同学们好。非常高兴能在这里跟大家见面，由我来跟大家讲授资源经济学这门课程。

    新时期，绿色发展理念已经成为经济社会发展的重要遵循，而掌握绿色发展理念相关的经济学分析内容十分重要。资源经济学通过利用经济学的分析方法、理念、范式来认知自然资源配置问题，对于我们合理、高效地利用资源具有很强的指导意义。

   在本课程中，所涉及的自然资源主要包括能源、可循环资源、水资源、土地资源、农业资源、森林资源、可养殖性生物资源。

    对自然资源的经济学分析主要是如何通过自然资源在不同人群之间、不同代际之间进行分配方案的调整，最终实现自然资源的节约和经济产出的高效。自然资源日渐稀缺，对自然资源的节约利用十分重要。

   资源经济学这门课的主要特色是采用双语方式，让同学们更多地理解一些专业词汇，掌握核心专业概念，增强看待资源的经济学分析思维，强化资源作为重要投入品的投入产出效率理念，深化资源代际分配的公平观念。

1. 了解自然资源的稀缺性现状。
2. 掌握自然资源有效配置的经济学原则。
3. 认识到现阶段自然资源无效配置的若干原因。
4. 掌握自然资源实现有效配置的一些基本对策。

•课堂讨论：回答1次计2分（最终成绩），10次为满分。学期回答次数前5名的同学获得3分加分权（计入总分），5-10名同学获得2分加分权（计入总分）。该项分数占比：20%。

•单元测试：共8单元，每2单元1次。该项分数占比：7.5%。

•线上讨论：8次参与为满分。该项分数占比：7.5%。

•视频观看：线上资源观看完整度。该项分数占比：10%。

•课堂考勤：到课率占比：5%。缺勤一次扣1分，缺勤3次以上（含），本门课程不及格。

•期末考试：学习结束后，学生可以参加课程的最后考试。该项分数占比：50%。

Tom Tietenberg&Lynne Lewis,Environmental & Natural Resource Economics,Ninth Edition,Pearson Education, Inc.,2011.

    1. One current practice is to calculate the years remaining for a depletable resource by taking the prevailing estimates of current reserves and dividing it by current annual consumption. How useful is that calculation? Why?

    2.Should benefit–cost analysis play the dominant role in deciding the proportion of electric energy to be supplied by nuclear power? Why or why not?

    3.Glass bottles can be either recycled (crushed and re-melted) or reused. The market will tend to choose the cheapest path. What factors will tend to affect the relative cost of these options? Is the market likely to make the efficient choice? Are the “bottle bills” passed by many of the states requiring deposits on bottles a move toward efficiency? Why?

   4.What pricing system is used to price the water you use at your college or university? Does this pricing system affect your behavior about water use (length of showers, etc.)? How? Could you recommend a better pricing system in this circumstance? What would it be?

   5.Suppose a city finds that its express highways into the city are congested and it is considering two remedies: (1) imposing a congestion charge on all users of its expressways during the peak periods and (2) adding a couple of lanes to the existing expressways. Would these be expected to have the same effects on residential land use? Why or why not?

   6.“By applying modern technology to agriculture, the United States has become the most productive food-producing nation in the world. The secret to solving the world food security problem lies in transferring this technology to developing countries.” Discuss.

   7.Should U.S. national forests become “privatized” (sold to private owners)? Why or why not?

   8.Is the establishment of the 200-mile limit a sufficient form of government intervention to ensure that the tragedy of the commons does not occur for fisheries within the 200-mile limit? Why or why not?