Agenda Overview

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Detailed Programme

(you can also download the pdf version of the Conference Book here)  

14:00 - 19:00 

Registration

Location: King's College

18:00 - 19:30 

Drinks Reception

Location: King's College

07:30 - 08:30 

Breakfast

Location: King's College Dining Hall

08:40 - 09:00 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Welcome Address and Announcements

Location: Keynes Lecture Theatre

Parallel Sessions 1

10:30 - 12:30  - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Session 1A: Special Session - Growth, Population & Land Use: Biodiversity in the Long Run

Hosted by: The Centre for International Environmental Studies (CIES) at the Geneva Graduate Institute (IHEID)

• Paper: Land Use in the Long Run: What is the future of biodiversity
  Presenter: Timothy Swanson (Chair)
  Discussant: Loris André

• Paper: Evolving demographic trends will shape planetary biodiversity
  Presenter: Alfredo Cisneros
  Discussant: Timothy Swanson

• Paper: Economic growth and biodiversity: a sectoral model
  Presenter: Loris André
  Discussant: Alfredo Cisneros

10:30 - 12:30 - Keynes Seminar Room 2A 

Session 1B: Tropical Forests and Policy

• Paper: Greater Flexibility in Payments for Ecosystem Services: Evidence from an RCT in the Amazon
  Presenter: Gabriela Demarchi
  Discussant: Diego Castro-Amado

• Paper: Conservation policies are failing to reduce degradation in the Brazilian Amazon
  Presenter: Federico Cammelli
  Discussant: Julien Wolfersberger

• Paper: Drugs Policies as Conservational Policies? A case study of the eradication of illicit crops in Colombia
  Presenter: Diego Castro-Amado
  Discussant: Gabriela Demarchi

• Paper: Agricultural Trade and Deforestation: the Role of New Roads
  Presenter: Julien Wolfersberger (Chair)
  Discussant: Federico Cammelli

10:30 - 12:30 - Saltmarsh Reception Room 

Session 1C: Marine and Fisheries 1

• Paper: Measuring Ecosystem Wealth in the Context of Global Conflict
  Presenter: Ethan Addicott
  Discussant: Benjamin Chipperfield

• Paper: Valuing biodiversity in freshwater fisheries: Evidence from Lao PDR
  Presenter: Benjamin Chipperfield
  Discussant: Julia Bronnmann

• Paper: Can ecolabels tune a supply chain? The case of MSC-certified haddock from Norway
  Presenter: Julia Bronnmann (Chair)
  Discussant: Ethan Addicott

10:30 - 12:30 - Saltmarsh Dining Room 

Session 1D: Managing Downside Risk

• Paper: Effectiveness of organized guarding in reducing mortality from human-elephant conflict: evidence from north-east India
  Presenter: E. Somanathan
  Discussant: Khashi Ghorbani

• Paper: Imposing risks to ourselves and others: Disentangling the role of risk, externalities, and social factors in an economic experiment
  Presenter: Anna Abatayo
  Discussant: Pierre Courtois

• Paper: Strategic Responses to Enforcement Uncertainty: Modeling Antibiotic Application Decisions in Plant Agriculture
  Presenter: Khashi Ghorbani
  Discussant: E. Somanathan

• Paper: The private management of plant disease epidemics: Infection levels and social inefficiencies
  Presenter: Pierre Courtois (Chair)
  Discussant: Anna Abatayo

12:30 - 13:30 

Lunch

Location: King's College Dining Hall

Parallel Sessions 2

13:30 - 15:00 - Keynes Seminar Room 2A 

Session 2A: Impacts of Biodiversity Conservation

• Paper: The Effect of Birdsong on Self-Reported Mental Health
  Presenter: Anthony Higney
  Discussant: Kirara Homma

• Paper: Public land-use policies have improved biodiversity: A global empirical analysis on the world’s grasslands
  Presenter: Kirara Homma
  Discussant: Katarina Elofsson

• Paper: Economic trade-offs of land use change and wildlife values
  Presenter: Katarina Elofsson (Chair)
  Discussant: Anthony Higney

13:30 - 15:00 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Session 2B: Advances in Sustainability Theory

• Paper: Valuing carbon removals’ effect on tipping points and technical change
  Presenter: Frank Venmans
  Discussant: Luc Doyen

