NCEAS Working Groups
The economics of biodiversity
Project Description
The impetus for this workshop is the importance that environmental economists understand better what biodiversity is and how it functions and contributes to goods and services that society values. Economists also need to know better whether and in what ways market and non-market mechanisms can realize some of the economic value of biodiversity, and provide incentives for its conservation.
To progress on these goals, in April 2000, the convenors invited a select group of economists working in related areas to prepare papers on the subject for presentation at the workshop. We have also arranged for these papers to be published in a special issue of the journal Resource and Energy Economics.
It is important to emphasize that this is a novel research area; consequently, we have given authors approximately a year to develop their ideas, culminating in a workshop to be held in the Spring of 2001. Because of the unusual nature of the topic, it would seem highly productive to expose authors to working versions of all the papers as well as discussion. Furthermore, we hope to involve ecologists as discussants in order to assure realistic representation of non-economics processes. As an incentive, the papers will ultimately be refereed and published (assuming the refereeing process is positive) in one of the leading field journals in the environmental and resource economics field: Resource and Energy Economics.
Principal Investigator(s)
Charles Kolstad, Geoffrey Heal
Project Dates
Start: May 11, 2001
End: May 13, 2001
completed
Participants
- Paul R. Armsworth
- James Cook University
- William Brock
- University of Wisconsin
- Linda Fernandez
- University of California, Riverside
- Wayt Gibbs
- Scientific American
- Geoffrey Heal
- Columbia University
- Klaus Nehring
- University of California, Davis
- Alexander Pfaff
- Columbia University
- Stephen Polasky
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Chad Settle
- University of Tulsa
- Jason Shogren
- University of Wyoming
- R. David Simpson
- Resources for the Future
- Arthur Small
- Columbia University
Products
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Journal Article / 2004
An introduction to biodiversity concepts for environmental economists
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Journal Article / 2004
Management of interacting species: Regulation under nonlinearities and hysteresis
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Journal Article / 2004
Dynamic reserve site selection
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Journal Article / 2004
Economics of biodiversity: An introduction
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Journal Article / 2004
Genetic diversity and interdependent crop choices in agriculture
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Journal Article / 2004
Special issue on the economics of biodiversity
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Journal Article / 2004
Enforcement, payments, and development projects near protected areas: How the market setting determines what works where
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Journal Article / 2004
Modelling phylogenetic diversity
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Journal Article / 2004
Hyperbolic discounting and time inconsistency in a native-exotic species conflict