From the inbox:
I have accepted a faculty position ... and will be teaching an environmental economics course for the first time. I wanted to see if you had any recommendations for a textbook to be used in an environmental course without an intermediate microeconomics prerequisite. This class was designed to appeal to economics and non-economics majors and students are only required to take introduction to economics ... prior to this course. ... Do you have any recommendations for other intro texts, or would you use a standard text and stress intuition over math?
My reply:
I'm using Tietenberg and Lewis, Environmental Economics and Policy, this semester in a course with no prerequisites. The book is full of stuff so I go really slow. So far I've only covered chapters 1 - 4, 14. The four part outline is 1. benefit-cost analysis, 2. environmental economics, 3. natural resource economics and 4. sustainability. There is an exam on Friday and then I'll start section 3 next week.
Are there any other good suggestions?
