Registration & Tea/Coffee (City of London Rooms)
09:00 - 09:30

Welcome to envecon 2009. Keynote Speaker: Graham Wynne, Chief Executive, RSPB (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
09:30 - 09:45

Parallel Session 1: Climate and Carbon (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
Chair: Chair: James MacGregor, International Institute for Environment and Development

Marginal Abatement Cost Curves for UK Agriculture, Forestry, Land-use and Land-use Change Sector to 2022

Michael MacLeod,
Scottish Agricultural College

Building a UK Transport Supply-side Marginal Abatement Cost Curve

Carline Spencer, Defra
Michele Pittini, Committee on Climate
Change

Carbon Kuznets Curves, the ‘Kyoto’ Political Arena and Economic Dynamics: New evidence comparing homogenous, heterogeneous and dynamic panel estimators

Massimiliano Mazzanti,
University of Ferrara

Coffee break

Modelling Individual Preferences under a Personal Carbon Allowance Scheme in the UK

Matthew Cranford,
eftec

Willingness to pay for carbon offset certification and cobenefits among (high-) flying young adults in the UK -link

George MacKerron,
London School of Economics and Political Science

Counting the Cost of Climate Change in Developing
Countries: Application to sub-Saharan African countries - report - briefing

Muyeye Chambwera,
International Institute for Environment and Development

Discussion

Parallel Session 2a: Water (Kohn Centre)
Chair: Chair: Anita Payne, European Commission

Land Use and Water Quality: Integrating models of
agriculture and river biology

Carlo Fezzi,
University of East Anglia

Residential Water Demand in Portugal: Checking for
efficiency-based justifications for increasing block tariffs

Henrique Monteiro,
Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa

Quantifying and Valuing the Non-Market Benefits of Water Quality Improvements across Europe for the Water Framework Directive: A multi-country common valuation design, implementation and tests of benefits transfer

Marije Schaafsma,
VU University Amsterdam

Coffee break

Parallel Session 2b: Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity (Kohn Centre)
Chair: Julian Harlow, Natural England

Saving Sumatra’s Species: Combining ecology & economics to maximise conservation efficiency within oil palm plantations - link

Ian Bateman,
University of East Anglia

The Value of Wetland Ecosystem Services in Europe: An application of GIS and meta-analysis for value transfer

Luke Brander,
VU University Amsterdam

A Valuation of England’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Services

Stefanie O’Gorman,
Jacobs

An Evaluation of Economic and Non-economic Techniques for Assessing the Importance of Biodiversity to People in Developing Countries - link

Mike Christie,
Aberystwyth University

Lunch (City of London Rooms)
13:00 – 14:00

Parallel Session 3: Policy Instruments – Design and Effects (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
Chair: Giles Atkinson, London School of Economics and Political Science

Bankable Pollution Permits under Uncertainty and Optimal Risk Management Rules: Theory and emperical evidence - link

Julian Chevallier,
Imperial College London

What Does Cap-and-Trade Increase the Profits of Regulated Firms?

Ian Lange,
University of Stirling

Forestry Carbon: Valuation, Discounting and Risk Management - link (available soon)

Gregory Valatin,
Forestry Commission

Coffee break

Exploring the Potential for Household Heterogeneity to Create Efficiency Savings in Farm Subsidies

Amy Binner,
University of East Anglia

Environmental Liability Directive and Economics

Ece Ozdemiroglu,
eftec

'Nature, Roads or Hospitals?' An empirical evaluation of sustainable development compensation options

Lara Lázaro-Touza,
London School of Economics and Political Science

Parallel Session 4: Economic Valuation (Kohn Centre)
Chair: Mike Christie, Aberystwyth University

Complexity, Decoys and Design in Choice Experiments

Dan Rigby,
Manchester University

Tough and Easy Choices: Testing the influence of utility difference on self-reported certainty levels in choice experiments

Søren Bøye Olsen,
University of Copenhagen

Expanding Stated Preferences: Augmenting choice
experiments with contingent behaviour data in the demand for recreation

Emma Rowan,
Queen’s University Belfast

Coffee break

Can Stated Preferences Yield Robust Estimates of the Value of Statistical Life (VSL)? Results from lab and field investigations of a VSL for adults and children

Silvia Ferrini,
University of Siena

Investigating willingness to pay – willingness to accept asymmetry in choice experiments

Allan Provins,
eftec

Testing the Theoretical Consistency of Stated Preferences for Wildlife Conservation

Sian Morse-Jones,
University of East Anglia

UK Network of Environmental Economists Drinks Reception (City of London Rooms)