Environmental Economics (II)

Department of Economics, National Taiwan University Spring 2014

Course Instructor：劉錦添（Jin-Tan Liu）
Class Hours：Wednesday 2:20 - 5:10 pm
Office Hours：Thursday, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Office Room：Room 102, Dept. of Economics Building
Tel：23519641-520 (office), or 281 (助理室)
E-mail：liujt@ntu.edu.tw

Topics :
1. Environmental Pollution and Economic Gowoth
2.. Environmental Regulation and Informal Regulation
3. Benefit Estimation and Damage Assessment
4. Trade and Environment

Course Requirement:
1.Midterm Exam（30%）
2.Final Exam（50%）
3.Oral Presentation and Homework（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).
13. http:// www.env-econ.net (Environmental Economics)
14. http://www.rfe.org (Economists on the Internet
15: http://marginalrevolution.org (marginal revolution).
16: http://www.voxeu.org (Vox Eu)



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 (2004), Environmental E