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XX ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE
Land-use, Agriculture and Biodiversity: Spatial and Temporal Issues |
12 - 14 September 2018 King’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom |
WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER |
DAY 1: THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER |
DAY 2: FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER |
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14.00 - 19.30 REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COCKTAIL Kings College |
7.45 - 8.45 |
Breakfast | 7.45 - 8.45 |
Breakfast |
8.00 - 8.45 |
Registration | 8.00 - 8.45 |
Checkout | |
8.45 - 9.00 |
Welcome Address |
8.45 - 9.00 |
Final Announcements | |
9.00 - 10.00 |
Key note lecture 1 | 9.00 - 10.00 |
Key note lecture 2 | |
10.00 - 10.30 |
Coffee break | 10.00 - 10.30 |
Coffee break | |
10.30 - 12.30* |
Parallel Sessions A1 - A4 |
10.30 - 12.30 |
Parallel Sessions D1 - D4 |
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12.30 - 13.30 |
Lunch | 12.30 - 13.30 |
Lunch | |
13.30 - 15.00 |
Parallel Sessions B1 - B4 |
13.30 - 15.00 |
Plenary Policy Session 2 |
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15.00 - 15.30* |
Coffee break | 15.00 - 15.30 |
Coffee break | |
15.30 - 17.00 |
Parallel Sessions C1 - C4 | 15.30 - 17.00 |
Parallel Sessions E1 – E4 | |
17.00 - 18.30 |
Plenary Policy Session 1 | |||
18.30 - 19.30 |
BIOECON internal meetings | |||
19.15 - 20.00 |
Pre-dinner Drinks | |||
20.00 - 22.00 |
Social Dinner | |||
| * : Parallel workshop: Land Use Practices in the 21st Century. | ||||
Wednesday 12 September 2018
8:30 - 18:00 BIOECON – Osnabrück Pre-workshop on the Role of Social Preferences in Promoting Conservation Behaviour Kings College
14:00 – 19:30 Registration Conference Office
18:00 - 19:30 Welcome Cocktail Back Lawn
Thursday 13 September 2018
08:00 – 08:45 Registration Conference Office
08:45 – 9:00 OPENING BIOECON XX and Welcome Address: Ben GROOM
09:00 – 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 1 Keynes Hall
Chair: Salvatore DI FALCO
Keynote Address
Douglas GOLLIN, University of Oxford, UK
In situ conservation of agricultural genetic resources: Challenges from the grass-roots up
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break Chetwynd Room
10:30 – 12:30: BIOECON PARALLEL WORKSHOP PART I: Keynes Hall
Land Use Conservation in the 21st Century. Population, Development and Global Public Goods
funded by MAVA LAND USE FUTURES
Invited speakers and participants, BIOECON participants also welcome
Part I: Conservation in the 21st Century
Chair: Susanna HECHT
Mark WILLIAMS, Leicester University, UK
Conservation in the Anthropocene
Discussant - Fangyuan Hua, Cambridge University, UK
Oscar VENTER – University of North British Columbia, USA
Conservation: Protected Areas and Pressures
Discussant - Paul Ferraro, John Hopkins University, USA
Tim SWANSON – Graduate Institute of International Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Land, Population and Policy
Discussant – Laura Diaz Anado, Cambridge University, UK
General Discussion with Panel
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS A1 – A4
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSION A1: Experiments and the Environment
Chair: Fabian THOMAS Keynes Seminar Room
Marc N. CONTE, Fordham University, USA
Information Access, Conservation Practice Choice, and Rent Seeking in Conservation Procurement Auctions: Evidence from a Laboratory Experiment
Discussant: Justin Dijk
Justin DIJK, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands
Analysing group contract design using a lab and a lab-in-the-field threshold public good experiment
Discussant: Mirthe Boomsma
Mirthe BOOMSMA, Tilburg University, Netherlands
Developing a green habit: Stimulating apartment building residents to sort their household waste
(please contact M.A.Boomsma@uvt.nl for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Fabian Thomas
Fabian THOMAS, University of Osnabrück, Germany,
Greening the Common Agricultural Policy – Insights from a field experiment in Lower Saxony, Germany
Discussant: Marc N. Conte
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSION A2 – Spatial issues in Biodiversity Conservation I
Chair: George MARBUAH Beves Room
Ben GROOM, London School of Economics, UK
REDD+ as an area-based policy: evidence from the 2011 Moratorium on oil palm, timber and logging concessions in Indonesia
(please contact b.groom@lse.ac.uk for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Amanda Eigner
Amanda EIGNER, Institute for Agricultural Policy and Market Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Modelling impacts of structural changes on biodiversity through spatial land transformations based on an agronomy and policy
