GEO 350
ECONOMICS, RISK, POLLUTION

INSTRUCTIONAL LINKS

National Environmental Policy Act -- excerpt
Pollution calculator
Conventional economic analyses of resource use and pollution:
- The Economics of the Environment (a comprehensive treatise on the subject).
- EPA Economics and the Environment
- Enviro$en$e
- Environment, economics, and market forces (a backgrounder for journalists).
Sustainable and "green" ecnomics links:
- International Society of Ecological Economics (Herman Daly et al.)
- Implementation and environmental effectiveness of "green" taxes. (report from the European Environment Agency)
- Banneker Center for Economic Justice, Green Tax links
- Green Taxation and Environmental Policy (U. Toronto Environmental. Research and Teaching)
- Miscellaneous other organizations:
  - Earthshare
  - Gaian economics
Risk:
- Rachel Carson NY Times obituary
- Summary of the evidence and the examiner's report from the Wisconsin DDT hearings, 1968-1969
- Superfund, Love Canal, and the meaning of "clean"
- HERE is an article outlining the "phosphate wars" of the 60s and 70s.
- HERE is an article on lead in gasoline.
- EPA Office of pollution prevention, pesticides and toxics
- Risk assessment and FIFRA and Dinoseb
  - HERE is an executive summary of the NAS study into "pesticides in the diet on infants and children."
- Pesticide management and education FAQs
- Alar: the final disposition (from NDRC) [Also HERE]
- Pesticides in the diet of infants and children (NRC report)

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