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The selection of primarily non-EPA Internet links is made to include sites that are particularly useful to environmental economists interested in environmental pollution control because they:
| Title | Category | Description |
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| A Guide for Cost-effectiveness and Cost-benefit Analysis of State and Local Ground Water Protection Programs | Government -- U.S. EPA | Use of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis to evaluate ground water program at the State and local levels. |
AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies--RIA Database  | Non-profit | Inventory of RIAs from 10 Federal agencies |
| AEI-Brookings Joint Program for Regulatory Studies | Non-profit | Plans to provide analyses of existing regulatory programs and new regulatory proposals. |
| Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics Mailing Lists | Web directories and mailing lists | Compilation of mailing lists from Resources for Economists on the Internet |
| Agriculture and Natural Resources section of WebEc | Web directories and mailing lists | Lists and describes material that could be of interest to mainly academic economists and is at least in part freely available on the Internet. |
| American Agricultural Economics Association | Association | Professional association of economists interested in agriculture, food, resources, and economic development. |
| Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Association,Newsletter | Professional association concerned with the allocation and management of natural and environmental resources; publishes newsletter. |
| Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society | Association | Professional association concerned with the Economic problems of world and Australian agriculture, natural resources, and the environment. |
| Beneficial Use Values Database | Educational | An informational database of economic values for beneficial uses of water |
| Best of the Web: Environmental Economics | Web directories and mailing lists | Listing of Websites concerning environmental economics |
| Census' Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditures Survey | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Describes survey which provided annual data from 1973 to 1994 on pollution abatement capital expenditures, operating costs, and costs recovered by private industry. |
| Center for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment | Educational | Includes abstracts for publications and working papers from this unit of the University of East Anglia, UK |
| Centre for Economic and Social Studies on the Environment (CESSE) | Educational | List of internet sites dealing with sustainable development. |
| Congressional Research Service Reports | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Access to reports on natural resources and environmental quality |
| Dealing with Pollution | Educational,Plain English | Presents a case for using market-based economic incentives for environmental protection |
| Ecological, Environmental, and Natural Resource Economics Syllabi and Bibliographies | Educational | Academic Web pages from environmental economists tabulated by Davidson College Economics Department |
| Economic Performance and Environmental Quality Information Base | Educational | Databases of economic activity matched with data on a variety of environmental quality indicators and examples of how economic instruments are being used to improve the environment |
| Economic Research Service Publications | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Publications of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's Economic Research Service |
| Economics and Cost Analysis Support | Government -- U.S. EPA | Website for the Innovative Strategies and Economics Group of the EPA Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards |
| Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World | Non-profit,Educational,International organization | World index |
| Economics Departments, Institutes and Research Centers in the World: Resource and Environmental Economics | Web directories and mailing lists | Listings with links of many such centers throughout the world in resource and environmental economics. |
| Economy and Environment Program for South East Asia (EEPSEA) | Non-profit,International organization | Supports training and research in environmental & resource economics to provide support to researchers in its ten member countries. |
| EEPSEA: Economy and Environment Program for Southeast Asia | Association | |
| Envalue--A Searchable Environmental Valuation Database | Government -- non-U.S. | Collection of environmental valuation studies presented in an on-line database by the New South Wales EPA of Australia |
| Environment and Development Economics | Journal | Sustainable development, valuation of environmental resources in low-income countries, 'greening' of national income accounts, and environmental implications of institutional change. |
| Environment Australia's Environmental Economics Unit | Government -- non-U.S. | Describes responsibilities and publications of Unit and provides general information on environmetal economics |
| Environment for Development | Non-profit | The EfD initiative is a capacity building program in environmental economics foscusing on research, policy advice, and teaching in China, Central America, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, and Tanzania |
| Environmental and Resource Economics | Journal | Environmental issues that require rational economic analysis. |
| Environmental Business Journal | Commercial information sources | Business publication for companies in the environmental industry |
| Environmental Damage Valuation and Cost Benefit News | Newsletter,Commercial information sources | Newsletter on valuation of environmental damages based on information from the courts, government agencies, academic literature, and unpublished studies. |
| Environmental Economics | Journal | Electronically pubiishes working and accepted paper abstracts in environmental economics. |
| Environmental Economics and Policy Studies | Journal | Journal aims to provide an international forum for debates among diverse disciplines such as environmental economics, environmental policy studies, and related fields |
