AERE Annual Summer Conference Excellence in Academic Programming -- Collegiality in Destinations Worth Visiting
The ninth annual AERE Summer Conference will be held Wednesday, June 2 to Friday, June 4, 2021, online. Please join us! We encourage participation from academic, public, and private sector environmental and resource economists as well as graduate students, in particular those entering the job market.
AERE’s signature Summer Conference gathers the world’s leading environmental and natural resource economists for two days of outstanding academic programming in a collegial atmosphere.
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 Registration includes access to all sessions as well as the keynote address Joseph Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley, June 3 at 11:00 AM, and a virtual social event June 2 at 7:00 PM.
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Conference Highlights Highlights of the conference will include AERE Fellow and Publication Awards and a keynote address by Professor Joseph Shapiro of the University of California at Berkeley
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About Past AERE Conferences & Workshops
AERE has hosted a summer meeting or conference for over 30 years. Learn more about our past workshops and conferences below.
Past Summer Conferences
Beginning in 2011, AERE began hosting an annual summer conference. Conferences are held each year, not including years in which AERE is sponsoring the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists. Below you will find links to the programs of past conferences.
2020: Virtual
2019: Incline Village, Nevada
2018: The 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists was held in Gothenburg, Sweden
2017: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2016: Breckenridge, Colorado
2015: San Diego, California
2014: The 5th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists was held in Istanbul, Turkey
2013: Banff, Alberta, Canada
2012: Asheville, North Carolina
2011: Seattle, Washington
AERE Summer Workshop Series
Prior to beginning the Summer Conference series in 2011, AERE hosted an annual Summer Workshop that focused on a specific topic in a small-meeting atmosphere. The first AERE Summer Workshop was held in 1985 in Boulder, Colorado. The last Summer Workshop was fittingly held at Resources for the Future in June 2009—the organization that helped launch AERE thirty years earlier in 1979.
Topics of the final seven workshops are listed below.
2009: Energy and the Environment 2008: Health and the Environment 2007: Valuation and Incentives for Ecosystem Services 2005: Natural Resources at Risk 2004: Distributional Effects of Environmental Policy 2003: Spatial Theory, Modeling, and Econometrics in Environmental and Resource Economics 2001: Assessing and Managing Environmental and Public Health Risks
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