Discussant: Matt Cole
Matt COLE, Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK
Biodiversity and Economic Land Use
(please contact M.A.COLE.1@bham.ac.uk for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: George Marbuah
George MARBUAH, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Sweden
Economic Activity, Species Occurrence and Spread: Evidence from Satellite Imagery Data
Discussant: Ben Groom
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSION A3 - Natural Capital: Theory
Chair: Mabel TIDBALL Saltmarsh Reception Room
Eli FENICHEL, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, USA
Valuing Multiple Natural Capital Stocks Under Correlated Volatility
Discussant: Martin Quaas
Martin QUAAS, Kiel University, Germany
Insurance Value of Natural Capital
Discussant: Tanvir Hussain
Tanvir HUSSAIN, East West University, Bangladesh
Shadow-price valuation of natural capital under different conceptions of sustainability
Discussant: Mabel Tidball
Mabel TIDBALL, French National Institute for Agricultural Research - INRA, France
Ecosystem services, ecosystem disservices, and economic dynamics: is it always worth to conserve natural capital?
Discussant: Eli Fenichel
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSION A4 - Agriculture, Technology and Biodiversity
Chair: Carlo ORECCHIA Saltmarsh Dining Room
Chandan SINGHA, University of Delhi, India
Causal impact of the adoption of soil conservation measures on farm profit, revenue and variable cost in Darjeeling District, India
Discussant: Nicholas Tyack
Nicholas TYACK, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID), Switzerland
Local innovators in Uganda: Experimenting with improved seeds in a low adoption environment
Discussant: Esther Estruch-Bosch
Esther ESTRUCH-BOSCH, Universitat de Lleida, and Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain
Protecting biodiversity on farm land: Which type of agri-environmental measure does it better?
Discussant: Carlo Orecchia
Carlo ORECCHIA, Italian Ministry of the Environment and Bioversity International, Italy
Modelling agricultural biodiversity and land allocation in a general equilibrium framework. The case of maize and wheat in Ethiopia
Discussant: Chandan Singha
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Dining Hall
13:30-15:00: BIOECON PARALLEL WORKSHOP PART II Keynes Hall
Land Use Conservation in the 21st Century. Population, Development and Global Public Goods
Funded by MAVA LAND USE FUTURES. Invited speakers and participants. BIOECON participants also welcome.
Part II: Food Security and Conservation
Chair: Tim SWANSON, IHEID, Switzerland
Hans VAN MEIJL, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Conservation in Long Run
Discussant: Hugo Vallin, IIASA, Austria
Tamas KRISZTIN, IIASA, Austria
Conservation and Food Security
Discussant: Doug Gollin, Oxford University, UK
General Discussion with Panel
13:30-15:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS B1 - B4
13:30-15:00 PARALLEL SESSION B1 - Public Preferences for the Environment
Chair: Thiago FONSECA MORELLO Saltmarsh Reception Room
Luca PANZONE, Newcastle University, UK
Strategies to drive consistent sustainable consumption in retailing – Evidence from an online supermarket experiment
Discussant: Charles Palmer
Charles PALMER, London School of Economics, UK
Voter choice and issue salience: environmental preferences and the 2016 Presidential election
Discussant: Thiago Fonseca
Thiago FONSECA MORELLO, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
The effect of substitutes on preferences of Great Britain population for ecological de-intensification of agriculture
Discussant: Alistair Ulph
13:30 – 15.00 PARALLEL SESSION B2 – Forests I: Deforestation: Causes and Cures
Chair: Benedict PROBST Keynes Seminar Room 2
Derya KELES, Université de Lorraine and Université de Strasbourg, France
What drives the withdrawal of protected areas? Evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Discussant: David Heres
David HERES, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico
Economic returns to land use and deforestation in Mexico between 2002-2011: An econometric model of land use transitions
(please contact david.heres@cide.edu for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Benedict Probst
Benedict PROBST, University of Cambridge, UK
Can land rights prevent deforestation? Evidence from a large-scale titling initiative in the Brazilian Amazon
Discussant: Derya Keles
13:30-15:00 PARALLEL SESSION B3 – Natural Capital and Ecosystems
Chair: Moritz DRUPP Beves Room
Saudamini DAS, Institute of Economic Growth, India
Substitutability between built capital and natural capital: Has investment in cyclone adaptation made the storm protection by mangroves redundant?
