BIOECON

7th International BIOECON Conference on
"Economics and the Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity"

Kings College Cambridge , 20-21 September 2005.


PROGRAMME AND PAPERS

 

Day one: September 20th 2005 

PLENARY SESSIONS 1

Robert Deacon (University of California, Santa Barbara)

PARALLEL SESSION 1A: HABITAT FRAGMENTATION

F.V. Eppink and CA. Withagen
Species with divergent extinction risks in a spatial economy

C. Martijn van der Heide, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh, Ekko C. van Ierland and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes
Measuring the Economic Value of Two Habitat Defragmentation Policy Scenarios for the Veluwe, The Netherlands

Ram Pandit and Dr. David N. Laband
A Global Analysis of the Impact of Human Concentration on Species Fragility

PARALLEL SESSION 1B: VALUATION

Darla Hatton MacDonald and Mark Morrison
The value of habitat and agriculture in the Upper SE, South Australia

Shamir S, Zeitouni N and Shechter M.
Economic Valuation of Habitats - the case of Mediterranean Grove

Ekin Birol, Katia Karousakis, and Phoebe Koundouri
Using a Choice Experiment to Account for Preference Heterogeneity in Wetland Attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece

PARALLEL SESSION 2A: UNCERTAINTY

Martin Quaas, Stefan Baumgartner, Christian Becker, Karin Frank and Birgit Muller
Uncertainty and Sustainability in the Management of Semi-Arid Rangelands

Salvatore Di Falco, Jean-Paul Chavas, and Melinda Smale
Farmer Management of Production Risk on Degraded Lands: Wheat Diversity in Tigray Region , Ethiopia

Yacov Tsur and Amos Zemel
Welfare Measurement under Threats of Environmental Catastrophes

PARALLEL SESSION 2B: NUISANCE SPECIES AND DISEASE CONTROL

Eli P. Fenichel and Richard D. Horan
Jointly-Determined Ecological Thresholds and Economic Trade-Offs In Wildlife Disease Management

T. Christiaans, T. Eichner, R. Pethig
Optimal Pest control in agriculture

PLENARY SESSION

Steinar Engen ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology; NTNU)
Stochastic Population Dynamics in Ecology and Conservation

PARALLEL SESSION 3A: WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT

Charles F. Mason, Erwin H. Bulte, and Richard D. Horan
Extinction, Expectations and Speculation

G.C. K. Van Kooten
Elephant Economics in the Rough: An Ivory Trade Model

Anders Skonhoft and Jon Olaf Olaussen
The economics of a stage-structured wildlife population model

Atle G. Guttormsen, Dadi Kristofersson and Eric Nævdal
Managing Genetic Resources for Fun and Profit - The Role of the Interest Rate in Natural Selection

PARALLEL SESSION 3B: BIODIVERSITY CONTRACTS

Stéphanie Aulong, Charles Figuières, Sophie Thoyerz
North-south unconditional transfers and the protection of biodiversity

Per Stromber and Unai Pascaul
The stake of contract uncertainty in bioprospecting

Luca Di Corato
Bioprospecting, Market and The Conservation of Biodiversity: a theoretical framework

Timo Goeschl and Tun Lin
Endogenous information structures in environmental contracting

 

Day two: September 21st 2005  

PLENARY SESSION

Jon Conrad ( Cornell University )
Open Access and Extinction of the Passenger Pigeon in North America

PARALLEL SESSION 4A: SPATIAL MODELLING

Claire W. Armstrong and Anders Skonhoft
Managing a natural reserve with density independent species flow - a dynamic BIOECONomic model

Martin Drechsler, Frank Wätzold, Karin Johst, Holger Bergmann, and Josef Settele
A model-based approach for designing cost-effective compensation payments for conservation of endangered species in real landscapes

Joelle Noailly, Cees A. Withagen, Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Spatial evolution of social norms in a common-pool resource game

PARALLEL SESSION 4B: VALUATION

Eeva Soini and Paula Horne
Status quo bias in choice experiment method - a case study of forest owners' acceptance of biodiversity conservation contracts

Eric Ruto
Valuing Animal Genetic Resources: A Choice Modelling Application to Indigenous Cattle in Kenya

Arianne T. de Blaeij, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, and Jeroen C.J.M. van den Bergh
Individual Preferences or Marine Ecosystem Quality, Attribute Based Methods and Shell Fishery in the Dutch Wadden Sea

PARALLEL SESSION 5A: INSTITUTIONS AND NORTH-SOUTH RELATIONSHIPS

Stefan Jungcurt, Martina Padmanabhan, Christoph Klockenbrink, Augustin Berghöfer
Biocomplexity - Conceptual Challenges of Institutional Analysis in Biodiversity Governance

Tom Dedeurwaerdere
The Institutional Economics of Sharing Biological Information

Paul Missios and Halis Murat Yildiz
The Role of MFN under Asymmetries in Environmental Standards

PARALLEL SESSION 5B: BIODIVERSITY IN AGRICULTURE

A. Miettinen and A. Huhtala
Biodiversity and economic incentives in agriculture Integrating bird fauna values into decision-making

Eric Van Dusen
Agricultural biodiversity in transition agriculture: Fruit tree genetic resources in rural Uzbekistan

Ekin Birol, Andreas Kontoleon and Melinda Smale
Using a Choice Experiment to Estimate the Demand of Hungarian Farmers for Food Security and Agrobiodiversity During Economic Transition

DIVERSITAS PLENARY POLICY SESSION

Thomas Eichner and John Tschirhart
Efficient Ecosystem Services and Naturalness in an Ecological/Economic Model

John G. Poulsen
Integrated Conservation Strategy for industrial plantation landscapes: Taking a landscape approach to ensure that costs and benefits of social and environmental services, are internalized

Stefan Baumgartner and and Martin Quaas
The Insurance Value of Conservative Biodiversity Management

PARALLEL SESSION 6A: DYNAMIC MODELS OF LAND USE

Sebastien Foudi
Agriculture and habitat conservation: a dynamic BIOECONomic model of agricultural effort and land use determination.

Anke D. Leroux, Vance L. Martin, and Timo Goeschl
Real Options in Biodiversity Conservation

PARALLEL SESSION 6B: LAND USE DECISIONS:EMPIRICS

J.Abdallah and J. Sauer
Efficiency, Biodiversity and Resource Management - Tobacco and Forest in Tanzania

Ben Groom, Pauline Grosjean, Andreas Kontoleon, Tim Swanson, and Zhang Shiqiu (Pending)
Relaxing Constraints with Compensation: Evaluating Off-farm Labour Responses to Reforestation Policy in China