Urban Economics
The number of people living in urban environments is increasing rapidly. The mission of the Urban Economics (UEC) group is to contribute to more resilient cities in terms of social equality, economic advantages and environmental quality. Therefore, UEC focusses on two main themes: sustainable consumption and urban-rural interactions. We use insights from general-, urban- and behavioural economics to improve the understanding of consumer and household decision making concerning sustainability, health and well-being and the impacts at the individual, urban and regional level.
Agenda
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Katarzyna Kurek (Wageningen University, UEC/ AEP) Geothermal resources and local development in Poland
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John Komlos (University of Munich) The Rise of Trumpism
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Felix Meier zu Selhausen (Rural and Environmental History Group, WUR) The Economics of Christian Missionary Expansion: Evidence from Africa and Implications for Development
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Vesall Nourani (MIT’s Department of Economics) Learning to Teach by Learning to Learn
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Frederic Ang (Business Economics group, Wageningen University) An adjustment-cost framework for analyzing dynamic profits and productivity
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Juliette Crespin-Boucaud (Paris School of Economics) Land reform 50 years on: Evidence from Kenya’s settlement schemes
News
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Webinar Places that don't matter and Populism in Europe
- As a spinoff of the recently published paper by Eveline van Leeuwen and Solmaria Halleck Vega, titled 'Does population decline lead to a... -
Professor Eveline van Leeuwen appointed as new Scientific Director AMS Institute
- Eveline van Leeuwen, Professor of Urban Economics at Wageningen University and Research and international expert on spatial economics, has been... -
Wordt corona het keerpunt voor krimpregio's? Wonen in de stad door thuiswerken minder nodig
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WUR vragenlijst over Ruimtelijke verschillen in de impact van de lockdown: daling welzijn vooral in de stad.
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Bijna 2000 respondenten, verspreid over heel Nederland hebben de online vragenlijst ingevuld die opgesteld is door... -
Inaugural lecture of Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen
- Finally, the inaugural lecture of Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen titled ‘Urban-rural interactions: more important than ever’ is available in... -
Large changes in Great Britain’s vegetation and agricultural land-use predicted under unmitigated climate change
- Dr. Solmaria Halleck Vega (UEC) has recently worked with a research team from the University of Exeter, the Met Office and the University of Trento. -
Contribution to the Social Simulation Conference 2019
- Prof. Eveline van Leeuwen from UEC and Prof. Gert Jan Hofstede from INF will contribute to the expert discussion on the use of simulation methods to... -
Lessons from Paradise - B. Needham and E. van Leeuwen
- Barrie Needham, one of the most important academics on land policy in the Netherlands, reflects and looks back to the development of spatial planning...
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Latest publications
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Ex Ante Impact Assessment of Reservoir Construction Projects for Different Stakeholders Using Agent-Based Modeling
Water Resources Management (2021). - ISSN 0920-4741 -
Circular Business Models and Circular Agriculture: Perceptions and Practices of Dutch Farmers
Sustainability 13 (2021)3. - ISSN 2071-1050 -
A bottom-up approach to model the environmental impact of the last-mile in an urban food-system
Sustainable Production and Consumption 26 (2021). - ISSN 2352-5509 - p. 958 - 970. -
The influence of urban park attributes on user preferences : Evaluation of virtual parks in an online stated-choice experiment
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18 (2021)1. - ISSN 1661-7827 - p. 1 - 20. -
Which impacts more seriously on natural habitat loss and degradation? Cropland expansion or urban expansion?
Land Degradation and Development 32 (2021)2. - ISSN 1085-3278 - p. 946 - 964.