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Recommended Introductory Papers/Articles

1. Ayres, R. U., and A. V. Kneese. 1969. Production, Consumption, and Externalities. American Economic Review 59 (3): 282-297
2. Constanza, R., R. d’Arge, R. d. Groot, S. Farberk, M. Grasso, B. Hannon, K. Limburg, S. Naeem, R. V. O’Neill, J. Paruelo, R. G. R.
   Suttonkk, and M. v. d. Belt. 1997. The Value of the World's Ecosystem Services and Natural Capital. Nature 387 (6630): 253-59
3. Costanza, R., H. Daly, C. Folke, P. Hawken, C. S. Holling, A. J. McMichael, D. Pimentel, and D. Rapport. 2000. Managing our
   Environmental Portfolio. Bioscience 50 (2): 149 - 55
4. Diamond, P. A., and J. A. Hausman. 1994. Contingent Valuation: Is Some Number Better than No Number? Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (4):
   45-64
5. Gordon, H. S. 1954. The Economic Theory of a Common-Property Resource. The Journal of Political Economy 62 (2): 124-42
6. Hanemann, M. 1994. Valuing the Environment through Contingent Valuation. Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (4)
7. Harrison, D., Jr. 2002. Tradable Permits of Air Quality and Climate Change in T. Tietenberg and H. Folmer, eds. The International Yearbook
   of Environmental and Resource Economics: 2002/2003. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK
8. Heal, G. 2002. Globalization and BiodiversitySocial Science Research Network Publication
   http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/delivery.cfm/ SSRN_ID355141_code021219670.pdf?abstractid=355141
9. Krishnan, R., J. Harris, and N. Goodwin, eds. 1995. A Survey of Ecological Economics. Island Press
10. Krutilla, J. V. 1967. Conservation Reconsidered. American Economic Review 57 (4): 777-786
11. Ostrom, E. 1990. Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action. Cambridge University Press, New York
12. Palmer, K., W. E. Oates, and P. R. Portney. 1995. Tightening Environmental Standards: The Benefit-Cost or the No-Cost Paradigm?
    Journal of Economic Perspectives 9 (4): 119-32
13. Porter, M. E., and C. van der Linde. 1995. Toward a New Conception of the Environment-Competitiveness Relationship. Journal of Economic
    Perspectives 9 (4): 97-118
14. Portney, P. R. 1994. The Contingent Valuation Debate: Why Economists Should Care. Journal of Economic Perspectives 8 (4): 3-17
15. Solow, R. 1994. An Almost Practical Step Toward Sustainability in E. a. R. Commission on Geosciences, ed. Assigning Economic Value to Natural
    Resources. National Academy Press. http://books.nap.edu/books/0309051436/html/19.html#pagetop
16. Stavins, R. 2002. Lessons from the American Experiment with Market-Based Environmental Policies. Cambridge, MA: Kennedy School of
    Government Publication RWP01-032. http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=285998
17. Swallow, S. K. 1996. Economic Issues in Ecosystem Management: An Introduction and Overview. Agricultural and Resource Economics Review
    25 (2): 83-100. http://agecon.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/detailview.pl?paperid=2938
18. Tietenberg, T. 1998. Disclosure Strategies for Pollution Control. Environmental & Resource Economics 11 (3-4): 587-602
19. —. 2002. The Tradable Permits Approach to Protecting the Commons: What Have We Learned? Pages 197-232 in E. Ostrom, T. Dietz, and N. Dolsak,
    eds. The Drama of the Commons. National Academey Press, Washington, DC

This list was compiled from e mail responses on the RESECON e mail list by
Dawn Cassandra Parker, Assistant Professor
Departments of Geography and Environmental Science and Policy
Center for Social Complexity
George Mason University