Online Text and Notes in Environmental and Transport Economics

This is an attempt to make a freely reusable online textbook for Transportation Economics, aimed at "advanced undergraduate and graduate civil engineering, planning, business, and economics students, though the material may provide a useful review for practitioners". It presently includes fourteen content pages, each of which is meant to have content appropriate for a ninety-minute lecture. All the text and images can be copied, adapted and redistributed.

Archived site for a course exploring "the proper role of government in the regulation of the environment," centered on Kolstad's textbook Environmental Economics. It includes PDF format slides, lecture notes and selected assignments without solutions. The content is available under Creative Commons as part of MIT OpenCourseWare.

These detailed lecture notes and slides are from an Environmental Economics course at Queen Mary. There are nearly thirty files for download in PDF. Lecture topics include: Introduction, Origins and Prospects, The Origins of Mankind, Population Dynamics, AIDS in Africa, Malthus and His Contemporaries, Fisheries: The Tragedy of the Commons, Global Warming, Depletion of Stratospheric Ozone, Time Preference and Myopia, Nuclear Power and the UK Energy Policy, Neoclassical Analysis of Pollution Costs, Electricity from Renewables, Malthus: Essay on the Principle of Population, Coase: The Problem of Social Cost, Dasgupta: The Population Problem, Boserup: Conditions of Agricultural Growth, McEvedy: European Population History, McEvedy: Asian Population History, Detr: Climate Change and Its Impacts, IPCC WG1: The Third Assessment Report of Working Group I of the (IPCC), Pollution, and Nuclear Power.

These four pages give an overview of the problem of market failure and introduce some categories of instrument that governments can use to address the problem. The site also has case studies of the use of these instruments and is produced by the International Institute for Sustainable Development.

This short essay by an undergraduate examines the ways in which free trade can both hamper and promote environmental protection. It also contains links to related articles and websites on free trade and environment at About.com.