LEEPin2019: The LEEP Institute's Meeting of International Excellence in Environmental and Resource Economics

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Overview

LEEP’s inaugural conference, held on Monday 24th and Tuesday 25th June 2019 at the University of Exeter, showcased the very best research at the cutting edge of environmental and resource economics, spread over two days in the run-up to the EAERE annual conference in Manchester. The conference featured plenary sessions from a range of high profile speakers, as well as contributed talks and posters, on a range of topics, using a broad suite of methods.

This conference was organised with the support of EAERE, the Royal Economic Society, University of Exeter Business School and Professor Janice Kay CBE (Provost, University of Exeter).

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‌Keynote speakers included:

Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota, USA
Catherine Kling, Iowa State University, USA
Paul Ferraro, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Georgina Mace, University College London, UK
Ian Bateman, University of Exeter, UK
Graham Loomes, University of Warwick, UK
Brett Day, University of Exeter, UK
Christian Vossler, University of Tennessee, USA
Nicholas Hanley, University of Glasgow, UK
Roger Von Haefen, North Carolina State University, USA
Richard Carson, University of California, USA

Papers covered a range of topics, including:

Mechanism design and Payments for Ecosystem Services
Resource management
Applied behavioural economics
Non-market valuation
Spatial and temporal issues, and integrated modelling approaches
Economic insights to improve Government policy
Applications of a range of methods – including field and laboratory experiments, RCTs and applied econometrics – are encouraged

Through generous sponsorship from EAERE, The Royal Economic Society, University of Exeter Business School and Professor Janice Kay CBE (Provost, University of Exeter), we were able to ensure that there was no conference fee.

Presentations

Presentations that have been made for download by speakers:

Speaker	Title	Download Link
Andrew Reeson	Testing auction mechanisms for multi-attribute carbon markets	Andrew Reeson
Catherine Kling	The Social Cost of Water Pollution: Theory and Implications	Catherine Kling
Céline Nauges	Do Risk Preferences Really Matter? The Case of Input Use in Agriculture	Céline Nauges
Chi Man Yip	On the Labor Market Adjustments of Environmental Taxes	Chi Man Yip
Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle	Reducing Air Pollution through Behavioral Change of Wood Stove Users: Evidence from an RCT in Valdivia , Chile	Cristobal Ruiz-Tagle
Eleanor Warren-Thomas	Protecting tropical forests from the rapid expansion of rubber using carbon payments	Eleanor Warren Thomas
Ewa Zawojska	Endogeneity of Self-Reported Consequentiality in Stated Preference Studies	Ewa Zawojska
Gemma Delafield	Where to locate new energy infrastructure? A natural capital approach	Gemma Delafield
Georgina Mace	Biodiversity conservation and the valuation of nature	Georgina Mace
Graham Loomes	Eliciting Values for Health and Life when Preferences are… Elusive	Graham Loomes
Ian Bateman	How to Make Decisions: Contrasting Market, Expert Scenario and Natural Capital Approaches to Land Use Policy	Ian Bateman
Ian Bateman	LEEPin2019 Opening address and Welcome	LEEPin2019 Opening Address and Welcome
Inge van den Bijgaart	Renewable energy implementation and fossil stock development	Inge van den Bijgaart
Keila Meginnis	Varying the payment vehicle in choice experiments: using non-monetary vs. monetary payments in low income countries	Keila Meginnis
Roger von Haefen	Using Onsite Counts to Estimate aMulti-Site, Zonal Travel Cost Model: An Application to the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill	Roger Von Haefen
Stephen Polasky	Making Nature Count at Micro to Macro Scales	Stephen Polasky
Wiktor Budziński	Misspecification of preference heterogeneity structure in hybrid choice models	Wiktor Budziński

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