1. ECON 3912/4912: Course Summary
Jon Strand
November 15, 2017

2. Course content Lectures and lecture notes (14) Seminars (8+2)
Notes to seminars published on the website
Reading list
Guidance to exam: You can generally consider the material mentioned in this presentation as the «core» material that you need to prepare for the exam. The other items on the reading list/curriculum is background material that you also ought to know, and that will supplement the core material.

3. Summary of content from lectures and seminars
Lecture 1: Introduction to the course
Lecture 2: Basic relationships between environmental quality and income along a normal growth path
Relates to seminar 1
Also, note on environment and growth
Lecture 3: Air and water pollution in LICs
Relates to seminar 2
Also to note on value of life ( valuation using VSL versus QALY)

4. Content of course (cont.)
Lecture 4: Energy subsidies
Relates to seminar 3
Refers specifically to empirical results from de Beers and Strand
Also, to analytical (political economy) model with corruption (Strand)
Lecture 5: Relationships between mitigation and adaptation in LICs
Relates to seminar 4
Also to analytical seminar note

5. Content of course (cont.)
Lecture 6: Mitigation in LICs (focusing on CDM, tax vs caps polities)
Lecture 7: Paris Agreement
Relates to seminar 5
Also, model of unconditional and conditional NDC (published)
Lecture 8: Aviation and shipping in a climate policy context
Lecture 9: Rainforest preservation policies
Relates to seminar 6

6. Course overview (cont.)
Lecture 10: Rainforest value
Relates to seminar 7
Analytical note on marginal and average forest values
Lecture 11: Infrastructure supply, and growth impacts via energy subsidies
Lecture 12: Urban transport in LICs
Relates to seminar 8

7. Course overview (cont.)
Lecture 13: Electricity-agriculture-groundwater nexus in India
Lecture 14: Mining