All: Readings, Activities and Teaching Advice, and Media

The Economics of Inequality and the Environment

Environmental and Natural Resource Economics and Systemic Racism

Analyzing and Visualization of Data: A Team Project in an Undergraduate Course Evaluating Food Insecurity in U.S. Households

Valuing Identity in the Classroom: What Economics Can Learn from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education

Bringing the classroom to the real world: Field trips to marginalized neighborhoods

Recommendations for Contextualizing and Facilitating Class Conversations about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, Belonging, and Social Justice

Alternatives to the scarcity principle

Teaching about Diversity and Racism in Food Systems: An Example for Agricultural Economics and Related Departments

Adding Equity to Environmental Models, with Amanda Giang

Published: September, 2024. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 30:19.

Systemic Racism in Environmental Economics, with Jimena Gonzalez Ramirez and Sarah Jacobson

Published: November, 2023. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 35:15.

Galapagos

Published: July, 2014. Publisher: Radio Lab. Type: podcast. Duration: 1:03:00.

Ten Thousand Years

Published: May, 2014. Publisher: 99% Invisible. Type: podcast. Duration: 33:40.

The Use of Distributional Weights in Benefit–Cost Analysis: Insights from Welfare Economics

Emphasizing Distributional Impacts in Teaching Solutions to Market Failures

Kiwi vs. Predator

Published: October, 2025. Publisher: NPR Up First. Type: podcast. Duration: 24:20.

Does Environmental Cleanup Lead to Environmental Gentrification?, with Elaine Hill

Published: December, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 31:37.

Inequality Aversion for Climate Policy

Economists and the climate

Climate change mitigation under uncertainty and inequality: A classroom experiment

What Should We Be Teaching Students about the Economics of Climate Change: Is There a Consensus?

Making Learning about Climate Change Fun and Interactive

AC/DC: Unequal Access to Air Conditioning, with Kelly T. Sanders

Published: July, 2020. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 33:37.

Alternatives to the scarcity principle

The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons

The Equity-Efficiency Trade-off in Environmental Policy: Evidence from Stated Preferences

Climate Change and Energy Insecurity: A Growing Need for Policy Intervention

Who Will Pay for Legacy Utility Costs?

Targeting energy justice: Exploring spatial, racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in urban residential heating energy efficiency

Oil Development in Native America, with Angela Parker

Published: October, 2023. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 40:03.

Unveiling Hidden Energy Poverty, with Destenie Nock

Published: September, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 37:15.

Nukes & Solar & Wind, Oh My! (with Jennifer Granholm)

Published: August, 2022. Publisher: CAFE. Type: podcast. Duration: 56:00.

California Crude: Seeking a Just Transition in the Golden State, with Kyle Meng

Published: January, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 34:21.

Defining, Measuring, and Addressing Energy Poverty, with Tony Reames

Published: January, 2021. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 30:23.

Environmental justice beyond race: Skin tone and exposure to air pollution

Recent Findings and Methodologies in Economics Research in Environmental Justice

Environmental Justice: The Economics of Race, Place, and Pollution

Unequal exposure: An inclusive approach to teaching environmental justice

Inequality and Superfund sites: Using backward design, cooperative learning, and data integration in introductory environmental economics

Making introductory economics more relevant: Using personalized connections to introduce environmental economics

Bringing Environmental Justice into Government Rulemaking, with Ann Wolverton

Published: November, 2023. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 32:39.

Student activists are pushing back against big polluters — and winning

Published: October, 2023. Publisher: NPR Code Switch. Type: podcast. Duration: 38:37.

Sensing Air Pollution Exposure in New York City Schools, with Beia Spiller

Published: July, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 33:23.

Driving Toward Justice: Transportation and Equity, with Regan Patterson

Published: June, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 30:04.

Environmental Justice, Lala Ma

Published: March, 2021. Publisher: Gatton College - University of Kentucky. Type: video. Duration: 6:24.

Zoned for Resistance

Published: July, 2020. Publisher: Notes from America with Kai Wright. Type: podcast. Duration: 42:29.

The Economics of Environmental Justice, with Samuel Stolper and Catherine Hausman

Published: March, 2020. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 31:29.

Restoring Nature, Creating Wealth: Evidence from Rural Households in Africa

Income, inequality, and pollution: a reassessment of the environmental Kuznets Curve

Teaching development economics from a gender perspective

Money growing on trees: A classroom game about payments for ecosystem services and tropical deforestation

Coordinating Environmental and Trade Policy to Protect the Environment: A Pedagogical Approach

California’s GHG Cap-and-Trade Program and the Equity of Air Toxic Releases

Do environmental markets cause environmental injustice? Evidence from California’s carbon market

Who Wins from Emissions Trading? Evidence from California

The ethics of carbon offsetting

What Do Emissions Markets Deliver and to Whom? Evidence from Southern California’s NOx Trading Program

Coordinating Environmental and Trade Policy to Protect the Environment: A Pedagogical Approach

Carbon Offsets: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Published: August, 2022. Publisher: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Type: video. Duration: 23:37.

Experiments in Sustainable Development, with Kelsey Jack

Published: August, 2021. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 34:18.

Retrospectives: Tragedy of the Commons after 50 Years

Institutions and the Environment

Money growing on trees: A classroom game about payments for ecosystem services and tropical deforestation

A dynamic semester-long social dilemma game for economic and interdisciplinary courses

A History of America’s Public Lands, with John D. Leshy

Published: January, 2023. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 32:18.

The Rhino Hunter

Published: May, 2021. Publisher: Radio Lab. Type: podcast. Duration: 52:17.

Accessing Nature through Canada’s Parks, with Dawn Carr

Published: September, 2020. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 33:03.

Waste Land

Published: September, 2020. Publisher: NPR Planet Money. Type: podcast. Duration: 22:36.

Weighing Good Intentions

Published: August, 2010. Publisher: Radio Lab. Type: podcast. Duration: 22:49.

Community-Engaged Economics Research for the Clean Energy Transition

Unlocking Success: Key Lessons from Academia-Government Collaborations in Advancing Public Policy

Equity and Cost-Effectiveness in Valuation and Action Planning to Preserve Biodiversity

Wildfire Risk and Home Prices, with Lala Ma

Published: March, 2024. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 28:27.

Community–academic partnerships helped Flint through its water crisis

Water and Economics: Why We Need and Ought to Teach Water Economics in the Modern Economics Curriculum

Understanding Inequities in Access to Wastewater Systems, with Maura Allaire

Published: December, 2024. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 29:52.

The Effects of Dams on Tribal Lands, with Heather Randell

Published: February, 2024. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 33:59.

Understanding Water and Energy in the Navajo Nation, with Andrew Curley

Published: November, 2022. Publisher: Resource Radio. Type: podcast. Duration: 35:22.