2007 AERE Workshop, June 7-9, 2007

Mystic, Connecticut

Keynote Speakers:

• Geoffrey Heal, Paul Garrett Professor of Public Policy and Business Responsibility and Professor of Finance & Economics, Columbia Business School


• Kathleen Segerson, Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, University of Connecticut


• Peter Kareiva, Lead Scientist, Pacific Western Conservation Region, The Nature Conservancy

• Andam, Kwaw, Paul J. Ferraro, Alex Pfaff, Juan Robalino, and Arturo Sanchez:
  “Evaluating Policies to Secure the Provision of Ecosystem Services: An Econometric Analysis of Protected Areas”
• Discussant: TBA


• Ando, Amy W.:
  “U. S. Conservation Policy Reconsidered”
• Discussant: TBA


• Conte, Marc:
  “Economic Incentives and Ecological Outcomes of Conservation Banking”
• Discussant: TBA


• Finnoff, David, Min Gong, and John Tschirhart:
  “Joint Determination to Assess the Economic Importance of Ecosystem Services”
• Discussant: TBA


• Goetz, Renan-Ulrich, Natali Hritonenko, Angels Xabadia, and Yuri Yatsenko:
  “Optimal Management of a Size-Distributed Forest with Respect to Timber and Carbon Sequestration”
• Discussant: TBA


• Khanna, Madhu, Hayri Onal, Basanta Dhungana, and Michelle Wander:
  “Incentives for Soil Carbon Sequestration through Biomass Crops in Illinois”
• Discussant: TBA


• Langpap, Christian, Ivan Hascic, and JunJie Wu:
  “Protecting Watershed Ecosystems Through Targeted Local Land Use Policies”
• Discussant: TBA


• Nelson, Erik, Stephen Polasky, David J. Lewis, Andrew J. Plantinga, Jeffrey Camm, Eric Lonsdorf, and Heather Tallis:
  “Payments for Ecosystem Services and Efficient Allocation: An Application to Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration and Marketable Commodities in the Willamette Basin.”
• Discussant: TBA


• Pattanayak, Subhrendu K., M. T. Ross, B. M. Depro, S. C. Bauch, C. Timmins, K. Wendland, and K. Alger:
  “Climate Change, Contagion and Conservation: Valuing Ecosystem Services and Evaluating Policies in Brazil via Applied CGE”
• Discussant: TBA


• Sengupta, Sanchita, and David A. Hennessy:
  “Agricultural and Environmental Policy”
• Discussant: TBA


• Sills, Erin O., Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Paul J. Ferraro, Rodrigo Arriagada, Edgar Ortiz, Luis Carrasco, and Silvia Cordero:
  “Testing Pigou: Private Provision of Public Goods”
• Discussant: TBA