Introduction to Ecological Economics
Reading Materials
Required textbooks:
Ecological Economics: Principles and Applications, by Daly and Farley
Island Press, 2004
ISBN 1-55963-312-3 Hardback
Readings will be drawn from the above texts averaging 50-75 pages per
weekly class.
All readings should be completed before class. This will help you
understand the lectures better, and allow you to apply examples from
your specific problem to classroom discussion.
Week One- Optional:
Kysar law Review article on
Ecological Economics : Law Environment, and Vision
or
Sustainability, Distribution, and the macroeconomic analysis of law
or
Czech-Runaway Train 1st half
Week Two- Cassandras and Cornucopians
Week Four-July 1-required
The Triumph of Pareto
Week Five-July 15th-required
State of the Commons
website
2003-04
State of the Commons
Earth Shareholder Equity section
Week six-July 22-required
Nature Paper -Value
of Earth's Ecosystem Services
Environmental Taxes: An
Introductory Primer , Milne
Further readings on Green Taxes-Optional
Tax Reform that
Agrees with Vermont , Vermont Fair Tax Coalition
Taxing Pollution
, Vermont Fair Tax Coalition
Green Tax bills
proposed , Vermont Fair Tax Coalition
Green Tax bills
passed , Vermont Fair Tax Coalition
Environmental taxes; Recent
developments in tools for integration , European Enviro Agency
Green Taxes for the Green
Mountain State -draft proposal, G. Flomenhoft et al
Chart of existing Green
taxes in Vermont , compiled by G. Flomenhoft (excel spreadsheet)
Week Seven-optional
Concepts of ecosystem value and valuation approaches (See chapter 6)
Federal
Subsidies to oil-Greenpeace
Recommended Reading:
For the Common Good, Daly and Cobb
Beacon Press, Boston, 1994
ISBN: 0-8070-4705-8 paperback
Optional Reading (on reserve in VT law library):
Valuing the Earth, Daly and Townsend
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA 1993
ISBN: 0-262-54068-1 paperback
Shoveling Fuel for a Runaway Train (Part One), by Brian Czech
University of California Press, Berkeley and LA, CA 2000
ISBN: 0-520-22514-7 paperback
The Growth Illusion, Richard Douthwaite
New Society Publishers, Gabriola Isle, Canada, 1999
ISBN: 0-86571-396-0 paperback
The Corruption of Economics, Gaffney and Harrison
Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers Ltd., London, 1994
ISBN: 0-85683-151-4 paperback
The Costs of Economic Growth, E.J. Mishan.
Praeger Publishers, NY, 1967
Library of Congress #67-30471 hardback
UVM Ecological Economics Seminar Lectures, 2003
Powerpoint presentations, and/or videos
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/SNR_seminar/
Silent Theft, David Bollier
Routledge, NY, 2002
ISBN: 0-415-93264-5 hardback
Transforming Economic Life, James Robertson
Green Books Ltd.
Foxhole, Dartington, Totnes,
Devon TQ9 6EB