Symposia en congressen
International Conference Economics of Poverty, Environment and Natural Resource Use
17-19 May 2006, Wageningen International Congress Centre
Wageningen, The Netherlands
Call for Papers
organised by Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of Wageningen University and Frontis Wageningen International Nucleus for Strategic Expertise in collaboration with the Research Programme ‘Environment & Economics’ of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO)
Motivatio n and background
Abolishment of poverty is a tremendous challenge for the global community. Although everyone agrees on the goal of poverty reduction, policies often remain controversial or ineffective. Given that livelihoods of millions are at stake, there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes and remedies of poverty. Poverty and its reduction are often linked to the natural resources base. Local commons, like communal lands, are difficult to manage and may be overused. The use of marine resources in international waters will not be properly controlled in the absence of binding international agreements. The state of the environment affects living conditions of the poor and poverty affects environmental quality, for instance, if firewood needs in poor rural areas contribute to deforestation. Properly managed resources and carefully designed institutions are of utmost importance. The conference contributes to the economic analysis of the relation between environmental and natural resource management and poverty allevia tion.
Scope and objectives
The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural resource management, economics of property rights and institutions, bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and studies linking international trade, poverty and the environment.
The objectives of the conference are threefold. First, the conference provides a forum for studies on the links between poverty and the environment. Micro level analysis will contribute to a better understanding of barriers to escape from poverty and resource depletion. Studies on the macro level will enhance our understanding of the relations between sustainability, growth, and poverty. Secondly, the conference facilitates discussions on North-South relations in international trade and environmental agreements. Insights from theoretical models and empirical studies will directly help to shape local and international policies to combat poverty and to improve natural resource m anagement. The role of environmental policies for location choice of economic activities, for leakage of pollution from the industrialised countries to the developing countries and for trade in waste will be discussed. Thirdly, poverty raises concerns about local and international justice and good governance. The conference offers opportunities for formulating policy responses and strategies for direct action and implementation.
Programme
The programme will consist of plenary sessions with keynote speakers and parallel sessions with contributed papers. The conference opens with a reception on Wednesday, 17 May. The scientific programme starts on Thursday morning, 18 May, and closes on Friday evening, 19 May.
Keynote speakers
C. Barrett, Cornell University, USA
D. Bromley, University of Wisconsin, USA
P. Dasgupta, University of Cambridge, UK
S. Engel, University of Bonn, Germany
K.-G. Mäler, Stockholm University, Sweden
D. Zilberman, University of California, Berkeley, USA.
Call for papers
The programme committee invites contributed papers. You are kindly asked to submit your paper electronically as a pdf file attachment before 31 January 2006 addressed to conference.enr@wur.nl. Papers from the NWO programme ‘Environment & Economics’ are especially invited. The following information should be included in the paper:
(i) The title of the paper;
(ii) Name(s) of author(s), with the surname of the paper presenter in capital letters;
(iii) Institutional affiliation of all authors;
(iv) Complete postal and e-mail address of the paper presenter.
Notification of acceptance for oral or poster presentation will be given before 1 March 2006. The deadline for submission of final papers to be included in a CD-rom is 1 April 2006. Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special issue of Environment and Development Economics and in a book on this specific topic to be published in the Wa geningen UR Frontis Series by Springer Press.
Topics
Suggested topics include:
- Driving forces:
- Economic analysis of poverty traps and remedies to escape them
- Analysis of impacts of demographic pressure on the resource base
- Resource use, economic growth and the environmental Kuznets curve
- Options to foster pro-poor growth from sustainable use of natural resources.
- Institutional and policy aspects:
- Economics of Good Governance - fair access to the natural resource base as a means for production
- Options to support environmental governance in countries in crises
- Resource conflicts involving and affecting indigenous people
- Payments for environmental services to reduce poverty and to protect biodiversity
- Impacts of environmental regulation and its enforcement on poverty
- Environmental policies and food security.
