envecon 2018

John Curnow, Chief Economist, Defra delivered the keynote on the messages of the 25 Year Environment Plan and shed light on what our community can do to help put it into practice.  We heard about the reactions of three stakeholder groups:

Agriculture: Rohit Kaushish, Economist, National Farmers Union
Nature conservation: Katie Bolt, Senior Economist, RSPB
Water:Martin Hurst, independent expert

• Developing a natural capital account for air pollution removal by vegetation - Laurence Jones, Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
• Urban natural capital accounts: UK and local results  - Ian Dickie, eftec
• Accounting for Nature: A Natural Capital Account for RSPB Nature Reserves - Katie Bolt, RSPB
• The application of restoration costs developing an asset register, ecosystem accounts and cost-benefit analysis for two UK pilot studies - Geoff Bright, ONS

• Energy policy and power sector in the long run - Baran Doda & Sam Fankhauser, Grantham Research Institute
• The impacts of energy prices on industrial foreign investment location: evidence from global firm level data  - Aurelien Saussay, Sciences Po (OFCE)
• To build or not to build? Capital stocks and climate policy -  Karlygash Kuralbayeva, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)

• Environmental attitudes and preferences for estuarine ecosystem services -  Valeria Toledo-Gallegos, University of St Andrews
• Do flood events increase opinion polarisation about the existence of anthropogenic climate change? -  Daniel Osberghaus, Centre for European Economic Research, Germany
• Do biodiversity conservation films cause pro-environmental behavioural spillover effects? -  Ganga Shreedhar, LSE
• Environmental attitudes and place identity as simultaneous determinants of preferences for environmental goods -  Michela Faccioli,  James Hutton Institute & University of Exeter. Or view the full paper by clicking here.

• Integrated planning and natural capital economic appraisal -  Teresa Fenn, RPA
• A generalizable integrated natural capital methodology for targeting investment in saltmarsh enhancement - Katrina Davis, University of Exeter
• The increasing impact of climate change on European crops - Vincenzo De Lipsis, UCL Institute for Sustainable Resources
• Land sparing in agricultural landscapes - Ben Groom, LSE

• "Industrial characteristics and air pollution: long-term determinants in the UK manufacturing sector" - Paolo Agnolucci & Theodoros Arvanitopoulos, University College London
• "Ecosystem service valuation in an accounting context: Application and evaluation of a natural capital accounting framework on the Mac Robert Trust Estate in Scotland" - Twan De Korte, Wageningen University (WUR), The Netherlands
• "Environmental costs and benefits at the site of the London 2012 Olympics" - Matt Georges, Environment Agency
• "Estimating the demand for noise reduction: A two-step hedonic study in Flanders, Belgium" - Machteld Joly, Center for Economics and Corporate Sustainability, Belgium
• "The value of lions: Economic valuation of lion presence for local communities" - Kim Jacobsen, Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, University of Oxford
• "Valuating the effect of the Iron Foundry of Trieste on the housing market using a Hedonic Property Value Model" - Jozef Masseroli, eftec, UK
• "Further bridging the energy efficiency gap: heterogeneity, model error and time-consistency" - Daire McCoy, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, UK
• "Finding the right spot: recreational sea anglers location choice in the UK" - Angela Muench, Cefas, UK
• "Park Life:   Assessing the need to Understand User Group Needs when delivering Environmental Amenities" -  Joel Russell & Mike Brock,  York University  & UEA
• "Estimating the value of natural capital for forests in Wales" - Gregory Valatin & Vadim Saraev of Forest Research, UK
• "Developing an Eco-metric to quantify ecosystem services provision from major infrastructure projects: A UK highways application" - Warwick Wainwright, University of Edinburgh
• "Valuing Green Infrastructure development at Musgrave Park Hospital" - Marios Zachariou, Queens University Belfast

• Understanding the impact of different Brexit scenarious on the UK's fishing fleet - Griffin Carpenter, New Economics Foundation
• Spatial distribution of preferences for changes in high intensity agricultural landscapes in Great Britain - Tomas Badura, University of East Anglia
• Environmental Regulation and growth –  impact on sustainable economic growth - Jonathan Fisher, Independent. To view the full paper, click here.
• Exploring alternative rationales for policy interventions in ecosystem processes: efficiency versus resilience - Ian Hodge, University of Cambridge

• Differences in preferences or strategic behavior? A choice experiment on Tidal Energy in Puget Sound - Keila Meginnis, University of Manchester
• Valuation of freshwater angling in England  - Paul Metcalfe, PJM Economics
• Combining respondents' psychological subjective preferences with their willingness to pay for river water improvements - Danyel Hampson, LEEP
• The disamenity impact of solar farms: a hedonic analysis  - Allan Beltran-Hernandez, LSE

• Sea bass angling in Ireland: a structural equation model of catch and effort  -  Gianluca Grilli, Economic and Social Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland
• Scuba diving in the OosterscheldeL Combining travel cost estimates with stated choice estimates - Sandra Rousseau, Center for Economics and Corporate Sustainability, Belgium
• Investigating the preferences of remote beneficiaries of sustainable tourism development: the case of Fiji  - Gaetano Grilli, Cefas

• Crime is in the air: examining the relationship between air pollution and crime  -  Sefi Roth, LSE
• Economics of invasive pests and diseases: implications for management and policy  - Nick Hanley, University of Glasgow