BIOECON

8th International BIOECON Conference on
"Economic Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity"

Kings College Cambridge , 29-30 August 2006


PROGRAMME AND PAPERS

TUESDAY 29TH OF AUGUST

Session 1

Agro biodiversity and ecosystems

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Presenter

Discussant

Rainfall Shocks, Resilience and the Dynamic Effects of Crop Biodiversity on the Productivity of Agroecosystems

Di Falco

Huntala

Estimations of Soil Biodiversity and Agricultural Production Interactions

Foudi

Sauer

Bees, coffee, and poverty: How alternative policy instruments and ownership structures affect technology choice?

Huhtala

di Falco

Prices and Species Diversity -Stochastic Efficiency Frontier

Sauer

Foudi

Session 2

Optimal Conservation Programme Design

Chair: Skonhoft

 

 

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Discussant

Managing Land Use and Land Cover Change in the biodiversity context with regard to Efficiency, Equality and Ecological Effectiveness

Ohl

Larsen

Noah’s non-concavity: On the existence of non-trivial interior solutions to the problem of cost effective conservation planning

Hunter

Friedl

Farmers’ participation in agri-environmental programs and impact on farm performance: an empirical analysis applied to Swedish Agriculture

Larsen

Ohl

Fund raising for species protection in national parks: limitations and opportunities of nature-based tourism

Friedl

Hunter

Session 3

Conflicts in biodiversity conservation: pests, invasive, and parasites.

Chair: Pascual

 

 

Room: TBC

 

 

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Presenter

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A bug's life: competition among species towards the environment

Bella

Swinton

An application of Weitzman's libraries model for biodiversity preservation with parasites

Shamir

Bella

A Natural Enemies – Adjusted Economic Thresholds for Pest Control

Swinton

Kaiser

Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii

Kaiser

Shamir

Session 4

IFPRI Session: Agricultural Biodiversity and Economic Development

Chair: Smale

 

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Leslie Lipper (FAO)

 

 

Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)

 

 

Peter Hazell (Imperial College London)

 

 

Mauricio Bellon (IPGRI)

 

 

Session 5

Advances in fishery bio-economic modelling

Chair: Halsema

 

 

Room: TBC

 

 

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