March/April 2025
In this month's newsletter:
Watch Kerry ten Kate's envecon 2025 Keynote Speech
Land Use Transitions in the UK and Beyond
New Issue of JEEP
Papers on Fisheries, Tech Adoption, Adaptation, Diet, and more
Opportunities
Upcoming conferences and standards consultations
Watch Kerry ten Kate's envecon Keynote
Land Use Transition in the UK and Beyond
We are grateful to all of you who joined us for envecon 2025, either in person or online. In particular, we'd like to thank our sponsors: eftec, the Economics of Biodiversity Programme, and the Dragon Capital Chair.
Recordings of the sessions, previous conferences, and webinars are exclusive to UKNEE members, yet we were so impressed by the keynote speech from Kerry ten Kate that we have made it available to all.
Kerry's keynote address focuses on the challenge of successfully and fairly and transitioning land use in the UK (with implications far beyond). She identifies recent successes in legislation before highlighting the urgency for further action and the key challenges ahead: arguing for improved spatial planning, further development and improvement of environmental credits and markets, measures to ensure local community benefit and inclusion, improved low-cost standards and assurance mechanisms, and the need for government departments and agencies to be supported to work cohesively.
Her closing remarks offer recommendations on what she would like to see from economists in the future, which can be taken as a guiding star for future work. Kerry argues for a greater body of evidence to fortify the business case for nature, the further development of land management tools for spatial planning, and for each of us to ask the question:
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"how can my work be used to improve the quality of decision-making, problem solving and implementation as soon as possible?"
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To watch the keynote in full, click here.
New Issue of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy
With spotlight summary from JEEP's New Editor-in-Chief, Marije Schaafsma
The Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy (JEEP) has been a long-term fixture of UKNEE and is available to our members. We are pleased to welcome Marije Schaafsma, Associate Professor in Environmental Economics at VU Amsterdam, as the new Editor in Chief for JEEP.
JEEP’s first issue of 2025 was released last month, with the next release scheduled for May. Marije has prepared the following one-line summaries on some of the papers in the most recent issue.
If you'd like to publish your paper through JEEP, you can submit here.
Fisheries
Fishing is a lifeline for inland and coastal countries in Africa. The positive impacts on relieving undernourishment override indirect negative effects via environmental change: DOI Link, by Muhamadu Awal Kindzeka Wirajing, Roger Tsafack Nanfosso & Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou
Fisheries stakeholders support sustainability goals, but don’t agree on preferred regulations: DOI Link, by Lucy Amigo-Dobaño, Iria GarcÃa-Lorenzo, MarÃa Dolores Garza-Gil & Manuel Varela-Lafuente
Adoption of Sustainable Technologies
Households are willing to adopt roof-top or community solar-electric systems, and regulators can steer this behaviour: DOI Link, by Arthur J. Caplan
Climate Adaptation
Strassbourg residents are keen to reduce urban heat island effects and improve flood prevention and water protection: DOI Link, by Bénédicte Rulleau
Diet & Behaviour
Bruers finds that animal-welfare-labelled meat is not a first step towards animal-free diets: DOI Link by Stijn Bruers
Opportunities
Calls for Papers & Consultations
Conferences (Calls for Papers)
SEEDS Annual Conference 2025, 28-30 May 2025, Milan, Italy. Papers due by 11 April 2025: submit here
BIOECON: 1-2 September 2025, Cambridge, UK. Papers Due by April 30: Submit here
Economics of Biodiversity Programme Conference, 16-17 Sept 2025, London, UK. Contact econ.biodiv@uea.ac.uk for information on attendance.
Standards & Consultations