Chapter 1
Introduction to natural resource and environment economics

Good introductions and overviews

• US EPA: National Centre for Environmental Economics Home Page
• US EPA Plain English Guides to environmental economics
• Keynes Memorial lecture: The economics of the environment (by Partha Dasgupta)
• Environmental Literacy Council: Economics (How it is helpful to environmental analysis)

United Nations Organisation

• United Nations Environment Programme (Geneva, Switzerland site)
• UNEP Main site (Containing the 2011 UNEP Year Book)
• EOLSS (UNESCO) The UNESCO Encyclopaedia of Life Support Systems

Environmental economics professional associations

• The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
• Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE)

Environmental centres

• Resources For the Future
• Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
• World Resources Institute
• The European Environment Agency
• Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics