Economics and the Environment

Contact Information

Phone: 800-338-1192

Street Address: 1140 Avenue of the Americas
New York, New York 10036

Last Updated: 11-21-2004

Reviewer Comments

General Content
"Includes lessons on topics not usually found, i.e. 'the right amount of wilderness, the cost of pollution'."

"One sided—business- and profit-oriented."

Presentation
"Red and black color format is very distracting."

Pedagogy
Lacks action plan for students.

Teacher Usability
Since economics is required, this allows one to infuse environmental issues into it.

Focus on Communities
"One of the few well thought out integrated curricula I have seen. This really is true integration of economics and environmental science."

"Narrow focus on advanced economic issues."

EE Program/Resource ss Details

Provided by: National Council on Economic Education

Description: Economics and the Environment (1996, 239 p.) examines the relationship between natural resources (air, water, the ozone layer, fossil fuels, minerals, and wildlife, for example) and economics, and offers lessons that apply an economic approach to analyzing environmental problems. Twenty lessons are organized around seven units: the environment and the economy, getting the most from natural resources, economic roots of environmental problems, finding solutions when markets cannot, implementing environmental solutions, management of natural resource stocks, and the economic development of a finite environment. Extensive glossary is included.

Program/Resource Type: Curriculum

Cost: $34.95

EE Focus: Economics, Energy, Natural Resources/Res. Mgmt.

Academic Focus: History/Social Sciences, Science, Interdisciplinary

Counties Served: Statewide

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Report Card

Overall Grade
General Content
Presentation
Pedagogy
Teacher Usability
Community

B+
A-
B
B+
B+
B

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History/Social Science
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