- International issues and the role of technology transfer:
- North-South technology transfers and, more specifically, the role of GM crops for food security and biodiversity
- Greening foreign direct investments
- Transition management and industrial transformation
- Eco-efficient innovations
- Trade, environment and poverty: relocation of polluting industries
- Impacts of international agreements: trade bans, technology transfers, international fisheries conventions, WTO regulations (e.g. textile trade regulations)
- Sharing rules for environmental costs and benefits for policy design.
- New developments in modelling:
- Resource modelling and bio-economic modelling
- Game theoretical modelling of resource conflicts
- Modelling the impact of environmental policies.
Organisation
The conference is organised by the Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group of Wageningen University, The Netherlands, and Frontis Wageningen International Nucleus for Strategic Expertise in collaboration with the Research Programme ‘Environment & Economics’ of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), and supported by the Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK/SENSE), the Mansholt Graduate School and the Social Sciences Group.
International scientific committee
E.C. van Ierland (chair), Wageningen University, The Netherlands
D. Bigman, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
E. Bulte, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
B. Copeland, The University of British Columbia, Canada
R. Dellink, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
J. Janmaat, Acadia University, Canada
A. Kuyvenhoven, Wageningen University, The Netherlands
O. Morrissey, University of Nottingham, UK
J.B. Opschoor, ISS, The Hague, The Netherlands
P. Pingali, FAO, Rome, Italy
P. Pinstrup-Andersen, Cornell University, USA
M. Rosegrant, IFPRI, Washington, DC, USA
R.M. Saleth, IWMI, Colombo, Sri Lanka
H. Verbruggen (co-chair), Free University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
H.-P. Weikard, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
Local organising committee
Ekko van Ierland (chair), Harmen Verbruggen (co-chair), Rob Dellink, Hans-Peter Weikard, Marije Verschuur (NWO), Petra van Boetzelaer (Frontis), Wil den Hartog (secretariat).
Date and venue
The conference will be held from 17-19 May 2006. The venue will be Wageningen International Congress Center, Lawickse Allee 9 in the centre of the university town of Wageningen, The Netherlands. Wageningen is beautifully located on the banks of the river Rhine, some 80 kilometers east of Amsterdam. The area is a meeting point of various types of landscapes, providing a more diverse natural environment than other areas of the Netherlands. There are good train connections to Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and cities such as Arnhem, Utrecht and Nijmegen. The Kröller-Müller museum and its famous Van Gogh collection is located in the vicinity of Wageningen.
Important dates
| 31 January 2006 | Deadline for submission of full papers |
| 1 March 2006 | Notification of acceptance of contributed papers |
| 1 April 2006 | Deadline for the submission of accepted full papers |
| 1 April 2006 | Deadline for early registration |
| 1 May 2006 | Deadline for registration |
Secretariat
All correspondence should be sent to the Conference Secretariat:
Mrs Wil den Hartog
Environmental Economics and Natural Resources Group
Wageningen University
P.O. Box 8130
6700 EW Wageningen
The Netherlands
Phone: +31 317 484255
Fax: +31 317 484933
Email: conference.enr@wur.nl
Accommodation
Hotel accommodation is reserved until 1 April 2006 in the centre of Wageningen within walking distance of Wageningen International Congress Centre. Hotel rooms will be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis. For hotel reservations visit the conference website.
Registration and conference fees
The conference fee includes all materials and documentation, refreshments and lunches for the two days and the Conference dinner on 18 May. Hotel accommodation is not included in the fee.
The Conference fee is €250 for those participants who pay their registration fee before 1 April 2006. Thereafter the fee will be €320. Students (PhDs) may participate for a reduced fee of €200. (Please attach a copy of a valid student id-card.)
If cancellation is confirmed before 1 April 2006 fees will be refunded except for a cancellation fee of €50. After 1 April 2006 no refund is possible.
To register please visit the conference website: http://www.socialsciences.wur.nl/enr/
Further information
Further information about the programme, hotels and social events can be found on the conference website: http://www.socialsciences.wur.nl/enr/
We gratefully acknowledge
the support of and collaboration with the Research Programme ‘Environment & Economics’ of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), Frontis, the Wageningen Institute for Environment and Climate Research (WIMEK/SENSE), the Mansholt Graduate School and the Social Sciences Group.