(please contact sdas_28@yahoo.co.in for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Katrina Davis
Katrina DAVIS, ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, University of Queensland, Australia
A generalizable integrated natural capital methodology to prioritise investment in saltmarsh enhancement
Discussant: Moritz Drupp
Moritz DRUPP, University of Hamburg, Germany
Inter- and Intragenerational Distribution and the Valuation of Natural Capital
Discussant: Saudamini Das
13:30-15:00 PARALLEL SESSION B4 – Instruments I: Ecosystem Auctions
Chair: Patrice LOISEL Saltmarsh Dining Room
Nick HANLEY, University of Glasgow, UK
Spatial Coordination and Joint Bidding in Conservation Auctions
Discussant: Pengfei Liu
Pengfei LIU, University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, USA
Performance of Three Multi-Award Reverse Auction Mechanisms
Discussant: Patrice Loisel
Patrice LOISEL, French National Institute for Agricultural Research - INRA, France
Spatially Contiguous Land Management: a sealed bid auction format
Discussant: Nick Hanley
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break Chetwynd Room
15:30 – 17.00 PARALLEL SESSION C1-C4
15:30 – 17.00 PARALLEL SESSION C1 – Stated Preference I: Applications
Chair: Roland OLSCHEWSKI Keynes Seminar Room 2
Joshua AJETOMOBI, University of Swaziland, Swaziland
Potential impact of Climate Change on Yields of Cereals in Nigeria
Discussant: Pierre Courtois
Pierre COURTOIS, French National Institute for Agricultural Research - INRA, France
Accounting for spatially heterogeneous preferences while managing invasive species: a choice experiment
Discussant: Roland Olschewski
Roland OLSCHEWSKI, Swiss Federal Research Institute WSL, Switzerland
Bringing the neighbors in: A choice experiment on the influence of coordination and social norms on farmers’ willingness to accept agro-environmental scheme across Europe
(please contact roland.olschewski@wsl.ch for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Joshua Ajetomobi
15:30 – 17.00 PARALLEL SESSION C2 – Forests II: Management
Chair: Masson SOLENE Beves Room
Olli TAHVONEN, University of Helsinki, Finland
Economics of mixed-species forestry with ecosystem services
Discussant: Goytom Kahsay
Goytom KAHSAY, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Trust and Regulation of Forest Management: Micro-level evidence from Ethiopia
Discussant: Solène Masson
Solène MASSON, Aix-Marseille University, France
Environmental conservation program and poverty: evidence from the Brazilian Amazon
Discussant: Olli Tahvonen
15:30 – 17.00 PARALLEL SESSION C3 – Natural Resources Management I
Chair: Pauli LAPPI Saltmarsh Reception Room
Frank WÄTZOLD, Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
Ecological-economic modelling to assess the impact of organic farming on endangered grassland biodiversity
Discussant: Charles Figuieres
Charles FIGUIERES, Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France
A tale of two diversities
Discussant: Pauli Lappi
Pauli LAPPI, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
On the optimal extraction under asymmetric information over reclamation costs
(please contact pauli.lappi@unive.it for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Frank Wätzold
15:30 – 17.00 PARALLEL SESSION C4 - Preferences and Behaviour
Chair: Susana MOURATO Saltmarsh Dining Room
Salvatore DI FALCO, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Shocks and Risk Preferences Revisted – Causal inferences from panel data versus cross-sections
Discussant: Ann-Kathrin Koessler
Ann-Kathrin KOESSLER, University of Osnabrück, Germany
Policies as information carriers: (Potential) perceptional and behavioral changes due to environmental policies
(please contact akoessler@uos.de for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Susana Mourato
Susana MOURATO, London School of Economics, UK
Do biodiversity conservation videos cause pro-environmental spillover effects?
