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Environmental Economics Course: Topics, Lectures, and Seminars

This course summary provides an overview of the content covered in the Environmental Economics course, including lectures and seminars on various topics such as environmental quality and income, pollution, energy subsidies, mitigation and adaptation, climate policies, rainforest preservation, infrastructure supply, urban transport, and more.

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Environmental Economics Course: Topics, Lectures, and Seminars

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  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 publishedonthewebsite • Reading list • Guidance to exam: Youcangenerallyconsiderthe material mentioned in thispresentation as the «core» material thatyouneed to prepare for theexam. The otheritemsonthereading list/curriculum is background material thatyoualsoought to know, and thatwill supplement thecore material.

  3. Summaryofcontent from lectures and seminars • Lecture 1: Introduction to thecourse • Lecture 2: Basic relationships betweenenvironmentalquality and incomealong a normal growthpath • Relates to seminar 1 • Also, note onenvironment and growth • Lecture 3: Air and water pollution in LICs • Relates to seminar 2 • Also to note onvalueoflife ( valuationusing VSL versus QALY)

  4. Content ofcourse (cont.) • Lecture 4: Energy subsidies • Relates to seminar 3 • Refersspecifically to empiricalresults from de Beers and Strand • Also, to analytical (politicaleconomy) modelwithcorruption (Strand) • Lecture 5: Relationships betweenmitigation and adaptation in LICs • Relates to seminar 4 • Also to analytical seminar note

  5. Content ofcourse (cont.) • Lecture 6: Mitigation in LICs (focusingon CDM, taxvscapspolities) • Lecture 7: Paris Agreement • Relates to seminar 5 • Also, modelofunconditional and conditional NDC (published) • Lecture 8: Aviation and shipping in a climate policy context • Lecture 9: Rainforest preservationpolicies • Relates to seminar 6

  6. Course overview (cont.) • Lecture 10: Rainforest value • Relates to seminar 7 • Analytical note on marginal and averageforestvalues • Lecture 11: Infrastructuresupply, and growthimpacts via energy subsidies • Lecture 12: Urban transport in LICs • Relates to seminar 8

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

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