Andrew Muller's Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Page

This page was intended for students in Economics 2J3, Environmental Economics, Economics 3W3, Natural Resource Economics, and Economics 736, Natural Resource and Environmental Economics at McMaster University. Since I retired in June 2008 I have not been maintaing it regularly. Suggestions for improvement are welcome however and may be sent to mullera@mcmaster.ca.

General Sources of Information

• Electric Green Environmental Channel
  
• Alternatives Journal Home Page A wide ranging Canadian academic journal.
• Associations and Societies of Interest to Land and Natural Resource Economists
• Canada Info
• Canadian Society for Ecological Economics
• Canadian Natural Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group
• Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy
• Environment Canada's Home Page
• Environment Canada's Link Page is very extensive.
• Environment Canada's Pollution Data Branch contains links to databases for common air contaminants, greenhouse gases, national pollutant release inventory, emission forecasts and trends, and urban air quality trends.
• Environmental Studies E-Journals
• Environmental Studies Association of Canada (ESAC)
• The International Institute for Sustainable Development in Winnipeg.
• Ontario Ministry of Environment
• Ross McKitrick's Economic Performance and Environmental Quality Information Base

Textbooks

• Field, Barry C. and Nancy D. Olewiler (1994) Environmental Economics: First Canadian Edition. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. HC79.E5F54 1994. ISBN 0-07-551716-7. This text has been adopted for Economics 2J3 in Jan.-April, 1998.
• Hartwick, John and Nancy Olewiler (1998) The Economics of Natural Resource Use HC59.H3558 1997. Addison-Wesley Educational Publishers, Ltd.
• Tietenberg, Tom. Environmental and Natural Resource Economics. Fourth edition. HarperCollins HC79.E5T525 1996.

Regional Air Pollution

• The Ontario Ministry of the Environment's Home Page has links to Ontario's Smog Plan and information on Regional Air Quality.
• U.S. EPA Acid Rain Home Page includes links to information about emissions allowance trading for sulphur dioxide.

Emissions Trading

• Tom Tietenberg's Emission Trading Bibiliography
• GERT - Greenhouse Gas Emission Reduction Trading Pilot. Their link page lists a number of emission trading programs and other good stuff.
• Ontario's Pilot Emission Reduction Trading program
• Southern California's RECLAIM Program
  • South Coast Air Quality Management District Home Page
  • SCAQMD Reclaim Page
• US EPA SO2 Emissions Trading Program
• Cantor Fitzgerald Environmental Brokerage Services for Emissions Trading. See trading in action.

Climate Change

• The Kyoto Protocol [ pdf ]
• Canada's Second National Report on Climate Change (1997)
• Environment Canada's Climate Change site.
• Dead on Arrival . A multi-media rant on global warming.
• Global Change, Electronic Edition A source of information including the Global Climate Change Digest
• DELTA
• Greenpeace - Ozone Campaign
• Canada Country Study Prairies Report: Internet Conference
• The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Home Page
• Schwanen, Daniel Confronting the Greenhouse Challenge: Matching Protection with Risk. C.D. Howe Institute Commentary 99 (October 1997). ISBN 0-88806-419-5; $6.00.