IDEC8004: SUSTAINABILITY & ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS  /  Summer Research Scholarship project

Links and notes for students currently taking my Master's course at the Crawford School of Economics and Government, Australian National University, in Semester 2, 2009 / and for potential students interested in my ANU Summer Research Scholarship project

by Dr Jack Pezzey, Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU (email me at jack.pezzey AT anu.edu.au for the username and password to access the links below)

Last updated: 12 November 2009

Back to Jack Pezzey's Home Page or ANU's Master of Environmental and Resource Economics                

 

LINKS TO MATERIALS WRITTEN FOR THIS COURSE (dates in brackets are when the file was added to this website. but the file may have been written before this date)

The first documents are not fully relevant to the 2009 course, and are for general guidance only:

Draft textbook (without Figures) as at Dec 2008, 7/7/09

Figures for draft textbook as at Dec 2008, 7/7

2008 Mid-term exam, 7/7

Answers & notes for answers to 2008 Mid-term exam, 7/7

2008 Final exam, 7/7

Notes on answers to 2008 Final exam, 7/7

Material that is fully relevant to the 2009 course:

Official course outline, 7/7

Initial questionnaire, 20/7

General notes on Exercises, 22/7

Exercise 1, 22/7

My course outline, 23/7 (this supersedes the Official outline if the two disagree)

Notes for Lectures 1-3, 24/7

Exercise 8, 24/7

Answers to Exercise 1, 4/8

Exercise 2, and template for Question 6 in it, 4/8

Brief lecture note, 7/8

Answers to Exercise 2, (Q5(b) revised on 27/8) and spreadsheet for Question 6 in it, 12/8

Exercise 3, 12/8

Answers to Exercise 3, 19/8

Exercise 4, 19/8

Answers to Exercise 4, 26/8

Exercise 5, and spreadsheet for it, 26/8

Answers to Exercise 5, and spreadsheet for them, 2/9

Note on Mid-Term and Course Review, 7/9

Key points of Chapters 2-5, 7/9

Bits of advice for mid-term exam, 10/9

Exercise 6, and spreadsheet for it, 11/9

Mid-term exam, 11/9

Answers to Exercise 6, and spreadsheet for them, 23/9

Answers & notes for answers to 2009 Mid-term exam, 23/9

Exercise 7, spreadsheet for Q1, and spreadsheet for Q2, 29/9

Timetable, 12/10

Answers to Exercise 7, spreadsheet for answer to Q1, and spreadsheet for answer to Q2, 14/10

Exercise 9, and spreadsheet for it, 21/10

Figures up to Fig 10.9, 23/10 (missing Figure 8.1 which is new)

Answer to Exercise 9, 30/10, and spreadsheet for it, 28/10

Final course questionnaire, 28/10

Corrections, up to 30/10

DRAFT TEXTBOOK, 30/10

Note on final exam, 30/10

Note on answering exam essay questions, 30/10

Final course review, 30/10

Final exam paper with notes for marking, 12/11

OTHER TEXTBOOK HANDOUTS NOT LISTED ABOVE (TBH = to be handed out)

Aghion & Howitt (1998), Ch 1, Appendix (on optimal control techniques), 12/8

Aghion & Howitt (2009), Intro chapter, 25/9

J02, Chs 1, 2 and Appendices A-C, 12/8

J02, Ch 9, 12/8

PMMC03, pp82-87 of Ch 4, Concepts of Sustainability, 12/8

 

LINKS TO READINGS (only a selection of readings which are in the References, in author-alphabetical order)

Alley, Marotzke, Nordhaus et al. (2003)

Andreoni and Levinson (2001)

Burke (2008)

Cole (2003)

Dasgupta and Heal (1974)

Hamilton (1994)

Hamilton, C. (1999)

Hamilton and Clemens (1999)

Hanley et al. (2007a)

Hartwick (1977) or my transcription of this

Monfreda et al. (2004)

Nordhaus (1992)

Nordhaus and Yang (1996)

Nordhaus and Boyer (1999)

Nordhaus (2007a, book draft)

Nordhaus (2007b, JEL)

Nordhaus (2008a, book, N8)

Nordhaus (2008b, GAMS code for book)

Pezzey, Hanley, Tinch & Turner (2006)

Pillarisetti (2005)

Solow (1974)

Spash (2007)

Steffen, Sanderson et al (2004) (SS)  (go to fourth book listed on this weblink and download Executive Summary)

Stern (2004)

Stern (2006, Table of Contents) (S06 refers to the whole of this report)

Stern (2006, Summary of Conclusions)

Stern (2006, Executive Summary)

Stern (2006), Part I

Stern (2006), Part II

Stern (2006), Part III

Stern (2006), Part IV

Stern (2006), Part V

Stern (2006), Part VI

Stiglitz (1974)

van den Bergh (2004)

Vensim PLE Quick Reference and Tutorial

Wackernagel et al. (2002)

Weitzman (2007)

Weitzman (2009)

World Bank (2006) (WB06)

 

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