Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group
The Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group (ENR) aims to improve our understanding and management of national and international environmental problems, with an emphasis on natural resource management, environmental pollution, and climate change.
Agenda
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Robert Lensink (DEC): Uptake and impact of interlinked Index-based Insurance with credit and agricultural Input - This paper examines the results of randomized experiments in Ethiopia that assess the relevance of bundling index-based insurance (IBI) with credit... -
Hilde Bras (RHI): Women’s position, sibling inequalities, and child nutritional status in Ethiopia - Women’s position is often seen as key to improved child nutrition. Empowered women may improve children’s nutritional status through... -
Gerrit Antonides (UEC): Effects of asymmetric expectation disconfirmation and evaluability of mobile phone attributes on consumer satisfaction - We study the determinants of consumer satisfaction with mobile phones on the basis of perceived product attribute performance and disconfirmation of... -
Salvatore di Falco (Université de Genève): Poverty and Self Esteem - Individual self-esteem levels were elicited in three rounds of panel data in the Nile Basin region of Ethiopia to determine whether droughts during... -
Assessing Economics and Policies Using the Real Options Methodology - 3 ECTS - Irreversible effects do play an important role in private as well as public decision making. The basis for the Precautionary Principle, an important... -
XXI ANNUAL BIOECON CONFERENCE on 11-13 September 2019
Highlights
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Hans-Peter Weikard appointed member of the editorial board of 'Water Economics and Policy' - Hans-Peter Weikard has been appointed as a member of the editorial board of “Water Economics and Policy”. Water Economics and Policy (WEP)... -
The Roadmap to Circular Farming in The Netherlands -
Hans Peter Weikard guest editor GAMES - Hans-Peter Weikard is a guest editor of GAMES (mdpi open access journal) editing a special issue "Game Theoretic Models in Natural Resource... -
Côte d'Ivoire-Ghana: launch of a lowland rice development project - A workshop dedicated to launching a rice lowland development project for Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana was held last Tuesday in Abidjan. At a cost of... -
Biomonitor, monitoring the Bioeconomy - From June 7 to 8, Wageningen University will be chairing the kick-off meeting of the BioMonitor project at the Albert Borschette Congress Center in... -
Ekko van Ierland on climate activism - Watch the video on climate activists and the comment of Ekko van Ierland, professor Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Elisabeth Rasch,... -
Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid KNAW - De KNAW heeft de Wageningse hoogleraar prof. Erwin Bulte gekozen als lid. Naast hem zijn nog twee Wageningse hoogleraren gekozen: prof. John van der... -
Organic kitchen and garden waste in cities could be used as a buffer for wind and solar energy - The wind and the sun are the energy resources of the future, even in cities. An electricity buffer is required under extreme circumstances, if the... -
Wim Heijman receives two honorary titles - On 19 May 2016, the Scientific Council of Belgorod State Agricultural University (Russia) has awarded Wim Heijman the title of Honorary Professor. The... -
Jorieke Vaanhold receives KLV thesis award - We are immensely proud to announce that our MME thesis student Jorieke Vaanhold has won the KLV thesis prize with her thesis entitled 'Price...
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Latest publications
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Positive framing does not solve the tragedy of the commons
Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 95 (2019). - ISSN 0095-0696 - p. 45 - 56.
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Technology driven inequality leads to poverty and resource depletion
Ecological Economics 160 (2019). - ISSN 0921-8009 - p. 215 - 226.
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Perceptions of Land Tenure Security in Rural China : The Impact of Land Reallocations and Certification
Society & Natural Resources (2019). - ISSN 0894-1920
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Logging damage and injured tree mortality in tropical forest management
Natural Resource Modeling (2019). - ISSN 0890-8575
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The impact of agri-environmental policies and production intensification on the environmental performance of Dutch dairy farms
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 43 (2018)3. - ISSN 1068-5502 - p. 423 - 440.