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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Sandra Rousseau (U Leuven): Consumers and citizens, identity salience in choice settings focusing on local wind turbines - In this study we bring the dual role of individuals as citizens and as consumers to the foreground when considering investments in wind energy. To... -
Frits Bos (CPB): Nature in cost-benefit analysis for water management - The way nature has been incorporated in Dutch cost-benefit analyses (CBAs) for water management has changed drastically over time: from CBAs in which... -
Stefania Bortolotti (Max Planck Institute): Hope and Anger, an experiment on inequality and antisocial behavior - Economic inequality may fuel frustration, possibly leading to anger and antisocial behavior. We experimentally study a situation where only the rich... -
Jacob de Hoop (UNICEF): Lost Horizon, the impact of terminating cash support to displaced Syrian children in Jordan - Humanitarian funding is volatile. Consequently, humanitarian interventions are often scaled down while the crisis they are designed to address is... -
Itamar Megiddo (University of Strathclyde): What is the value of antibiotics? Models of withholding antibiotics - The existing business models for antibiotics fail to promote antibiotics stewardship to preserve our existing portfolio of drugs, while at the same... -
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 - Since 2015 Student Associations, the Network Smart Fertilization, and the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group have been organising the... -
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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Accountability mechanisms in international climate change financing
International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics 19 (2019)3. - ISSN 1567-9764 - p. 297 - 313.
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Land tenure reform and grassland degradation in inner Mongolia, China
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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