The £160 conference fee includes access to parallel sessions, a conference pack, buffet lunch and refreshments, post-conference reception and annual membership to UKNEE. As in past years, a discounted fee of £140 is available for group bookings (3 or more delegates from the same institution) and £75 for students.
Following the selection of submitted papers by the scientific committee, the Draft Agenda has been announced:
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Registration & Tea/Coffee (City of London Rooms)
09:00 - 09:30 |
Welcome to envecon 20. Keynote Speaker: Richard Price, Chief Economist, Defra (tbc) (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
09:30 - 09:45 |
Parallel Session 1: Climate Change (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
Chair: tbc |
Time |
Papers |
Presented by |
| 9:45–10:10 |
The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: A Panel Ricardian Analysis Using GAMMs |
Carlo Fezzi,
CSERG |
| 10:10-10:35 |
Forecasting Air Traffic CO2 Emissions until 2025 |
Benoît Chèze,
Ifp & EconomiX-CNRS, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense |
| 10:35-11:00 |
Business and Policy perspectives |
Graham Earl, AGD and
Owen Bellamy, CCC |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-11:55 |
Carbon Valuation in UK Policy Appraisal: A Revised Approach |
DECC
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| 11:55-12.20 |
How can low-income countries gain from a climate negotiation Framework Agreement? |
Nicola Cantore,
ODI |
| 12:20-12:45 |
Uncertain 2050 emissions targets, CO2 price and global energy transition: a general equilibrium approach with stochastic scenarios |
Olivier Durand-Lasserve,
aUniversité Catholique de Louvain (UCL) |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Discussion |
Parallel Session 2: Ecosystem Services and Environmental Policy Design (Kohn Centre)
Chair: tbc |
Time |
Papers |
Presented by |
| 9:45–10:10 |
Economic evaluation of the ecosystem services delivered by the UK Biodiversity Action Plans |
Mike Christie,
Aberystwyth University |
| 10:10-10:35 |
Auctioning Conservation Contracts in the Presence of Externalities |
Raphael Calel,
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment |
| 10:35-11:00 |
Public attitudes towards changing landscapes |
Diane Burgess,
AFBI-Economics |
11:00-11:30 |
Coffee break |
| 11:30-11:55 |
The Cost of the 2007 Summer Floods in England |
Jonathan Fisher,
Environment Agency |
| 11:55-12.20 |
The Effects of Ecological Information Provision on Preferences for Ecosystem Restoration |
Yohei Mitani,
University of Colorado |
| 12:20-12:45 |
Hydrological modelling of water allocation, ecosystem services and poverty alleviation in the Pongola Floodplain, South Africa |
Bruce Lankford,
University of East Anglia |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Discussion |
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Lunch (City of London Rooms)
13:00 – 14:00 |
Parallel Session 3: Policy Design and Instruments (Wellcome Trust Lecture Hall)
Chair: tbc |
Time |
Papers |
Presented by |
| 14:00-14:25 |
The costs of cleaner water: farming, nitrates and policy
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Dan Rigby,
Manchester University |
| 14:25-14:50 |
Licensing hydro electricity schemes in Scotland: the role of environmental economics in regulatory decision making
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Rebecca Badger,
Scottish Environment Protection Agency |
| 14:50-15:15 |
The Future of Canadian Oil Sands Industry under Enhanced Consumer Awareness
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Sean Frisby |
| 15:15-15:45 |
Coffee break |
| 15:45-16:10 |
On the green side of competitiveness? Export dynamics, environmental tax policies and innovation levers in the European Union |
Valeria Costantini,
University of Roma |
| 16:10-16:35 |
National Determinants of Vegetarianism |
Eimear Leahy,
Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin |
| 16:35-17:00 |
The Impact of a Feebate Scheme on Household Vehicle Choice in France |
Paul Metcalfe,
London School of Economics |
Parallel Session 4: Economic Valuation (Kohn Centre)
Chair: tbc |
Time |
Papers |
Presented by |
| 14:00-14:25 |
Customers’ Inertia in Response to the Risk of Water Supply Interruptions: Insights from a Bounded Bayesian Mixed Logit Analysis of Choice Experiment Data |
Ali Chalak,
American University of Beirut |
| 14:25-14:50 |
Smoothing your way out of a spatial data trap: A new approach to identifying spatial data problems and solving them |
Amy Binner,
CSERGE |
| 14:50-15:15 |
Experienced utility, decision utility and remembered utility: a choice experiment |
Dugland Tinch,
University of Stirling |
15:15-15:45 |
Coffee break |
| 15:45-16:10 |
Task Independence in Stated Preference Studies: A Test of Order Effect Explanations |
Brett Day,
University of East Anglia |
| 16:10-16:35 |
How sensitive are passive use values to economic downturns? Evidence from the 2009 recession |
Maria L. Loureiro,
University of Santiago de Compostela |
| 16:35-17:00 |
Spatial variation in Willingness to Pay for environmental quality changes |
Marije Schaafsma,
VU University Amsterdam |
17:00 – 19:30 UK Network of Environmental Economists Drinks Reception (City of London Rooms) |
