CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
EAERE-FEEM- Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Catania
Belpasso International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics
The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation
Belpasso (Italy), September 12th - 18th, 2010
http://www.feem-project.net/belpasso_2010/
Deadline for applications: May 1st, 2010
The European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economists<http://www.eaere.org/> (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico
Mattei<http://www.feem.it/getpage.aspx?id=62> (FEEM) and the Faculty of Agriculture
of the University of
Catania<http://www.fagr.unict.it/index.php?indice=1&language=it>, with the
sponsorship of the Municipality of Belpasso, are pleased to announce the Belpasso
International Summer School on Environmental and Resource Economics for postgraduate
students.
The 2010 Summer School will take place from the 12th to the 18th of September at
Belpasso, a city in the Province of Catania, Sicily, Italy. The theme of this Summer
School is The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Conservation.
Human well-being is strongly dependent upon ecosystem services provided freely by
nature and its biodiversity. Many of these services are public goods, and as such
they do not have a market price. As a result, their loss is often not detected by
our current market system. In addition, a variety of pressures resulting from
population growth, changing diets, urbanisation, and climate change is causing
additional strain on ecosystem conservation (e.g. farm land from cleared forests)
and this contributes to accelerating ecosystem degradation and biodiversity decline.
Therefore, it is crucial to evaluate the wide range of benefits deriving from
ecosystem conservation, since the market system mainly rewards resource owners for
the benefits of ecosystem conversion. Today, this line of reasoning is vividly
reflected in the international policy agenda, and it is the approach taken by the
ongoing global study The Economics of Ecosystems & Biodiversity (TEEB) - a “major
international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of
biodiversity, to highlight the growing costs of biodiversity loss and ecosystem
degradation, and to draw together expertise from the fields of science, economics
and policy to enable practical actions moving forward”. Against this background, the
present Summer School aims to address key issues regarding biodiversity, its role
for the provision of ecosystem goods and services, and its value to human
livelihoods.
We shall define a set of lectures plus a session on case studies presented by
worldwide practitioners. The lectures will focus on (1) understanding of the role of
biodiversity and ecosystems and services in human welfare, (2) determining the value
of ecosystem goods and services and biodiversity conservation, with special emphasis
on the use of non-market economic valuation tools, including value transfer methods;
(3) cost-benefit analysis of alternative policy instruments, including payment for
ecosystem services. Finally, the last set of lectures will address communications of
real-case-studies from practitioners with international responsibilities in the
conservation of biodiversity.
FACULTY and LECTURE TOPICS
Giovanni Signorello, University of Catania, Italy
Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, University of Venice and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy
(School Coordinators)
Timothy Swanson, University College London, UK
The values of biodiversity.
John Gowdy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute New York, USA
Policy instruments, discounting and dynamics in cost benefit analysis.
Pushpam Kumar, University of Liverpool and TEEB Leader, UK
Valuation methodology for ecosystem services
Pere Riera, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Choice models to value ecosystems services
Rosimeiry Portela, Conservation International, USA
From science to action: Translating research into sound economic and social policies
Anil Markandya, University of Bath, UK and Basque Centre for Climate Changes (BC3),
Spain
and Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, University of Venice and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, Italy
Climate change impacts on biodiversity and ecosystems services: the costs of policy
inaction
ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The Summer School is targeted to postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on
the presentation by each student of his/her doctoral work; therefore PhD students
who want to apply normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at
least one substantive chapter, but not to have completely finished their thesis.
Application is restricted to 2010 EAERE members, both European and non European
citizens. Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the
number of participants is limited to 15.
There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for a scholarship.
For further information on application and funding please access the Summer School
Website at http://www.feem-project.net/belpasso_2010/ or contact the Summer School
Secretariat<mailto:
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Belpasso International Summer School Secretariat
c/o prof. Giovanni Signorello
DISEAE, Envalab
via Santa Sofia 98
95123 Catania
Italy
Tel. +39 095 7580320
Fax +39 095 7580345
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