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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Jana Vyrastekova (Radboud University): Female entrepreneurship and gender norms - What is the link between female entrepreneurship and gender norms in developing countries? We implement an incentivized experiment in India in order... -
Dusan Drabik (WUR): A conceptual and empirical framework to analyze the economics of food loss and waste and policy interventions - Food loss and waste (FLW) impose significant global economic, social, and natural resource costs. Shifting diets and climate change may increase these... -
Reyer Gerlagh (Tilburg University): Family planning and climate change - The historical increase in emissions is for one-fourth attributable to the growth of emissions per person, whereas three-fourths are due to population...
Highlights
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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...