Online Text and Notes in Environmental and Transport Economics

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.

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.

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.