BIOECON

8th International BIOECON Conference on
"Economic Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity"

Kings College Cambridge , 29-30 August 2006

PROGRAMME AND PAPERS

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	Sauer	Foudi
Session 2
Optimal Conservation Programme Design
Chair: Skonhoft
Room:
Title of papers:	Presenter	Discussant
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	Larsen	Ohl
Fund raising for species protection in national parks: limitations and opportunities of nature-based tourism	Friedl	Hunter
Session 3
Conflicts in biodiversity conservation: pests, invasive, and parasites.
Chair: Pascual
Room: TBC
Title of papers:	Presenter	Discussant
A bug's life: competition among species towards the environment	Bella	Swinton
An application of Weitzman's libraries model for biodiversity preservation with parasites	Shamir	Bella
A Natural Enemies – Adjusted Economic Thresholds for Pest Control	Swinton	Kaiser
Beyond the Lamppost: Optimal Prevention and Control of the Brown Treesnake in Hawaii	Kaiser	Shamir
Session 4
IFPRI Session: Agricultural Biodiversity and Economic Development
Chair: Smale		Room:
Room: TBC

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
Room: TBC
Title of papers:	Presenter