• Paper: Bioeconomic Sustainability and Resilience of Savanna
  Presenter: Luc Doyen
  Discussant: Stefan Baumgärtner

• Paper: Welfare measurement under Knightian uncertainty
  Presenter: Stefan Baumgärtner (Chair)
  Discussant: Frank Venmans

13:30 - 15:00  - Saltmarsh Reception Room 

Session 2C: Experiments

• Paper: Envisioning Collective Action for Sustainable Resource Management: An Economic Experiment
  Presenter: Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo
  Discussant: Lluís Puig-Gonzalez

• Paper: Tree Planting Decision under Loss Averse Landowners: A Coordination Game Approach
  Presenter: Lluís Puig-Gonzalez
  Discussant: Ben Balmford

• Paper: Designing Markets for Bundled Environmental Goods
  Presenter: Ben Balmford (Chair)
  Discussant: Juan Felipe Ortiz-Riomalo

13:30 - 15:00 - Saltmarsh Dining Room

Session 2D: Urban Environment

• Paper: Hot Cities, Cool Choices: The Effect of Optional and Obligatory Information on Stated Preferences for Urban Green Spaces
  Presenter: Fabian Marder
  Discussant: Konstantin Reisner

• Paper: Bright and Green? A Global View on Density and the Trade-off Between Economic Activity and Green Spaces for Over 1000 Cities
  Presenter: Konstantin Reisner
  Discussant: Leonie Ratzke

• Paper: Unraveling a Vicious Cycle: The Interplay Between Extreme Weather Events, Urban Expansion, and Deforestation
  Presenter: Leonie Ratzke (Chair)
  Discussant: Fabian Marder

15:00 - 15:30 

Coffee

Location: King's College

Parallel Sessions 3

15:30 - 17:00 - Saltmarsh Reception Room

Session 3A: Voluntary Forest Policy

• Paper: The Voluntary Carbon Market's Contribution to Land Restoration in Senegal: A Study of Territorial Interactions and Financing Instruments
  Presenter: Morgane Gonon
  Discussant: Tara L'Horty

• Paper: Willingness-to-Claim Voluntary Carbon Offsets: Market Evidence of Revealed Preferences
  Presenter: Tara L'Horty
  Discussant: Liam Wren-Lewis

• Paper: What are the Limits to Private Certification? Evidence from an Attempt to Protect Intact Forests
  Presenter: Liam Wren-Lewis (Chair)
  Discussant: Morgane Gonon

15:30 - 17:00 - Saltmarsh Dining Room

Session 3B: Choice Experiments 1

• Paper: An Experimental Approach to Farmer Valuation of African Rice Genetic Resources
  Presenter: Nicholas Tyack
  Discussant: Axelle Francx

• Paper: Monetary Valuation of Fauna in Legal Frameworks of European Countries: A Comparative Analysis
  Presenter: Axelle Francx
  Discussant: Maria Loureiro

• Paper: Enhancing Data Quality in Online Surveys: A Comparison Across Countries
  Presenter: Maria Loureiro (Chair)
  Discussant: Nicholas Tyack

15:30 - 17:00 - Keynes Seminar Room 2A 

Session 3C: Special Session - Ecological-Economic Modelling

• Paper: Cost-Effectiveness of Result-Based Versus Measure-Based Agri-Environment Payments in a Landscape with Pre-Existing Landscape Elements: Insights from an Ecological-Economic Model
  Presenter: Caterina De Petris
  Discussant: Martin Drechsler

• Paper: Learning Coalition Formation Under an Agglomeration Bonus
  Presenter: Martin Drechsler
  Discussant: Nonka Markova-Nenova

• Paper: What About Agglomeration Bonus Plus Malus as a Policy Option for AES? A Case Study Hedge Planting Scheme for Bird Conservation in Saxony, Germany
  Presenter: Nonka Markova-Nenova (Chair)
  Discussant: Caterina De Petris

15:30 - 17:00 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Session 3D: Biodiversity in Markets

• Paper: Payments for Ecosystem Services as (Un-)Insurance
  Presenter: Sophie Harzer
  Discussant: Jette Bredahl Jacobsen

• Paper: Incorporating Biodiversity into Net National Income
  Presenter: Jette Bredahl Jacobsen
  Discussant: Michael Tanner

