Economics and the Analysis of Biology and Biodiversity
Kings College Cambridge, 2-3 September 2004
Day 1: 2nd September 2004
1A: INCENTIVES FOR CONSERVATION
Jeff Bennett and Georgina Usher
Private Sector Conservation Enterprises in Australia
Paul Missios
Biodiversity Prospecting, R&D, and the Financing of Conservation
1B: VALUATION
Paulo Nunes and Jeroen van den Bergh
Can people value protection against exotic marine species? Evidence from a joint TC-CV survey in the Netherlands
Roberto Martínez-Espiñeira
A Box-Cox double-hurdle model of wildlife valuation: the citizen's perspective
1C: AGRICULTURAL AND GENETIC RESOURCES
Ekin Birol, Melinda Smale and Ágnes Gyovai
Managing Agricultural Biodiversity in a Transitional Economy: An Analysis of Hungarian Family Farms
Anke Rojahn
The cost of conserving the last wild population of Coffea Arabica
Teluve Nagarajarao Prakash, John Mburu, Hanumantharao Chandrashekar and Degnet Abebaw
Analysis of Farmers' Willingness to Conserve Traditional Rice Varieties in the Western Ghats of South India
2A: WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
Daniel Rondeau
Compensation for Wildlife Damage: Habitat Conversion, Species Preservation and Local Welfare
Doris Behrens and Birgit Friedl
A Tourism Strategy Optimally Balancing Recreation and the Conservation of the Golden Eagle
2B: SPATIAL APPROACHES
Rolf Groeneveld, Carla Grashof-Bokdam and Ekko van Ierland
Metapopulations in agricultural landscapes: a spatially explicit tradeoff analysis
Juan Robalino and Alexander Pfaff
Spatial Interactions in Forest Clearing: Deforestation and Fragmentation in Costa Rica
2C: RESERVES
Mahmoud Sarhan, Mahmoud Hanafy and Moustafa Fouda
Economics and Sustainable Use of Samadai Reef "Dolphin House,"Marsa Alam, Red Sea , Egypt
Richard Hatfield
The Economic Value of the Mountain Gorilla Forests: Benefits, costs and their distribution amongst stakeholders
Mai-He Li and Nobert Kräuchi
Can existing reserves really preserve current levels of biological diversity? - An overview
3A: BIODIVERSITY POLICIES
Gary Stoneham, Vivek Chaudhri, Loris Strappazzon and Arthur Ha
Auctioning biodiversity conservation contracts: an empirical analysis
Jürgen Meyerhoff and Alexandra Dehnhardt
The European Water Framework Directive and Economic Valuation of Wetlands
3B: GM REGULATION
Laura Darby and Andreas Kontoleon
Alternative Payment Vehicles in Contingent Valuation: The Case of Genetically Modified Foods
Tim Swanson and Timo Goeschl
Managing the Pace of Technological Change: The Case of GMOs
3C: CONFLICTS
Klas Sander and Manfred Zeller
Forest Resource Management between Conservation and Poverty Alleviation - experiences from Madagascar
Jaroslav Mysiak, Kathleen Schwerdtner and Irene Ring
Comparative Analysis of the Conflicts between Carp Pond Farming and the Protection of Otters (Lutra Lutra) in Upper Lusatia and South Bohemia
Ananya Mukherjee
Livelihood, Conservation and Conflict over Natural Resources within Protected Areas (A case study of Kanha national park)
Day 2: 3rd September 2004
4A: VALUATION
Nir Becker, Yael Choresh, Moshe Inbar and Ofer Bahat
A Bio-Economic Valuation of Protecting Vultures: Estimating the Economic Benefit of Viewing Vultures (Gyps fulvus) and some policy implications of valuation techniques
Mike Christie, Nick Hanley, John Warren, Tony Hyde, Kevin Murphy and Robert Wright
A valuation of biodiversity in the UK using choice experiments and contingent valuation
4B: TRADE AND BIODIVERSITY
Rafat Alam and N.V. Quyen
International Trade and its Impact on Biological Diversity
Ben Groom, Rupert Gatti, Timo Goeschl, Timothy Swanson
The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem
4C: INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS
Tom Dedeurwaerdere
Biodiversity and intellectual property law: the stake of a theory of reflexive governance
Vijesh Krishna and Unai Pascual
Optimal Compensation for Indigenous Knowledge Holders in Biodiversity Contracts: A Case Study from India
5A: WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT
Anders Skonhoft
The cost, or benefit, of predation. An analysis of the recent wolf re-colonisation in Scandinavia
E.J. Milner-Gulland, R. Damania and D.J. Crookes
A BIOECONomic Analysis of Bushmeat Hunting
5B: RESOURCES
Yacov Tsur and Amos Zemel
Resource exploitation, biodiversity and ecological events
Stéphanie Aulong, Charles Figuières and Robert Lifran
Majority voting in a negotiation process for biodiversity protection
5C: VALUES
Amlan Majumder
Economics, Ethics and an Index of Nonhuman Development
Karine Gil de Weir, Enrique Weir, Clark Casler and Sara Aniyar
Ecological Functions and Economic Value of the Neotropic Cormorant (Phalacrocorax brasilianus) in Los Olivitos Estuary , Venezuela
Amjath Babu and S. Suryaprakash
The Quasi-Existence Value of Forestry Biodiversity: A Theoretical and Empirical Overview
6A: POLICY IMPLEMENTATION
Daan van Soest and Jana Vyrastekova
Enforcement of in situ biodiversity conservation: Higher fines, or higher conviction probabilities?
Stuart Whitten and Jeff Bennett
Economics for Natural Resources Management: Bio-economic Modelling, Policy Threshold Analysis and Transaction Costs
Mitesh Kataria
A Cost-Benefit analysis of introducing the non-native species signal crayfish
6B: BIODIVERSITY IN AGRICULTURE/ FORESTRY
Roger Sedjo
Genetically Modified Trees, Regulation and Biodiversity Conservation
Salvatore Di Falco and Jean-Paul Chavas
Crop Biodiversity, Farm Productivity and the Management of Environmental Risk
Paula Horne, Peter Boxall and Wiktor Adamowicz
Multiple-Use Management of Forest Recreation Sites: A Spatially Explicit Choice Experiment
6C: CONFLICTS
Christina Rüffer
A result-orientated payment scheme for the conservation of agrobiodiversity - An interdisciplinary approach
Ernst Nuppenau and M. Helmer
Biodiversity Management through Compensation Payments for Landscape Elements: On Spatial Aspects in Bio-Economic Modelling to Get Cost Effectiveness
Jan Tore Solstad
The Assymetrical Spatial Distribution of Costs and Benefits of Wildlife Management: The Case of Moose versus Wolf in Norway
