Montpellier (France), May 22-25, 2003

 

Thursday May 22

8.40 - 9.00 Welcome coffee

9.00 - 9.15 Opening

9.15 - 10.00 Keynote (TBA)

10.00 - 10.20 Coffee break

10.20 - 12.20 Plenary session 1: Theorical Aspects of Contract Mechanisms

10.20 - 11.00 T. Lin, T. Goeschl: "Optimal Contract Design Under Incomplete Information Asymmetry and Implications on Biodiversity Contracts" (Suggested Discussant: Tidball)

11.00 - 11.40 E. Motte, J. Salles, L. Thomas: " Incentive Policies to Farmers For Conserving Biodiversity in Forested Areas in Developing Countries " (SD: Lin)

11.40 - 12.20 J. Krawczyk, R. Lifran, M. Tidball: " Use of Coupled Incentives to Improve Adoption of Environment Friendly Technologies " (SD: Motte)

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00 Parallel sessions

Parallel session 1: Incentives in Forestry and Wildlife Conservation

14.00 - 14.30 J. Montero, C. Perrings: " Biodiversity Conservation in Common Property Forestlands " (SD: Horne)

14.30 - 15.00 A. Johannesen, A. Skonhoft: " Human-wildlife Conflicts Under Different Management Regimes " (SD: Montero)

15.00 - 15.30 A. Johannesen: " Designing Integrated Conservation and Development Projects: Hunting Incentives and Human Welfare with Numerical Illustrations from Serengeti " (SD: Skonhoft)

15:30 -16:00 P. Horne: " Public Demand for Biodiversity in Private Forests " (SD: Johannesen)

Parallel session 2: International Aspects of Contracting

14.00 - 14.40 Van Soest, M. Tidball, K. Erdlenbruch: " Renewable Resource management and Skill Heterogeneity: A Two Country Dynamic Game " (SD: Swanson)

14.40 - 15.20 Claude : "North-South Contracting(prelim.)" (SD: Van Soest)

15.20 - 16.00 T. Swanson, T. Goeschl et al.: " North-South contracting over genetic resources " (SD: Claude)

16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break

16.20 - 17.40 Plenary session 2: The Emergence of Regulatory Mechanisms

16.20 - 17.00 J. Noailly, J. Van den Bergh, C. Withagen: " Spatial Evolution of Social Norms in a Common-Pool Resource Game " (SD: Vyrastekova)

17.00 - 17.40 J. Vyrastekova, D. Van Soest: " Natural Resource Management in Socially Complex Societies: An Experimental Study " (SD: Noailly)

Diner

 

Friday May 23

9.00 - 10.00 Partner meeting

10.00 - 10.20 Coffee break

10.20 - 12.20 Plenary session 3: Empirical Aspects of Contract Design. The case of Crop diversity

10.20 - 11.00 T. Prakash, D. Virchow: " Effects of Incentive Systems on On-Farm Management of Crop Genetic Resources and Required Contract Designs: The Case of Rice in India " (SD: Wale)

11.00 - 11.40 E. Birol, T. Goeschl, T. Swanson: " Analyzing the Relationship Between Economic Development and Farmers' Demand for Agricultural Biodiversity: The case of Semi-Subsistence Small Farms in Hungary " (SD: Prakash )

11.40 - 12.20 E. Wale, J. Mburu, D. Virchow: " Incentives, Opportunity Costs and Contract Design for On-Farm Conservation in Ethiopia " (SD: Birol)

Lunch

14.00 - 16.00 Parallel sessions

Parallel session 3: Issues of Implementation

14.00 - 14.40 B. Elyakime, P. Loisel: " Bien public environnemental, quelle gestion? " (SD: Wätzold)

14.40 - 15.20 R. Simpson: " Internalizing Ecological Externalities: Some Surprising Results from Partial Combinations " (SD: Elyakime)

15.20 - 16.00 F. Wätzold, M. Drechsler: " Spatial Differentiation of Compensation Payments for Biodiversity-Enhancing Land Use Measures " (SD: Simpson)

Parallel session 4: Related Issues in Conservation

14.00 - 14.40 A. Skonhoft, C. Armstrong: " Conservation of Wildlife. A Bio-Economic Model of a Wildlife Reserve Under the Pressure of Habitat Destruction and Harvesting Outside the Reserve " (SD: Bennett)

14.40 - 15.20 R. Bargiacchi: " Uncertainty, "Saving Rationing" and Resource Conservation " (SD: Armstrong)

15.20 - 16.00 J. Bennett: " Private Sector Involvement in Nature Conservation: the Case of Wetland Care Australia " (SD: Bargiacchi)

16.00 - 16.20 Coffee break

16.20 - 17.40 Plenary session 4: Empirical Studies of Contract Mechanisms

16.20 - 17.00 S. Pagiola, P. Agostini, C. de Haan, M. Ibrahim: " Contracting For Biodiversity Conservation in Agricultural Landscapes " (SD: Di Falco)

17.00 - 17.40 S. Di Falco, C. Perrings: " Cooperative Production and Crop Diversity Conservation " (SD: Pagiola)

Diner

 

Saturday May 24

Field trip to the "Tour du Valat" in the Camargue