Economics and the Environment

I: SOCIAL COORDINATION, THE ECONOMY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

1. Introduction

2. Scarcity and systems of social coordination

3. Social coordination in market and planned economies

4. The economy and the environment

II: LIMITATIONS OF MARKET SIGNALLING AND INCENTIVES

5. High costs of markets

6. Non-excludable goods

7. Common pool resources

8. Limitations of government signalling and incentives

III: DECISION-MAKING TOOLS

9. Decision making over time

10. Cost-benefit analysis of environmental changes

11. Valuing the environment

12. Stated preference valuation techniques

13. Monitoring changes in economic-environmental systems (available online)

IV: LOCALISED ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS

14. The economics of pollution control: two parties

15. The economics of pollution control: many parties

16. Social coordination in waste disposal and recycling (available online)