Course Homepage
Instructor Contact Information:
Ian Keay
Email: ikeay@econ.queensu.ca
Office: Dunning Hall 317
Office Hours Monday 2:00 pm -
4:00 pm
Thursday 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
By appointment
Teaching Assistants: Kevork Hacatoglu (kevork.hacatoglu@chee.queensu.ca)
Jason
Wamboldt (7jmw1@qlink.queensu.ca)
Course
Outline and Reading List
Assignments will be provided in
class and mounted on this homepage at
least 2 weeks before the due date.
Assignment
# 1 - Due by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, October 17
Assignment
# 2 - Due by 4:00 pm, Wednesday, November 28
Overheads:
Slide
3 - Negative
Externality Example
Slide
4 - Equimarginal Principle
Slide
5 - Brundtland Commission's Definition of Sustainable Development
Announcements:
As a result of poor copy quality in the reading
package, please find PDF files for the readings in the section on the
standard
neo-classical economic model:
Field
and Olewiler, Chapter 3
Field
and Olewiler, Chapter 4
Final exam tutorial: Tuesday,
December 18, 1:00 - 3:00 pm, Biosciences Complex Room 2109
Final exam office hours: Monday, December 17, 1:00 - 4:00 pm
Wednesday, December 19, 10:30 am - Noon
Final Exam Readings: All required
readings (*) included on reading list EXCEPT Topic # 8 (Ecological
Economists Critique # 4).
Assignment # 2 pick
up: Jason Wamboldt
Friday, December 14, Noon - 2:00 pm
Biosciences Complex Room 2112 B
OR
Kevork Hacatoglu
Monday, December 17, Noon - 2:00 pm
Biosciences Complex Room 2112 B
Topics:
(1) Introduction: Defining ecological economics.
(2) The standard neo-classical economic model: Marginal benefits, marginal costs and market interactions.
(3) Introducing environmental assets into the standard model: Externalities, public goods and market failures.
(4) The neo-classical response: Command and control, and market based policies.
(5) Ecological economists’ critique # 1: Measuring non-use and non-market values.
(6) Ecological economists’ critique # 2: Trading off wealth and welfare (the environmental Kuznet’s curve).
(7) Ecological economists’ critique # 3: Defining and measuring sustainable growth and sustainable development.
(8) Ecological economists’ critique # 4: Optimal
extinction.
Textbook:
A reading package containing all required readings is available on reserve at the AMS P & CC and at Stauffer Library.
Requirements:
Two assignments - Wednesday, October 17
AND
Wednesday, November
28
Midterm exam - Wednesday, October 24
Final exam - 9:00 am, December 20
Grade Distribution
Student's best assignment will count for 10% of their course grade.
Student's worst assignment will count for 5% of their course grade.
Student's midterm will count for 30% of their
course grade.
Student's final exam will count for 55% of their
course grade.