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Updated 4/10 with a few more photos and notes.
Slides from presentation by environmental engineer Leif Hauge of the Waukesha County Land Resources Division. On Thurs. 4/23/20, the Zoom recording was finally available and a link to it is posted under Bookmarks.
Additional image used in Leif Hauge's presentation.
Background information on the data sets with which hedonic regression models can be estimated.
The Stata software required to use these commands for hedonic regression is installed in the TW 318 computer lab.
One of two sample data sets with which hedonic regression models can be estimated with the commands stored separately.
The first five minutes of the first Australian Broadcasting Corporation video report are the most important, though after 11 minutes into it, international trade issues are also addressed.
In the case of the Detroit incinerator, following the link to YouTube will open the first of three 5-minute segments of a Detroit Free Press video report. Watch at least the first, and preferably all three.
For the Baltimore incinerator, the key parts are the two embedded videos, at the top and in the middle.
As of 4/5/2020, these include the notes pages. The notes include a few details not necessarily stated in the recorded lecture. Read up to slide 16 with the recorded lecture before doing "08 Exercise - sustainability & NPV"
Do this after reading/watching the "08 Sustainability concepts" lecture, and before reviewing with the master Google Sheet and recording.
Documents posted under Activities will be divided into sets for each group of three weeks of the semester and their names will usually begin with the related chapter ##(s) of G&P.
Some questions I came up with earlier that complement our discussion in class 1/21-23/2020.
For a better visualization of constant utility (indifference) curves, specifically from the Cobb-Douglass utility function, see http://www2.hawaii.edu/~fuleky/anatomy/anatomy.html.
Printed copies will be provided in class.
For your convenience in getting to it after looking up other materials here.
We mainly went back over NPV calculations and their interpretations.
Mainly Q&A about upcoming assignments, game theory of competitive consumption from chap. 11 & lecture.
Talk by & Q&A with Leif Hauge, environmental engineer with Waukesha County's Land Resources Division. He separately recommended that those interested in related internships and eventual long-term jobs look at https://wisconsinlandwater.org/member-resources/jobs.
This came up on 3/3/20 in relation to the enforceability of marine protected areas.
This came up on 3/3/20 in relation to marine protected areas and the various kinds of damage -- from mining as well as fishing -- that they can prevent. A similar source, http://www.savethehighseas.org/deep-sea-mining/making-a-change/, more specifically advocates for protected areas to contain such damage.
The Wisconsin DNR's page about its restoration project. The exam 1 article, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/22/climate/trump-environment-water.html, shows similar water bodies. Also related to an exam question is a page (http://www.oregonloggers.org/Forest_Logging_Machines.aspx) about logging machines.
US EPA. Follow up on 07 Discussion prep - safety ...
Rolling Stone feature article, 30 pp. A case study we'll address in connection with sustainability or policy.
Read Coase’s comments on “The problem of social cost," the source of the Coase "Theorem." They start more than halfway through. Other parts of his work that he addresses here are less relevant to our course. This is also linked to Efficiency lecture slide 10, which you'll see released on Wed. 2/14.
By the way, Oliver Williamson, another Nobel Laureate mentioned by Coase, studied at Ripon College in the 1950s. His Nobel lecture (not focused on environmental applications of transaction cost economics) is at https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/economic-sciences/2009/williamson/lecture/.
Shown in class Tues., 2/25/20.
US NOAA. Shown 1/23/20.
US NASA
US NOAA. See the graphs and maps.
NY Times. Shown 1/23/20.
BBC. Temperature graph shown 1/23/20.
Shown 1/28/20.
NY Times. With maps shown 1/28/20.
InsideClimateNews, apparently excerpted from https://nca2018.globalchange.gov/. See the second graphic for a summary of types of effects, and the first graphic for a summary of causes.
See also https://www.pnas.org/content/116/20/9808 for an article on inequitable global distribution of effects and a summary graphic with examples.
Time
The video will start playing when a reporter is asking the question that preceded her 5-minute speech. The rest of the speech explains some of the connections asked about in the question.
5-minute excerpt
For 1/28/20.
Time.
Similarly, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/06/opinion/climate-change-walmart-paris.html.
We started to use simple tools of algebra with utility and social welfare functions. This online book can help your review them as needed. We will use a few more of those tools with other models as well.
Several chapters are directly relevant to our focus, and many indirectly.
Comparing Greta Thunberg's understanding to comments of the U.S. Treasury secretary at Davos.
This may not reflect some of the more minor recent changes in APA style rules. Check the style manuals for those details.
The outline is more complete and polished than your draft needs to be. As the comments indicate, the "thesis statement" is really just a list of arguments, not a statement of their unifying theme, and needs a lot of work. The list of references is not needed at the draft outline stage of your project.
This sample past exam is meant to illustrate the format of this year's exams, not the details of their content, which could vary substantially from past years'.