envecon 2007

09:00 - 09:30 Registration & Tea/Coffee (City of London Rooms)
09:30 - 09:35 Welcome (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
09:35 - 09:55 Keynote Speech : Richard Price, Chief Economist, Defra
Parallel Session 1: Economic Valuation - Testing the Theory (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)  
Chair: Dr Susana Mourato, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Economics, Imperial College London
Time Papers Presented By
10:00 - 10:25 Estimating a Value of a Life Year from Air Pollution Reduction: A Comparison of Approaches Hugh Metcalf, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
10:25 - 10:50 The Effects of Non-Participation in Choice Models: Hurdle and Latent Class Approaches Dan Rigby, University of Manchester
10:50 - 11:15 Preference learning versus coherent arbitrariness: Contrasting NOAA guidelines with a Learning Design Contingent Valuation (LDCV) Ian Bateman, University of East Anglia
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:55 Enhancing Cheap Talk Scripts in Choice Experiments Jacob Ladenburg, University of Copenhagen
11:55 - 12:20 Sequencing Anomalies in Choice Experiments Brett Day, University of East Anglia
12:20 - 12:45 External Test of Scope in a Choice Experiment Valuation Study Jette Bredahl Jacobsen, Forest & Landscape Denmark, University of Copenhagen
12:45 - 01:00 Discussion

Parallel Session 2: Water (Kohn Centre)  
Chair: Kevin Andrews, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Time Papers Presented By
10:00 - 10:25 Economic valuation of the non-market benefits of the European Water Framework Directive: An international river basin application of the contingent valuation method Roy Brouwer, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam
10:25 - 10:50 Pricing for Scarcity? Catarina Roseta Palma, University of Lisbon
10:50 - 11:15 Information-intensive valuation of complex natural resources: the case of groundwater Helen Johns, Economics for the Environment Consultancy
11:15 - 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 - 11:55 Disproportionate Costs in the EC-Water Framework Directive - The Concept and its Practical Implementation Benjamin Görlach, Ecologic
11:55 - 12:20 Economic Evaluation of Inland Fisheries Keith Lawrence and James Spurgeon, Jacobs UK Ltd
12:20 - 12:45 Benefits and costs of groundwater protection in Denmark Louise Martinsen, National Environmental Research Institute University of Aarhus
12:45 - 01:00 Discussion
01:00 - 02:00 Lunch (City of London Rooms)

Parallel Session 3: Climate Change (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)  
Chair: Dr Karsten Neuhoff, Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge

Time Papers Presented By
02:00 - 02:25 The Economic Costs of Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Etem Karakaya, European Environment Agency
02:25 - 02:50 Carbon Leakage with International Technology Spillovers Reyer Gerlagh, University of Manchester
02:50 - 03:15 Economic dynamics, air emissions and the Environmental Kuznets Curve hypothesis: Evidence using NAMEA sector disaggregated panel data Massimiliano Mazzanti, University of Ferrara, Italy
03:15 - 03:30 Coffee break
03:30 - 03:55 Discounting the Benefits of Climate-Change Policy: the Stern Review, its Critics and Policy Implications Simon Dietz, London School of Economics
03:55 - 04:20 Taxing Takeoff: A theoretically consistent aggregate demand model of short haul flights from the UK Brett Day, University of East Anglia
04:20 - 04:45 Tradable Permits Markets and Banking Borrowing: A Review of Economic Modelling, Current Provisions and Prospects for Future Design Julien Chevallier, University of Paris
04:45 - 05:00 Discussion

Parallel Session 4: Ecosystems and Biodiversity (Kohn Centre)  
Chair: Helen Dunn, UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Time Papers Presented By
02:00 - 02:25 Trade-off between Industrial Productive Use and Non-Productive Use of Wetlands: a Cost-Benefit Analysis Applied to the Seine Estuary (France) Dimitri Laroutis, University of Rouen
02:25 - 02:50 Using Spatial Microsimulation techniques in the Aggregation of Environmental Benefit Values: An Application to Corncrake Conservation on Irish Farmland Stephen Hynes, Irish Agriculture and Food Development Authority
02:50 - 03:15 Valuing Marginal Changes in Wildlife Populations and Habitats Adam Dutton, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
03:15 - 03:30 Coffee break
03:30 - 03:55 Assessing the Value of Marine Protected Areas in the UK: A Contingent Valuation Study of Lundy Marine Nature Reserve Marianne Pett, Centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London
03:55 - 04:20 Community Valuation of Forestry Resources: Understanding Values to Improve Policy Petrina Rowcroft, Scott Wilson
04:20 - 04:45 Environmental Valuation and Habitat Recreation Ino Kremezi and Bill Watts, Environment Agency for England and Wales
04:45 - 05:00 Discussion
05:00 - 08:00 UK Network of Environmental Economists Drinks Reception (City of London Rooms)

 
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