"Economics and the Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity"
Kings College Cambridge , 20-21 September 2005.
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
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