Introduction

Required

• Neher, Chapter 1.
• Solow, Robert M. (1974), "The Economics of Resources or the Resources of Economics," American Economic Review, May. (An outstanding non-technical overview of the big issues in exhaustible resource economics.)

Optional

• Kamien and Schwartz, Appendix A. (Reviews the calculus behind microeconomics)
• Kamien and Schwartz, Appendix B. (Reviews differential equations)
• Hardin, Garrett (1968), "The Tragedy of the Commons," Science, 162, pp. 1243-1248, 13 Dec 1968. (A classic article explaining the common property problem from the point of view of a biologist. Has been widely read and very influential.)
• Kreps, David M. (1990), A Course in Microeconomic Theory , Princeton: Princeton University Press, Appendix 1. (Reviews constrained optimization; read if you're rusty at micro.)
• Birkhoff, Garrett and Gian-Carlo Rota (1978), Ordinary Differential Equations, New York: Wiley, Chapters 1 and 5. (A deeper, but very readable, treatment of differential equations.)