• Paper: Lost and Found: Valuing Biodiversity in a Natural Field Experiment on Charitable Donations
  Presenter: Michael Tanner (Chair)
  Discussant: Sophie Harzer

17:00 - 18:30 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Policy Panel Session on "Biodiversity-Harmful Subsidies: Identification, Assessment, and Re-Design"

Hosted by: PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency
Location: Keynes Lecture Theatre

18:30 - 19:30 (room TBC)

BIOECON Committee Meeting (Invite Only)

Location: King's College

19:30 - Onwards 

Drinks

Location: King's College Dinning Hall 

20:00 - Onwards 

Dinner

Location: King's College Dining Hall

09:00 - 10:00 

Plenary: Professor Paul Armsworth

Hosted by the Brandenburg University of Technology

Location: Keynes Lecture Theatre

10:00 - 10:30 

Coffee

Location: King's College

Parallel Sessions 4

10:30 - 12:30 - Saltmarsh Reception Room

Session 4A: Special Session - Forests and Development

• Paper: Forest Protection and Human Health: The Case of Malaria in the Brazilian Amazon
  Presenter: Ariaster Chimeli
  Discussant: Daniele Rinaldo

• Paper: Staggered Protection: A Study of the Dynamic Effects of Protected Areas
  Presenter: Thiago Morello da Silva
  Discussant: Lorenzo Sileci

• Paper: Sacred Ecology: The Environmental Impact of African Traditional Religions
  Presenter: Daniele Rinaldo
  Discussant: Ariaster Chimeli

• Paper: More Than Just Carbon: The Socioeconomic Impact of Large-Scale Tree Planting
  Presenter: Lorenzo Sileci (Chair)
  Discussant: Thiago Morello da Silva

10:30 - 12:30 - Saltmarsh Dining Room

Session 4B: Risk and Uncertainty

• Paper: Introducing Dynamics into Coastal Management: Sharks-Human Interactions in Israel as a Case Study
  Presenter: Ziv Zemah-Shamir
  Discussant: Marc Bohnet

• Paper: The Behavioral Economics of Extreme Event Attribution
  Presenter: Timo Goeschl
  Discussant: Charlotte Gerling

• Paper: Not Just Knocking on Wood: The Short- and Long-Term Pricing of Deforestation Risk on Global Financial Markets
  Presenter: Marc Bohnet
  Discussant: Ziv Zemah-Shamir

• Paper: Accounting for Risk in Species Conservation Programmes
  Presenter: Charlotte Gerling (Chair)
  Discussant: Timo Goeschl

10:30 - 12:30 - Keynes Seminar Room 2A 

Session 4C: Marine and Fisheries 2

• Paper: Re-Assessing the Health of the Global Oceans According to General Population Preferences
  Presenter: Simon Disque
  Discussant: Martin Quaas

• Paper: Promoting Compliance by Subsidies in a Size-Structured Open-Access Fishery
  Presenter: Florian Diekert
  Discussant: Anouch Missirian

• Paper: Fisheries Management from a Fisherman’s Perspective
  Presenter: Martin Quaas
  Discussant: Simon Disque

• Paper: Can Demand-Side Interventions Rebuild Global Fisheries?
  Presenter: Anouch Missirian (Chair)
  Discussant: Florian Diekert

10:30 - 12:30 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Session 4D: Policy Trade-Offs

• Paper: Polarised Preferences Towards Payment Schemes for Carbon Capture, Biodiversity Preservation, and Recreation in Forests: A Cross-Country Analysis
  Presenter: Oliver Frings
  Discussant: David Simpson

• Paper: Where to Put Things, for Now? Optimal Within-Season, Annual, and Permanent Conservation Actions for Migratory Species
  Presenter: Jo Albers
  Discussant: Nick Hanley

• Paper: Managing Forests for Carbon Sequestration and Biodiversity Protection: When Are the Objectives Consonant?
  Presenter: David Simpson
  Discussant: Oliver Frings

• Paper: Economic Incentives for Woodland Creation: Modelling the Impacts on Biodiversity
  Presenter: Nick Hanley (Chair)
  Discussant: Jo Albers

10:30 - 12:30  - Keynes Seminar Room 1

Session 4E: Forestry Modelling

• Paper: Deployment of Genetic Variability in Treescapes: Insights from a Bioeconomic Model
  Presenter: Ewan McTaggart
  Discussant: Olli Tahvonen

