8th International BIOECON Conference on "Economics Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity" Kings College Cambridge , 29-30 August 2006.
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TUESDAY 29TH OF AUGUST
Session 1
Agro biodiversity and ecosystems
Title of papers:
Presenter
Discussant
Rainfall Shocks, Resilience and the Dynamic Effects of Crop Biodiversity on the Productivity of Agroecosystems
Di Falco
Huntala
Estimations of Soil Biodiversity and Agricultural Production Interactions
Foudi
Sauer
Bees, coffee, and poverty: How alternative policy instruments and ownership structures affect technology choice?
Huhtala
di Falco
Prices and Species Diversity -Stochastic Efficiency Frontier
Session 2
Optimal Conservation Programme Design
Chair: Skonhoft
Room:
Managing Land Use and Land Cover Change in the biodiversity context with regard to Efficiency, Equality and Ecological Effectiveness
Ohl
Larsen
Noah’s non-concavity: On the existence of non-trivial interior solutions to the problem of cost effective conservation planning
Hunter
Friedl
Farmers’ participation in agri-environmental programs and impact on farm performance: an empirical analysis applied to Swedish Agriculture
Fund raising for species protection in national parks: limitations and opportunities of nature-based tourism
Session 3
Conflicts in biodiversity conservation: pests, invasive, and parasites.
Chair: Pascual
Room: TBC
A bug's life: competition among species towards the environment
Bella
An application of Weitzman's libraries model for biodiversity preservation with parasites
Shamir
A Natural Enemies – Adjusted Economic Thresholds for Pest Control
Swinton
Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii
Kaiser
Session 4
IFPRI Session: Agricultural Biodiversity and Economic Development
Chair: Smale
Leslie Lipper (FAO)
Ruth Meinzen-Dick (IFPRI)
Peter Hazell (Imperial College London)
Mauricio Bellon (IPGRI)
Session 5
Advances in fishery bio-economic modelling
Chair: Halsema