Agenda

 

Keynote Speech: Matt Georges, Strategic Economic Evidence Manager, The Environment Agency

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Plenary: UK Environmental policy

• Overview of where we are - Edward Lockhart, Broadway Initiative

• Designing auctions for the procurement of environmental services: Insights from theory, experience and experiment - Ben Balmford, University of Exeter

• Investigating the potential of biodiversity offset markets in the UK - Katherine Needham, University of Glasgow

• The supply of ecosystem services as inputs to economic production: Application to the marine environment - Emily Stebbings, Plymouth Marine Laboratory

 

Parallel Session 1: Behaviour

• The can challenge: Exploring the best way to incentivise recycling behaviour - Mike Brock, University of East Anglia

• Measuring drivers of and barriers to smart meter adoption: Evidence from a randomised experiment - Daire McCoy, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

• Odi et amo: A nudge to reduce single-use carrier bags -Chiara Sotis, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

 

Poster Presentations

• Deterring Extraction from the Commons: Evidence from an Experiment, Anomitro Chatterjee, London School of Economics

• Permission to Pollute: The Impact of Free Permit Allocation on Firms Regulated by the EU Emissions Trading Scheme, Petra Sarapatkova, Imperial College Business School

• How do Western European farms behave and respond to climate change: A simultaneous irrigation-crop decision model, Steven Van Passel, Janka Vanschoenwinkel, Mark Vancauteren, University of Antwerp

• Time Discounting and Chinese Grape Growers Response to An Upward Trend in Precipitation, Yihong Ding, Kelvin Balcombe, Elizabeth Robinson, University of Reading

• Thames Water Evenlode Phosphorus Catchment Management Trial – Economic Evaluation, Warwick Wainwright, Atkins

 

Plenary: 2020 Diary

• Keynote: Sarah Williams, Head, Greener UK Unit

• Chris Stark, CEO, UK Committee on Climate Change – COP26, UNFCCC - via videolink

• Helen Avery, Journalist – Economics for finance - via videolink

• Alistair McVittie, SRUC – Updating the ecosystem services valuation database

• Colin Smith, Defra – Enabling a Natural Capital Approach (ENCA) and beyond

 

Parallel Session 3: Climate Change

• Heatwaves and worker productivity in Europe: Economic assessment of past events and climate change projections - David Garcia Leon, University of Venice and Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy 

• Urban green as climate change adaptation measure: The effect of information in stated preferences - Malte Welling, Institute for Ecological Economy Research, Berlin, Germany

• Cost-benefit analysis of carbon mitigation measures in European cities: The importance of co-benefits - Anna Maccagnan, University of Exeter Medical School

• The distributional effects of a carbon tax: The role of income inequality - Giles Atkinson & Julius J Andersson, London School of Economics and Political Sciences

 

Parallel Session 4: Engage, value, manage

• Flood regulation and stakeholder views on natural flood management: Positive expectations, shared responsibility and payment design - Rosalind Bark, University of East Anglia

• Exploring the role of choice experiment in ecosystem accounting and management: A simulated exchange value approach - Gaetano Grilli, Cefas

• Valuing green spaces in urban areas: A hedonic price approach using machine learning techniques - Vahé Nafilyan, Office of National Statistics

• Cash versus in-kind settlements: Implications for environmental protection - Pamela Campa, Stockholm Institute for Transition Economics, Sweden

 

Parallel Session 5: Around the World

• Supplemental irrigation from farm ponds to mitigate rainfall variability in the Sahel: What are the social representations of farmers and institutions in Burkina Faso? - Rahim Ouedraogo, University of Montpellier, France

• Using choice modelling to investigate water-quality interventions for mitigating Schistosoma Mansoni transmission in Uganda - Keila Meginnis, University of Stirling

• Uncovering ecosystem services of expropriated land: The case of urban expansion in Bahir Dar, Northwest Ethiopia - Wubante Fetene Admasu, University of Antwerp, Belgium

 

Parallel Session 6: Valuing Nature Programme

• WetlandLIFE: Once bitten…Environmental values and risks - the case of English wetlands and mosquitoes - Joe Morris, Cranfield University

• CoastWEB: Valuing the contribution saltmarshes make to human health and wellbeing - Nicola Beaumont, Plymouth Marine Laboratory 

• Interactive Interdisciplinarity - Nicola Beaumont & Ece Ozdemiroglu, Valuing Nature Programme