EPEQ - Economic Performance and Environmental Quality

This is a data base I have created over the years for teaching purposes, as well as for public talks on the relationship between economic growth and major indicators of environmental quality. I am moving it here to provide a more accessible version for interested users. 

My students do an assignment like this one to help them explore and understand what the data show.

ORIGINAL EPEQ FILES

These files were put together in the 1990s, and are in an older form of Excel (.xls, not .xlsx). as they get updated I'll replace them. 

WATER QUALITY
Contaminant Levels in the Great Lakes:

• Lake Superior
• Lake Michigan
• Lake Huron
• Lake Erie
• Lake Ontario
• All Great Lakes

Water Quality Readings in 2 Rivers Near Guelph

• Rivers near Guelph

AIR QUALITY - CANADA
Contaminant Concentrations in Large Canadian Cities Over Time

• Total Suspeded Particulates
• Sulphur Dioxide
• Lead
• Carbon Monoxide
• Nitrogen Oxides
• Ozone

AIR QUALITY - USA

• Number of monitoring stations out of compliance annually (CO, O3)
• New car and light truck emission standards

INTERNATIONAL

• Selected air and water quality indicators, China
• Amazon deforestation measures
• Global megacities
• Per capita GDP and Water Pollution 

UPDATED EPEQ FILES - 2013

These were updated and improved in 2013.

AIR EMISSIONS - CANADA

• Trends by Industry and Contaminant type

AIR EMISSIONS, VEHICLE USE & INCOME - USA

• Trends by contaminant type, 1945-1998
• US vehicle miles traveled

AIR EMISSIONS & INCOME - EUROPE

• Trends by country and contaminant type

AIR AND WATER QUALITY  - CHINA

• Trends by major city

AIR QUALITY AND INCOME - WORLD CITIES

• Major air contaminants and per capita income

AMAZON DEFORESTATION

• Mean rate of gross deforestation
  

RESOURCE PRICES

• Nominal and real prices of metals over time

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COURSE LECTURES - ECONOMIC GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Here are the powerpoint slides for the first 8 lectures for my course Economic Growth and Environmental Quality (ECON*2100). Note that some lectures with embedded videos had very large file sizes so the videos were left out.

• Week 1 Lecture 1
• Week 1 Lecture 2
• Week 1 Lecture 3
• Week 2 Lecture 1
• Week 2 Lecture 2
• Week 2 Lecture 3
• Week 3 Lecture 1
• Week 3 Lecture 2

Here are the lectures on Climate Science and Economics

• Climate Change: Science Issues
• Climate Change: Economics Issues