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Natural Resource Economics (ECON 4028)

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Prontuario (Enero 2003)

Proyecto de Investigacion (Instrucciones-Enero 2003)

Pasos para Proyecto de Investigacion (Ejemplo)

Citation Style for Papers in Economics

Textbook's Website

Biblioteca Virtual de Puerto Rico (Ambiente)

Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales de Puerto Rico

Centro Eco-Educativo de Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico: Environment, Natural Resources and Energy

Statement by Puerto Rico at the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development.

Ranking of M.S. and Ph.D. Programs in Natural Resource and Environmental Economics; and Agricultural Economics - Fall 1999

Online Readings

For Chapter 1:

Malthus, Thomas R. 1798. An Essay on the Principle of Population.

Meadows, Donella H., Dennis l. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. 1972. The Limits to Growth. A Report to the Club of Rome. Abstract established by Eduard Pestel.

Pezzey, John C.V. and John M. Anderiesy. 2000. Some Further Economics of Easter Island: Subsistence and the Evolution of Resource Conservation. Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies Australian National University Canberra and Commonwealth Scientic and Industry Research Organization, Division of Wildlife and Ecology: Canberra, Australia.

For Chapter 2:

Bockstael, Nance E., Myrick Freeman III, Raymond J. Koop, Paul R. Portney, and V. Kerry Smith. 1998. On Valuing Nature. University of Maryland, Bowdoin College, Resources for the Future (Kopp and Portney) and Duke University.

Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas. The Entropy Law and the Economic Problem

Kelman, Steven. 1981. Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical Critique. AEI Journal on Government and Society Regulation (January/February): pp. 33-40.

Kopp, Raymond J. 1996. Economic Valuation of Environmental and Natural Resource Assets: Applications to Environmental Accounting. Resources for the Future. Washington, D.C.

For Chapter 3:

Carson, Richard T., Robert C. Mitchell, W. Michael Hanemann, Raymond J. Kopp, Stanley Presser, and Paul A. Ruud. 1994. Contingent Valuation and Lost Passive Use: Damages from the Exxon Valdez. Working Paper. Resources for the Future. Washington, D.C.

Constanza, et al. 1997. The Value of the World's Ecosystems Services and Natural Capital. Nature. Vol. 387. May 15. pp: 253-260.

Cummings, Ronald G., and Glenn W. Harrison. 1995. The Measurement and Decomposition of Nonuse Values: A Critical Review. Environmental and Resource Economics, 5, pp: 225-247.

Cummings, Ronald G., and David S. Brookshire. 1986. Valuing Environmental Goods: A State of the Arts Assessment of the Contingent Valuation Method. Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation. United States Environmental Protection Agency. Washington, D.C.

Kopp, Raymond J., and V. Kerry Smith. 1995. Constructing Measures of Economic Value. Working Paper. Resources for the Future. Washington, D.C.

Loomis, John B. 1996. Use of Non-Market Valuation Studies in Water Resource Management Assessments. Colorado State University.

For Chapter 4:

Ayres, Ian, and Steven D. Levitt. 1998. Measuring Positive Externalities from Unobservable Victim Precaution: An Empirical Analysis of Lojack. Quarterly Journal of Economics, February, pp-43-77.

Coase, Ronald. 1960. The Problem of Social Cost. The Journal of Law and Economics, 3. October. pp:1-44.

Stavins, Robert N. 1989. Harnessing Market Forces to Protect the Environment. Environment 31: 4-7, pp: 28-35.

Analisis ADEC. 1999. Disponibilidad y Demanda de Agua en Puerto Rico. Boletin Electronico, Analisis ADEC. Universidad de Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Aponte Ortiz, Felix. 1999. La Problematica del Suministro de Agua en Puerto Rico. Analisis ADEC. Universidad de Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Birdsey, Richard A. and Peter L. Weaver. 1987. Forest Area Trends in Puerto Rico. Research Note, SO 331. United States Department of Agriculture, United States Forest Service, and Southern Forest Experiment Station

Camus Gayan, Pablo. 2001. Perspectiva de la Historia Ambiental: Origenes, Definiciones y Problematicas. Pensamiento Critico. Revista Electronica de Historia. No. 1. www.pensamientocritico.cl

Guilbe López, Carlos J. 1999. El manejo de las cuencas hidrológicas en Puerto Rico: la autonomía municipal frente a la crisis del agua potable en el Area Metropolitana de San Juan. Analisis ADEC. Universidad de Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Soler-López, L.R., 2001, "Sedimentation survey results of the principal water supply reservoirs of Puerto Rico"; in W.F. Sylva (ed.), Proceedings of the Sixth Caribbean Islands Water Resources Congress, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, February 22 and 23, 2001.

Solow, Robert and Frederic Y. Wan. Extraction Costs in the Theory of Exhaustible Resources. The Bell Journal of Economics: 359-370.

Stiglitz, J.E. 1980. A Neoclassical Analysis of the Economics of Natural Resources. NBERRE 0077. National Bureau of Economic Research. Washington, D.C.

Tahvonen, O. 2000. Economic Sustainability and Scarcity of Natural Resources: A Brief Historical Review. Resources for the Future. Washington, D.C.

U.S. Geological Survey. Water Resources Data for Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. 1999, 2000, 2001.

U.S. Geological Survey. Real-time Water Levels for Reservoirs in Puerto Rico

V élez Arocho, Javier. 1999. Se nos perdió el paraíso: el problema de la calidad del agua en nuestro Puerto Rico. Analisis ADEC. Universidad de Puerto Rico: Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico.

Online Learning Resources:

Classroom Games: The Allocation of Renewable Resources Under Different Property Rights and Regulation Schemes

Experience with Scripted Role Play in Environmental Economics

An Introduction to Critical Thinking

Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Science and Humanism

Critical Thinking and Interdisciplinarity in Environmental Higher Education: The Case for Epistemological and Values Awareness

Thinking Critically in Economics (Web Edition)

Promoting Critical Thinking in Economics Education

Teaching Critical Thinking through Environmental Education. ERIC/SMEAC Environmental

Education Digest No. 2.

Critical Thinking for Sustainable Community Decision-Making: A Community Leadership Tool

Environmental Conflict: An Opportunity to Develop Critical Thinking Skills

"Changing Life": A working group fostering critical thinking about the life and environmental sciences

Aprendiendo a Manejar los Recursos Naturales

Role Playing in the History of Economic Thought