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Unit 5: Abating Carbon Emissions part of Regulating Carbon Emissions
Robyn Smyth, Bard College; Gautam Sethi, Bard College; Curt Gervich, SUNY College at Plattsburgh
Students evaluate the EPA's Clean Power Plan in the context of Common but Differentiated Responsibility. This unit also introduces students to the idea that there are costs and benefits associated with the ...
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Impacts of climate change, Public policy , Environmental Science:Energy:Energy Policy , Environmental Science:Sustainability, Policy, Economics, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Public policy, Impacts of climate change, Greenhouse gas emissions, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Policy:Energy Policy
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Financial Incentives of Open Access Resource Overuse part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Activities
Chris McIntosh, University of Minnesota-Duluth
In this activiy when property rights are absent participants have financial incentive to take what they can get immediatly as opposed to waiting until the resource is more valuable. Adding strong property rights provides the proper finanacial incentives for students to wait to extract the resource when it is most valuable.
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Policy:Environmental Economics, Economics:Behavioral/Game Theory, Economics, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review
Exploring Easter Island Economics with Excel part of Integrate:Workshops and Webinars:Systems, Society, Sustainability and the Geosciences:Activities
Morris Coats, Nicholls State University
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Sustainability, Human Population, Policy:Environmental Economics, Economics
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review