| Environmental Economics Programme of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Environment and Development (CREED) | Non-profit,International organization | Strengthens capacity in environmental economics research and policy analysis |
| Environmental Economics, a Google category | Web directories and mailing lists | Links to selected Web sites on the basis of their PageRanking methodology |
| Environmental Economics, a Yahoo category | Web directories and mailing lists | Wide assortment of Web links |
| Environmental Literacy Council: Economic Incentives | Non-profit,Plain English | Brief overview of the use of economic incentives to promote environmental protection with selected links for general publc |
| Environmental Literacy Council: Environmental Economics | Non-profit,Plain English | Brief overview of economics from an environmental viewpoint with links for general publc |
| Environmental Statistics - Statistics Canada | Government -- non-U.S. | Publishes data and statistical analyses which are useful for monitoring and studying the natural environment and the impact of economic and social activities upon it. |
| Environmental Tax Reform, a Yahoo category | Web directories and mailing lists | Listing of Websites |
| Environmental Trading Network | Non-profit | Organization dedicated to the development and implementation of successful water quality trading programs |
| Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators | Non-profit | Online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators. |
| Environmental Valuation Reference Inventory of Environment Canada | Government -- non-U.S. | Subscription-based searchable storehouse of empirical studies on the economic value of environmental benefits and human health effects |
| EPA Acid Rain Emissions Trading and Market Trends | Government -- U.S. EPA | Trading of allowances for sulfur dioxide emissions |
| EPA Datasets | Government -- U.S. EPA | Some Web-available datasets of particular interest to environmental economists |
| EPA Environmental Economics Report Inventory | Government -- U.S. EPA | Inventory of reports done for EPA National Center for Environmental Economics and predecessors including over 200 that can be downloaded. |
| EPA Regulatory Econmic Analyses Inventory | Government -- U.S. EPA | Document profiles for more than 1,200 EPA economic reports relating to hundreds of regulations and including over 50 that can be downloaded |
| European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Association | Professional association concerned with the development and application of environmental and resource economics as a science in Europe. |
| European Commission: Environmental Economics | Government -- non-U.S.,International organization | Documents prepared by, or for, the economic unit of the Environment Directorate-General |
| Federal Statistical Office of Germany: Environment | Government -- non-U.S. | Includes tables on German environmental protection expenditures and revenues from taxes and fees related to the environment |
| Forum for Applied Research and Public Policy U. Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Labs | Journal | Energy, environment, economic development, and science and technology. |
| Government of Japan Environment Agency | Government -- non-U.S. | Includes report on auto-related environmental taxes and their utilization in environmental policy |
| IIED Environmental Economics Programme | Non-profit,International organization | Develops and promotes the application of economics to understand the links between natural resource use, environmental quality, economic development and poverty alleviation. |
| Inter-American Development Bank Publications on Environment and Natural Resources | International organization | Lists a number of downloadable reports |
| Introduction to Environmental Economics Research at EPA | Government -- U.S. EPA | introduction, survey, and overview of EPA's economic research studies funded by the Office of Research and Development and the Office of Policy |
| JEEM (Journal of Environmental Economics and Management) | Journal | Linkage between economic systems and environmental and natural resources systems. |
| Journal of Environment and Development | Journal | Environmental and developmental issues, including sustainable development. |
| Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists | Association | Supports the development and implementation of the environmental and natural resource economic instruments, in order to contribute to the sustainable development of Latin American countries |
| List of Economics Journals | Journal | Web sites for worldwide economic journals |
| List of Papers by Parallel Sessions at 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists | Association,Educational | Links to all available papers presented at 2002 World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists |
| Marine Resource Economics | Journal | Journal covering economic and policy analysis of marine resources |
| National Agricultural Library | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Major international source for agriculture and related information; provides access to NAL's many resources and a gateway to its associated institutions. |
| National Center for Environmental Research Science Topics | Government -- U.S. EPA | Information on the STAR Economics and Decision Sciences Program |
| National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy | Government -- non-U.S. | Independent agency of the Canadian Government that seeks to provide objective views and information regarding the relationship between the environment and the economy. |
| NCEE in Plain English | Government -- U.S. EPA,Plain English | Links to discussions of environmental economics in forms understandable to the non-specialist |
| North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation--Environment, Economy & Trade | Government -- non-U.S. | Program page of the North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation created by Canada, Mexico, and the United States under the North American Agreement on Environmental Cooperation |
| NSF/EPA Funding for Environmental Economics | Government -- U.S. EPA | Database of environmental economics projects funded by the EPA Office of Research and Development or NSF/EPA jointly since 1991. |
| Nutrient Net | Non-profit | Online resource for reducing watershed nutrient runoff |
| OECD Environment | International organization | Provides governments with the analytical basis to develop environmental policies that are effective and economically efficient |
