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Tuesday - I will answer any questions you have in preparation for the midterm.  Then we will begin our conversation on Environmental Justice. Let's start with this interview -  http://e360.yale.edu/features/a-troubling-look-at-the-human-toll-of-mountaintop-removal-mining Thursday - We will discuss this Janet Currie paper -  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4847437/pdf/nihms764460.pdf I will send out the midterm as a take-home exam after class on Tuesday and it will be due at the beginning of class on Thursday.

Tuesday we will discuss material from chapters 11 and 15.  The only model we will use is the fisheries biology one.  Do not worry about all the other graphs. For Thursday, please read these papers to inform our discussion: http://e360.yale.edu/features/can-the-world-find-solutions-to-the-nitrogen-pollution-crisis https://www.nature.com/articles/nature21708.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Susana_Perera-Valderrama/publication/320190902_Marine_protected_areas_in_Cuba/links/59d54e2da6fdcc87469564ce/Marine-protected-areas-in-Cuba.pdf For your blog post - pick something from one or more of these articles that you would like to discuss in class.

Tuesday we will talk about chapter 4. Please read this paper for Thursday: https://ac.els-cdn.com/S0964569116302150/1-s2.0-S0964569116302150-main.pdf?_tid=112d842c-082e-11e8-aadd-00000aab0f6c&acdnat=1517585638_360ec915717ed14d266008c97ef24d32

On Tuesday, we will develop several models for analyzing the link between Economic Growth and the Environment - (no reading assignment). Then we will move to "Valuing the Environment" -  http://jollygreengeneral.typepad.com/files/chapter-4-p.-92---128.pdf Thursday, let's back up and discuss the Solow Paper -  http://cda.mrs.umn.edu/~kildegac/Courses/Enviro/3008/Readings/Solow.pdf after we finish learning about non-market valuation.

We have three papers to discuss next week.  I do not think we will get to all three of them as we still have some ground to cover that we did not get to yesterday.  In addition to finishing our conversation concerning the material in chapter 3, I think we will get to the Tragedy of the Commons on Tuesday. So, let's focus our comments in preparation for Thursday on Krutilla's Conservation reconsidered. http://www.rff.org/files/sharepoint/News/Features/Documents/071003%20Krutilla-ConservationReconsidered.pdf

http://jollygreengeneral.typepad.com/files/chapter-3-p.-45---91.pdf I want you to focus on the  Pigou vs. Coase debate in the chapter.  In case you are interested in the originals....... https://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/coase.pdf https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=26kAAwAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PT10&dq=pigou+1938+welfare+economics&ots=z8o6kHWInb&sig=lWhrZc_eRcxPGpGYdwqLcOBy7Og#v=onepage&q=pigou%201938%20welfare%20economics&f=false

http://www.rff.org/files/sharepoint/WorkImages/Download/RFF-DP-98-29.pdf