• Paper: Multi-Objective Management of Naturally Regenerating Beech Forests – An Ecological-Economic Optimization Approach
  Presenter: Markus Schorn
  Discussant: Vesa-Pekka Parkatti

• Paper: Optimizing High-Dimensional Forestry for Wood Production and Carbon Sinks
  Presenter: Olli Tahvonen
  Discussant: Ewan McTaggart

• Paper: Assessing Economic Benefits and Costs of Carbon Sinks in Boreal Rotation Forestry
  Presenter: Vesa-Pekka Parkatti (Chair)
  Discussant: Markus Schorn

12:30 - 13:30 

Lunch

Location: King's College Dining Hall

Parallel Sessions 5

13:30 - 15:30 - Saltmarsh Reception Room

Session 5A: Forests

• Paper: Forest Management Practices and Safety Preferences: Do Households Welcome Prescribed Burning?
  Presenter: Maria Teresa Gonzalez Valencia
  Discussant: Malte Ladewig

• Paper: Effect of Rural Electrification on Land Use and Forests in Developing Countries
  Presenter: Julia Girard
  Discussant: Sabrina Eisenbarth

• Paper: Artisanal Mining Triggers Deforestation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
  Presenter: Malte Ladewig
  Discussant: Maria Teresa Gonzalez Valencia

• Paper: Carbon Leakage from Land-Based Climate Change Mitigation Measures
  Presenter: Sabrina Eisenbarth (Chair)
  Discussant: Julia Girard

13:30 - 15:30  - Saltmarsh Dining Room

Session 5B: Choice Experiments 2

• Paper: Estimating Willingness to Pay for Freshwater Ecosystem Services in Sri Lanka: A Stated Preference Approach
  Presenter: Menuka Udugama
  Discussant: Kennet Uggeldahl

• Paper: Incorporating Spatial Complexity and Variability into Stated Choice Experiments for Biodiversity Policy Support
  Presenter: Tomas Badura
  Discussant: Malte Welling

• Paper: Out of Context? Contextual Embedding and Sensitivity to Scope When Valuing Biodiversity Improvements Based on the Biodiversity Intactness Index
  Presenter: Kennet Uggeldahl
  Discussant: Menuka Udugama

• Paper: Preferences for Biodiversity-Promoting Private Garden Designs: A Basket-Based Choice Approach
  Presenter: Malte Welling (Chair)
  Discussant: Tomas Badura

13:30 - 15:30 - Keynes Seminar Room 2A 

Session 5C:  Agriculture and Biodiversity

• Paper: Who Should Control the Implementation of Measures for Ecosystem Service Provision in Agricultural Landscapes? Insights from a Choice Experiment for German Orchards
  Presenter: Henrique Manhique
  Discussant: Guyo Dureti

• Paper: Guilty or Scapegoat? Land Consolidation and the Hedgerow Decline
  Presenter: Valentin Cocco
  Discussant: Lea Nicita

• Paper: Environmental Policies Have Globally Improved Cropland Soil Condition
  Presenter: Guyo Dureti
  Discussant: Henrique Manhique

• Paper: Assessing the Impact of Natural Land on Farmland Value in Southern Europe
  Presenter: Lea Nicita (Chair)
  Discussant: Valentin Cocco

13:30 - 15:30 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Session 5D:  Policy Impacts on Ecosystem Services

• Paper: Evaluation of Wetland Area Gains and Losses under the US Clean Water Act
  Presenter: Ville Inkinen
  Discussant: Daniel Leppert

• Paper: Payments for Ecosystem Services Programs and Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture
  Presenter: Youngho Kim
  Discussant: Sylvain Chabe-Ferret

• Paper: A Spatially Explicit Cost-Benefit Analysis of Environmental Land Management Schemes for Pollination Services
  Presenter: Daniel Leppert
  Discussant: Ville Inkinen

• Paper: The Impact of Organic Farming on Productivity and Biodiversity: Evidence from a Natural Experiment
  Presenter: Sylvain Chabe-Ferret (Chair)
  Discussant: Youngho Kim

15:30 - 16:30 - Keynes Lecture Theatre

Panel Session: 

BioEcon @ 25: lessons learnt from 25 years of collaborative research on the economics of conservation (with coffee and cakes)

Location: King's College

16:30 - 16:45

 Closing remarks

Location: King's College