Resources
-Railroad Acts
Natural Resources
-Timber Culture Act
Environmental Cognition
-Mining Act
- 5 factors
-1840-1910
Kinds of Resources
-Emerson, Thoreau, Marsh
- Perpetual
-Forest Policy
- Renewable
-National Forests, Pinchot
- Non-Renewable
-National Parks, Muir
- Potential
-1930-1940 (New Deal)
Conservation
-TVA
- Questions (Ethical, Spiritual,
-SCS
Economic, etc.)
-Farm Service Agency
Nature-centered vs. Human-centered
-Taylor Grazing Act
Views of Resources
-1962-1976
-Books
Economics Defined
-Legislation
Price (Value)
-NEPA
3 Types of Economic Systems
-1976-1988
Supply and Demand
-TSCA
-Perfect Competition
-RCRA
-Reality in Natural Resources
-Economic Issues
-Oligopolistic Competition
-1988-Present
Nat. Res. as part of finished goods
International Initiatives
Inelastic Supply
-Institutions
Benefit-Cost Analysis
-Conferences
-Incommensurables
4 Types of Goals for Environ. Policy
-Determining Value for Preserving
Structure of Resource Decisionmaking in US
Resources, Lives, etc.
-Actors
-Willingness to Pay
-Agencies, Organizations
-Proxy Value
-Strategies
-Replacement Cost
Private Industry as Environ Innovator
Role of Economics in Managing Resources
Localizing Environmental Issues
-Ownership - Common Property
-Social Costs - Externalities
Ecology/Sustainability
-Materials Fees, Marketable
Emissions
Ecosystem
-Individual Firms
Community
-Multinationals
Biomes
-Green Business
World Land Use
-Deregulation
1st Law of Thermodynamics
READ - "The Value of Nature" pp. 28-29
2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Carbon Cycle
International Environmental Policy
Hydrologic Cycle
Early Resource Use
Food Chain
US Environmental Policy
Population Growth in Ecosystem
- 1600-1870
-Colonial Period
-Homestead Act