Monday, July 26, 2010

Suggest an Article for My Students

They'll only be my students for one guest lecture. They are students in a business masters who are taking an environmental economics class. The textbook for the class is undergrad level and a bit old (they cover the whole book in 3 weeks). I need an overview article about global trends in energy, pollution, climate change, biodiversity, the more the merrier over the last decade at least to supplement/update it. Lots of pretty charts would be great. Any suggestions?

2 comments:

  1. I can think of two articles in JEP 2009:

    Barrett, Scott 2009. "The Coming Global Climate-Technology Revolution." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(2): 53–75.

    Tol, Richard S. J. 2009. "The Economic Effects of Climate Change." Journal of Economic Perspectives, 23(2): 29–51.


    The references in these two articles would be helpful too.

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  2. Thanks Sriram. The course coordinator actually already has Barrett's article on the reading list. So it's not what I'm really looking for. When I last taught environmental economics I used a special issue of Scientific American from 2005 and of Science from 2003 to set the scene about global trends. Was wondering if there were any newer similar articles. I can easily find articles on individual trends. Looking for a state of the world one. Will check out the Tol paper.

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