Web links

Some Useful websites for environmental economists (URLs correct as of August 2019)

Organizations

European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
www.eaere.org

Association of Environmental and Resource Economists
www.aere.org

Australian Association of Agricultural and Resource Economists
www.aares.org.au

BioEcon network (jobs, conferences, and research on the economics of biodiversity)
www.bioecon-network.org/

International Society for Ecological Economics
http://www.isecoeco.org/ 

Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (US)
http://www.aaea.org/

La RED IBEROAMERICANA DE ECONOMÍA ECOLÓGICA (Ibero-American Network of Environmental Economics)
http://www.redibec.org/   

Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies (Japan)
http://www.seeps.org/   

The South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics
http://www.sandeeonline.org/   

UK Network of Environmental Economists
https://www.eftec.co.uk/homeh

Asociación de Economía Ecológica en España – ECOECOES (Spanish Environmental Economics Association)
http://www.ecoecoes.es/

Asociatión Hispano-Portuguesa de Economía de los Recursos Naturales y Ambientales - AERNA (Hispano-Portuguese Association for Resource and Environmental Economics)
http://www.aerna.org/

The Latin American and Caribbean Association of Environmental and Resource Economists - ALEAR (Asociación Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Economistas Ambientales y de Recursos Naturales)
https://www.laere.org

CREE –The Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group
https://sites.google.com/view/creeaacere/

The East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE)
http://www.eaaere.org/    

C-FARE – The council on Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics
http://www.cfare.org/   

NZARES – New Zealand Agricultural & Resource Economics Society
http://www.nzares.org.nz/  

NAREA – The North-eastern Agricultural & Resource Economics Association
http://www.narea.org/  

Literature

Search for journal articles and conference papers
http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/

Massive database of discussion papers in all areas of economics.
http://repec.org/

Social Science Research Network - search for journal articles and working papers
http://ssrn.com/   

Blogs

Environmental Economics blog by Tim Haab and John Whitehead
http://www.env-econ.net/   

Robert Stavin’s blog on an economic view of the environment
http://www.robertstavinsblog.org/   

Environmental Valuation & Cost-Benefit News
http://www.envirovaluation.org/  

Environmental and Urban Economics by Matthew Kahn and Cong Sun
http://greeneconomics.blogspot.com/   

Greed, Green & Grains: Economics, Environment & Agriculture by Michael Roberts
http://greedgreengrains.blogspot.com/  

Ecology and Economics: Cross-Disciplinary Thoughts by Dave Iverson
http://forestpolicy.typepad.com/ecoecon/  

Data sources

World Bank Environment data
http://data.worldbank.org/topic/environment

Trends in carbon trading globally:
https://icapcarbonaction.com/en/

Map of countries with carbon taxes globally:
https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/

International research on biodiversity decline:
https://www.ipbes.net/

Government environmental agencies and environment ministries

The World Bank. Look at their Environment topic section.
http://www.worldbank.org/

US Environmental Protection Agency – the main federal regulator. Also includes access to research papers by EPA staff.
http://www.epa.gov/

National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada)
http://nrt-trn.ca/

European Commission – links to EU Ministries, Agencies involved in Environmental Economics
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/links.htm  

European Commission website with many studies on applying environmental economics to policy analysis.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/enveco/studies.htm 

European Commission website on regulatory analysis framework, including CBA.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/index_en

Scottish Environmental Protection Agency
www.sepa.org.uk

UK Department for the Environment
http://www.defra.gov.uk/

UK Department of Energy and Climate Change
www.decc.gov.uk

General website on environmental policy in Scotland
http://www.environment.scotland.gov.uk/default.aspx

Policy relevant research sites

Resources for the Future website – great for policy analysis in environment, energy, and natural resources
https://www.rff.org/

General research on biodiversity, including Payment for Ecosystem Services
http://www.bioversityinternational.org/research.html

On trading incentives for environmental quality
https://www.ufz.de/index.php?en=43278/

Nordic Council of Minsters study on Payment for Ecosystem Services schemes
https://www.norden.org/en/publication/payment-and-management-ecosystem-services

Centre for Blue Economy website on marine economics
http://www.miis.edu/academics/researchcenters/blue-econ

Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei - Italy’s non-profit research institution focused on studying sustainable development and global governance.
http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=62   

Brookings Institution: Environment and Energy
https://www.brookings.edu/topic/energy-industry/

PERC: Property and Environment Research Center
http://perc.org/  

Center for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
http://www.cere.se/    

Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics (Sweden)
http://www.beijer.kva.se/   

Center for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa
https://www.adaptation-undp.org/partners/centre-environmental-economics-and-policy-africa-ceepa

Specific environmental regulation and management sites

European Commission site on the Water Framework Directive
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/water/water-framework/index_en.html

Website of UK climate impacts programme
http://www.ukcip.org.uk/

European Commission website on chemicals regulation.
http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/reach/reach_intro.htm

Murray darling Basin Commission in Australia, looking at multiple uses of a very major water resource.
http://www.mdba.gov.au/

Environmental valuation

UK National Ecosystems Assessment website
http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org/

EVRI data base of valuation studies
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/publications/evri.htm

Map of countries with carbon taxes globally:
https://carbonpricingdashboard.worldbank.org/

International research on biodiversity decline:
https://www.ipbes.net/

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