| OECD Environmental Taxes, Tradable Permits, etc. | International organization | Economic instruments in OECD member countries |
| OMB's Economic Analysis Guidance | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Results of an exhaustive two-year effort by an interagency group formed by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget to describe "best practices" for preparing the economic analyses of significant regulatory actions called for by Executive Order 12866. |
| Practical Economic Analysis of Environmental Policy Course Materials Database | Educational,Government -- U.S. EPA | Identifies and catalogues sources of information useful in developing courses focusing on practical cost-benefit analysis and other economic assessments of environmental policies |
| Professor Tom Tietenberg's Homepage | Educational | Bibliographies and working papers on sustainaable development/economics and tradable permits |
| Professor Trudy Ann Cameron's Bookmarks, UCLA; Environment and Natural Resource Economics | Educational | List of Websites maintained by Trudy Cameron at UCLA |
| Public Working Papers Repository | Journal,Government -- U.S. EPA,Web directories and mailing lists | Inventory/electronic journal of downloadable or Web-accessible professional working papers and reports on the economics of environmental pollution control |
| Publications from Redefining Progress | Non-profit | Includes HTML reports on economic incentives and the economics of climate change |
| RANESA - Resource Accounting Network for Eastern and Southern Africa | Association,Government -- non-U.S. |  |
| Report to Congress on the Costs and Benefits of Federal Regulations | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Provides links to series of Office of Management and Budget reports |
| Resource and Energy Economics | Journal | Economic analysis of utilization and development of the earth's natural resources. |
| Resources for Economists (RFE) | Web directories and mailing lists | |
| Resources for the Future | Non-profit | Research organization that aims to help people make better decisions about the conservation and use of their natural resources and the environment. |
| Selected Industrial Air Pollution Control Equipment | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Provides detailed data on new orders, shipments, and backlog of orders of air pollution control equipment |
| Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies | Association | Japanese association |
| South Australian Government: Department of the Environment and Heritage: Publications on Economics | Government -- non-U.S. | Books and reports |
| Sportfishing Values Database | Company,Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Database of over 100 travel cost and contingent valuation studies of sportfishing activity. |
| Steve Hackett's Internet Resources for Economists | Educational,Web directories and mailing lists | Large collection of category links to other economics sites, with several categories devoted to environmental economics topics. |
| The Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics | Non-profit | Swedish institute with extensive publications list |
| The Biodiversity Economics Library | Non-profit,International organization | A clearing house devoted to the mission of the IUCN - The World Conservation Uniton |
| The Cost of Illness Handbook | Government -- U.S. EPA | Provides estimates of the lower bound cost of medical care for a number of environmentally-related illnesses |
| The Economics of Natural Resources: Bibliography by R.A. Muller | Educational | Partially annotated references on topics in natural resources and environmental economics. |
| The Economics of the Environment | Educational,Plain English | Lecture by Partha Dasgupta |
| The London Group on Environmental Accounting | Association,Government -- non-U.S. | Forum for practitioners to share their experience of developing and implementing environmental satellite accounts linked to the economic accounts of the System of National Accounts |
| The Right-to-Know Newwork | Non-profit | Provides access to a number of major EPA and other environmental databases |
| Trade and Environment Database | Non-profit | Inventory of cases in trade and environment. Each case is coded on 28 different criteria and accompanied by a written report. |
| UN Environment and Economics Unit (EEU) Publications Database | International organization | United Nations Environment Programme |
| Unit-Based Pricing in the United States: A Tally of Communities | Government -- U.S. EPA | Database providing state-by-state listing of U.S. unit pricing communities through June 1998 including their population, program type, and date of implementation. |
| United Nations Environment Programme Economics and Trade Programme | International organization | Activities, news, and events from the Economics and Trade Unit in UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry and Economics |
| U.S. Census Bureau--CES Working Paper Series | Government -- U.S. non-EPA | Working papers from the U.S. Census Bureau's Center for Economic Studies |
| Water Quality Economics and Benefits | Government -- U.S. EPA | EPA Water Office Program to improve the data and methods used for estimating the benefits of its water quality programs. |
| West Coast Environmental Law | Non-profit | Includes extensive publications by organization devoted to promoting environmental law reform |
| Workshop on Market Based Approaches to Environmental Policy | Educational | Programs and papers presented at two 1998 conferences |
| World Bank Environmental Economics and Indicators | International organization | Includes sections on Environmental Valuation Green Accounting |
| World Bank New Ideas in Pollution Regulation | International organization | World Bank Economics of Industrial Pollution research project |
| World Bank Policy Research Working Papers: Abstracts, Environmentally Sustainable Development | International organization | Listing of World Bank working papers with both abstracts and downloadable PDF files. |
| World Bank Working Papers | International organization | The Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates findings of work in progress |
| World Resources Institute Business and Economics | Non-profit | "Global Topics" page for WRI's Sustainable Enterprise Program |
| World Trade Organization Trade-and-the-Environment Material on the WTO Website | International organization | Wide variety of material on trade and environment issues |