Discussant: Salvatore Di Falco
17:00 - 18:30 Plenary Panel Session 1 Keynes Hall
Panel title: “Lessons learned (if any?) from experimental evidence for the development of REDD+”
Chair / Moderator: Andreas Kontoleon, Cambridge University
Panelists:
Prof Julia Patricia GORDON JONES, School of Natural Sciences, Bangor University, UK
Dr Gabriela SIMONET, Center for Environmental Economics of Montpellier (CEE-M), French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), France and Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia
Prof William SUTHERLAND, Miriam Rothschild Professor of Conservation Biology, Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge, UK
Dr Sven WUNDER, Principal Scientist European Forest Institute (EFI) - Barcelona Office, Spain
18:30 – 19:30 BIOECON PARTNER MEETINGS
Scientific and Institutional Partners Meeting Beves Room
19:15-20:00 Pre-Dinner Drinks Back Lawn
20:00 - 22:00 CONFERENCE SOCIAL DINNER Dining Hall
Friday 14 September 2018
08:45 – 9:00 Final Announcements Keynes Hall
Ben GROOM
9:00 – 10:00 PLENARY SESSION 2 Keynes Hall
Chair: Andreas KONTOLEON
Keynote Address
Prof. Paul FERRARO, John Hopkins University, USA
Applying Behavioral Economics to Improve Environmental Programs: knowns and unknowns
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break Chetwynd Room
10:30 – 12:30 PARALLEL SESSIONS D1 - D4
10:30 – 12.30 PARALLEL SESSION D1 – Instruments II: PES and Ecosystem Services
Chair: Nick HANLEY Beves Room
Matthias BOESCH, Thünen Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics, Germany
Why do payments for watershed services emerge? A cross-country analysis of adoption contexts
(please contact matthias.boesch@thuenen.de for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Katsuya Tanaka
Katsuya TANAKA, Research Center for Sustainability and Environment, Shiga University, Japan
Predicting Farmers’ Responses to Flexible Bonus-based Agri-Environmental Payments: Empirical Findings from Rice Farming in Japan
Discussant: Anca Voia
Anca VOIA, Toulouse School of Economics, France
Are Conservation Programs Additional? Evidence from the French Grassland Conservation Program
Discussant: Nick Hanley
Nick HANLEY, University of Glasgow, UK
How best to pay landowners to control invasive species? Evidence from disease control programs in Finland
Discussant: Matthias Boesch
10:30 – 12.30 PARALLEL SESSION D2 - Stated Preferences II: Applications and Methods
Chair: Jonathan QUARTEY Saltmarsh Reception Room
Marije SCHAAFSMA, University of Southampton, UK
Guidance for Deliberative Monetary Valuation studies
(please contact M.Schaafsma@soton.ac.uk for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Maria Loureiro
Maria LOUREIRO, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Assessing preferences for wildfire prevention policies in Spain
Discussant: Thiago Fonseca Morello
Thiago FONSECA MORELLO, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil
Fire, tractors and health in the Amazon: incorporating heterogeneous preferences into the Hicks-Kaldor test
Discussant: Jonathan Quartey
Jonathan QUARTEY, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana
Harnessing local community preferences for biodiversity conservation in developing countries: Evidence from Ghana’s lake Bosomtwe basin
Discussant: Marije Schaafsma
10:30 – 12.30 PARALLEL SPECIAL SESSION D3 – Spatial Issues in Biodiversity Conservation II
Chair: Paula CULLEN Keynes Hall
Jasper MEYA, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
Environmental Inequality and Economic Valuation
Discussant: Maksym Polyakov
Maksym POLYAKOV, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Joining the dots versus growing the blobs: optimal spatial targeting of ecological restoration
Discussant: Zachary Turk
Zachary TURK, London School of Economics, UK
Localized pollutants and the use of clustering and dispersion as abatement strategies
Discussant: Paula Cullen
Paula CULLEN, Agriculture and Food Development Authority - TEAGASC , Ireland
Agri-environment scheme design and public goods: spatial match or mismatch
Discussant: Jasper Meya
10:30 – 12.30 PARALLEL SESSION D4 - Natural Resources Management II: Wildlife and Endangered Species
Chair: Nir BECKER Saltmarsh Dining Room
Michael ‘T SAS-ROLFES, University of Oxford, UK
Can a legal horn trade save rhinos?
