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