Problem Based Learning

Externalities and Non-Renewable Resources - References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use, indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Report by the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (http://www.millenniumassessment.org/en/index.aspx)
• Two-thirds of world's resources 'used up' - from the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,1447863,00.html)
• UN Millennium Development Goals (http://www.developmentgoals.org/)
• Global warming threatens work of top aid and environment charities says new report - from the New Economics Foundation (http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/news_upinsmoke.aspx)
• New Economics Foundation (http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/)
• Institute of Economic Affairs - a free-market think tank (http://www.iea.org.uk/issue.jsp?ID=5)
• Biome site with evaluated Internet resources (http://agrifor.ac.uk/browse/cabi/1385903ca88b0cda5b5a51fc14a39ace.html)
• Combating environmental degradation - International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) (http://www.ifad.org/events/past/hunger/envir.html)
• Land and environmental degradation and desertification in Africa - United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) (http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/X5318E/x5318e00.htm)
• Explanations of economic growth - Biz/ed's Virtual Developing Country (http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/dc/copper/theory/th5.htm)
• Basic notes on economic growth - from Biz/ed (http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/economics/growth/gdp/notes.htm)
• PowerPoint Presentation on externalities - from Biz/ed [151 KB] (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/economics/marketfail/presentation/externalities.ppt)
• Introduction to Welfare Economics - by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel (http://www.zmag.org/books/1/1.htm)
• Welfare economics and public choice - by Timothy Besley, London School of Economics [PDF, 130 KB] (http://econ.lse.ac.uk/staff/tbesley/papers/welfpub.pdf)
• Summary of Climate Change 2001: The Scientific Basis - by the Working Group of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/005.htm)
• Solutions to Fight CO2 Pollution and Stop Climate Change - from the World Wildlife Fund (http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/climate_change/solutions/index.cfm)
• Series of publications on climate change research - from the Met Office (http://www.metoffice.com/research/hadleycentre/pubs/brochures/)
• Solutions to global warming - from Greenpeace (http://www.greenpeace.org/international/campaigns/climate-change/solutions)
• Climate change reports - from the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/climate-change)
• What is a Market Economy? - from the US Department of State (http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/market/)
• An Austrian Theory of Environmental Economics - from the Ludwig von Mises Institute (http://www.mises.org/story/1760)
• A short summary of the Coase theorem - from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coase_Theorem)
• The Problem of Social Cost - the Coase theorem in more detail [PDF, 63 KB] (http://www.sfu.ca/~allen/CoaseJLE1960.pdf)
• Climate change: menace or myth? - from the New Scientist (http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524861.400)
• Alternative views of climate changesceptics - from Minnesotans for an Energy-Efficient Economy (http://www.me3.org/issues/climate/alternative.html)
• UN Kyoto Protocol (http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/convkp/kpeng.html)
• Finance for Carbon Solutions - United Nations Environment Programme [PDF, 1.3 MB] (http://www.unepfi.org/fileadmin/documents/CEO_briefing_finance_for_carbon_solutions_2004.pdf)
• Are Tradable Emissions Permits a GoodIdea? by Ian W.H. Parry, Resources for the Future [PDF, 155 KB] (http://www.rff.org/Documents/RFF-IB-02-33.pdf)
• Tradeable Permits - University of East Anglia [PDF, 98 KB] (http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/all/teaching/envecon/rtlectures/polnho2.pdf)

Textbooks

• Grundtvig, E. (1973) The Economics of Property Rights, Ballinger
• Barzel, Y. (1997) Economic Analysis of Property Rights, Second Edition, Cambridge University Press
• Gowland, P. & Paterson, A. (1993) Microeconomic Analysis (Chapter 12), Hemel Hempstead, Harvester Wheatsheaf
• Tullock, G., Seldon, A. & Brady, G.L. (2002) Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice (Chapter 11), Washington, Cato Institute
• Wilkinson, M. (1993) Equity and Efficiency (Studies in the UK Economy) Oxford, Heinemann Educational