Past Fall Virtual WorkshopsEach fall, AERE hosts a virtual workshop that brings researchers and practitioners together around a timely topic in environmental and resource economics. Below is a look back at recent workshops, with the programs. To learn about the workshop series or propose a future workshop, visit the Fall Virtual Workshop page. 2025: Weather Extremes, Natural Disasters, and Insurance: Research and Policy IssuesOctober 23–24, 2025 This two-day workshop looked at how climate-driven weather extremes, natural disasters, and insurance markets connect. Organized by Margaret Walls and Will Wheeler, it opened with a keynote from Carolyn Kousky on insurability in a warming world. Research sessions covered floods, hurricanes, sea level rise, home insurance, and wildfires, and a conversation with a Washington Post reporter explored how climate economics research reaches the press. View the 2025 agenda2024: Actionable Economic Research for Policy MakingOctober 24–25, 2024 · Joint with AAEA AERE and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA) teamed up on this free workshop about connecting economic research to policy. Panelists from federal agencies, including USDA, EPA, OMB, and others, shared the research areas where policymakers need the most help. They also covered how to engage with policy conversations, find funding and data, and develop new methods and models. A closing session looked at how several agencies work together on water quality. The workshop was planned by an organizing committee of Karen Fisher-Vanden, Valerie Mueller, Ariel Ortiz-Bobea, Amy Ando, Kent Kovacs, Gabriel Lade, and Gabe Sampson. View the 2024 agenda2023: Frontiers in Natural Capital and Green AccountingSeptember 28–29, 2023 Organized by Eli Fenichel of Yale University, this workshop helped participants find their way into the fast-growing field of natural capital accounting, which has been boosted by the release of the U.S. National Strategy for Natural Capital Accounts. Panelists covered the history and background of environmental-economic accounting, how national accounts are structured, uses of these accounts beyond benefit-cost analysis, and open research questions. View the 2023 agenda2022: Environmental Justice Research in Economics: Context, Tools, and MethodologiesOctober 24–25, 2022 Experts in the environmental justice movement and in environmental and economic justice scholarship presented panels for economists who want to work in this area. Sessions gave historical and cross-disciplinary background, perspectives on equity and justice from several economics associations, and a summary of the environmental justice literature in environmental economics. The second day focused on spatial analysis tools and data, and on doing respectful, effective research with vulnerable populations. View the 2022 agenda |