Regulation
3. Welfare Economics
4. Benefit Estimation and Damage Assessment
5. Trade and Environment
Course Requirement
1. Midterm Exam（30%）
2. Final Exam（50%）
3. Oral Presentation（20%）
Web Sites
1. www.rff.org (Resources for the Future)
2. www.epa.gov/economics (U.S. EPA Economy and Environment)
3. www.worldbank.org/nipr (NIPR, Environmental Economics and Indicators)
4. www.nber.org (National Bureau of Economic Research)
5. www.oecd.org (OECD)
6. www.damagevaluation.com (Environmental Valuation & Cost Benefit website)
7. www.evri.ec.gc.ca (Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory)
8. www.msu.edu/course/prm/320 (Professor Eileen van Ravenswaay website)
9. www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ssc/labs/cameron (Professor Trudy Ann Cameron website)
10. http://ase.tufts.edu/gdae (Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University)
11. www.unfccc.de (Home page for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change).
12. http://wri.org/climate (World Resource Institute’s web site on climate and atmosphere).

Textbooks and References
• Baumol and Oates (1988), Theory of Environmental Policy, 2nd edition, New York:
Cambridge University Press.
• Braden, J.B. and C. D. Kolstad (1991), Measuring the Demand for Environmental
Improvement, North Holland.
• Callan and Thomas (1996), Environmental Economics and Management, Irwin.
• Cornes and Sandler (1986), The Theory of Externalities, Public Goods, and Club
Goods, New York: Cambridge University Press. (HB846.3. C67, 1986).
• Cummings, Brookshire and Schulze (ed.) (1986), Valuing Environmental Goods:
An Assessment of the Continge