Readings:GradingDepartment of Agricultural and Resource Economics EEP 101/ECON 125University of California at Berkeley David ZilbermanOutline for Environmental Economics (EEP 101 /ECON 125 ) CourseLocation: 101 Morgan, Tuesday & Thursday 3:30-5:00 p.m.Professors: David Zilberman , 337 Giannini Hall. Office Hours: Thurs., 2:30-3:30 p.m.G.S.I.'s: Biswo Poudel (email: [email protected]), 314 Giannini Hall.Rui Huang (email: huang @are.berkeley.edu), 310 Giannini Hall.Course website: http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/spring07NOTE: Use http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/spring06 until January 23rd!!!Readings:There is no required textbook. The detailed course notes on the course website serve as required text for the course (available at http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/spring07). Therewill also be a course reader.For supplementary readings, we recommend the following textbooks (on reserve in the Moffitt library): Tietenberg, Tom, Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Fifth Edition, Reading, Massachusetts: Addison Wesley Longman, Inc., 2000.Carlson, Gerald A., David Zilberman, and John A. Miranowski, Agricultural and Environmental Resource Economics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.The course reader contains some extracts of these books that are particularly useful.Online TextDetailed text and lecture summaries are available at http://are.berkeley.edu/~zilber/EEP101/spring07 The detailed notes and lecture summaries will be modified to reflect the revised content of the class.Course OutlineLecture 1: IntroductionLecture 2: When Is a Market Socially Optimal? Production and Consumption ExternalitiesLectures 3-4: Market Failure and Policy Instruments: Standards, Taxes and SubsidiesLecture 5: An Economic Model of Positive ExternalitiesLecture 6: The Coase Theorem and Liability RulesLecture 7: Externalities and the Selection of Policy Tools: Other ConsiderationsLectures 8-9: Production Externalities and Technology Adoption Lecture 10-11: Public Goods Lecture 12-13: Valuation of Environmental Benefits Lectures 14: Environmental and Health RisksLectures 15: Endangered Species, National Parks, and Conservation and TargetingLecture 16-17: Dynamic Aspects of Environmental PoliciesLecture 18: MIDTERMLecture 19: Waste ManagementLectures 20-21: Water Allocation and Quality PoliciesLecture 22: Pesticide EconomicsLecture 23: BiotechnologyLectures 24-26: International Environmental Issues: Global Climate Change, BiodiversityLecture 27-28: Environment and Development; Concepts of Sustainable DevelopmentLecture 29: Environmental JusticeLecture 30: ReviewGrading30% midterm, 50% final, and 20% homework.Students may opt to submit a paper. In this case grading is 66% classwork (the above) and 34% for the
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