Table of Contents:

• Course Title
  
• Three Parts of Textbook
  
• Introduction to Environmental and Natural Resources Economics
  
• Harmonizing Economy and Environment
  
• What is Environmental Economics?
  
• What is Natural Resources Economics?
  
• What is the Economics of a Sustainable Society?
  
• Definitions: Economics, Scarcity
  
• Definition: Opportunity Cost
  
• Production Possibilities Frontier
  
• Definition: Economic Rationality
  
• Reasons for Optimism
  
• Economic Health and Environmental Protection are Compatible
  
• More on this Compatibility
  
• Economy-Wide Tradeoff of Jobs v. Environment is Largely a Myth
  
• Areas of Concern
  
• More on Areas of Concern
  
• Value Systems and Economic Systems
  
• What is a "Good" Way to Allocate Scarce Resources?
  
• Fundamentals of Ethical Systems
  
• Two Traditional Classes of Ethics
  
• Deontological Ethics
  
• Rawls: Justice as Fairness
  
• Fundamental Deep Ecology Concepts
  
• Teleological Ethics
  
• Two Types of Teleological Ethical Systems
  
• Utilitarianism Act vs. Rule
  
• A Closer Look at Utilitarianism
  
• Bentham on Utilitarianism
  
• More Bentham on Utilitarianism
  
• Even More Bentham on Utilitarianism
  
• Ethical Criterion for Utilitarianism
  
• Amartya Sen on Utilitarianism
  
• Utilitarianism as the Ethical Foundation of Benefit/Cost Analysis
  
• Benefit/Cost Analysis Assumes Constant Marginal Utility of Money
  
• Pareto Efficiency Criterion
  
• Kaldor-Hicks Efficiency Criterion
  
• Private Property, Self-Interest, and the Common Good
  
• Locke and the Liberal Society
  
• Neo-Lockeans
  
• Rousseau and the Civil Society
  
• Positive and Normative Economics
  
• Self-Interested Behavior
  
• More on Self-Interested Behavior
  
• Even More on Self-Interested Behavior
  
• Three Fundamental Economic Questions
  
• Dispute Resolution