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.