Discussant: Shreya Sethi
Shreya SETHI, Indian institute of Technology-Bombay , India
Does Trade Pave a Way for Wildlife Trafficking?
Discussant: Anders Skonhoft
Anders SKONHOFT, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
Regulation of Moose Hunting in Scandinavia: The Implications of Age-Structured Models
Discussant: Nir Becker
Nir BECKER, Tel Hai Academic College, Israel
Shark aggregation and tourism: Opportunities and challenges of an emerging phenomenon
Discussant: Michael ‘t Sas-Rolfes
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Dining Hall
13:30 – 15.00 Plenary Session 2 Keynes Hall
Panel title: “Resilience, Natural Disasters and Insurance for Ecosystems”
Chair/Moderator: Julia Touza, University of York
Panelists:
Dr Daniel CLARKE, Centre for Global Disaster Protection, Department for International Development, UK
Dr Richard BRETTON, University of Bristol, UK
Dr Swenja SURMINSKI, London School of Economics & Vivideconomics, UK
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break Chetwynd Room
15:30 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSIONS E1-E4
15:30 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSION E1 - International Environmental Agreements
Chair: Hans-Peter WEIKARD Beves Room
Nils DROSTE, Lund University, Sweden
Designing a global mechanism for intergovernmental biodiversity financing
Discussant: Rüdiger Pethig
Rüdiger PETHIG, University of Siegen, Germany
Self-enforcing biodiversity agreements with financial support from North to South
Discussant: Hans-Peter Weikard
Hans-Peter WEIKARD, Wageningen University, Netherlands
Does certification improve fisheries governance? The case of MSC certification of Western Central Pacific Tuna
Discussant: Nils Droste
15:30 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSION E2 – Climate Change and the Environment
Chair: Adrien LAGARDE Keynes seminar room 2
Anke LEROUX, Monash University, Australia
Coastal Dynamics and Adaptation to Uncertain Sea Level Rise: Optimal Portfolios for Salt Marsh Migration
Discussant: Carlo Orecchia
Carlo ORECCHIA, Italian Ministry of the Environment, Italy
The economic impact of soil and nutrient loss in Malawi
Discussant: Adrien Lagarde
Adrien LAGARDE, University of Bordeaux, France
How does MMEY mitigate bioeconomic effects of climate change for mixed fisheries
Discussant: Anke Leroux
15:30 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSION E3 - Game Theory Conservation and Biodiversity Management
Chair: Adam KLECZKOWSKI Saltmarsh Dining Room
Martin DRECHSLER, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany
Modelling the effectiveness and permanence of a compensation payment scheme for the conservation of a public environmental good
Discussant: Adam Kleczkowski
Adam KLECZKOWSKI, University of Strathclyde, UK
Weakest-link control of invasive species: Impacts of memory, bounded rationality and network structure in repeated cooperative games
Discussant: Martin Drechsler
Andrew BATE, University of York, UK
Incentives for effective biosecurity-related assurance schemes
Discussant: TBA
15:30 – 17:00 PARALLEL SESSION E4 - Issues in Inequality and the Environment
Chair: Alejandro LOME-HURTADO Saltmarsh Reception Room
Frank VENMANS, University of Mons, Belgium
Inequality Aversion and the Environment
Discussant: Rintaro Yamaguchi
Rintaro YAMAGUCHI, National Institute of Environmental Studies, Japan
Spatial Discounting of Ecosystem Services
(please contact rintaro.yamaguchi@gmail.com for a copy of the paper)
Discussant: Alejandro Lome-Hurtado
Alejandro LOME-HURTADO, University of York, UK
Environmental injustice in Mexico City: A spatial-quantile approach
Discussant: Frank Venmans
17:00 CONCLUSION OF BIOECON XX
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