The 7th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics

Ulvön, June 19 - 21, 2000

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PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
 
 

Monday, June 19

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08.30 Bus from the Umeå Plaza Hotel

10.00 Bus from Örnsköldsvik Airport (OER)

11.45 Boat from Docksta to Ulvön

12.30 Arrival and Lunch

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Opening Remarks: Bengt Kriström, SLU
 
 
 

14.00 Session 1 Chair: E. Romstad

 

14.00-15.15 M Whitby: The Limits of Contracting for Environmental Public Goods


15.15 -15.45 D. Kullman "Possibilities to use a tendering  procedure for nature protection  – the case of Björkö  Island"

15.45 - 16.00 Break

16.00 -16.30 G.  Marshall "Participative Planning and Informal Self-Governance of Agri-Environmental Conflicts: Lessons from a Survey of Australian Farmers Facing Irrigation Salinity"

16.30 - 17.00  T. Aronsson "International Cooperation over Green Taxes: On the Impossibility of Achieving a Probability one gain"

17.00 - 17.30 M. Ahn ‘A Caveat: is Non-Product Related PPMs in Eco-Labelling Criteria Efficient?’

17.30 - 18.00 T. Lundgren "Abatement Investments and Green Goodwill – An Empirical Application to the Swedish Pulp Industry"
 
 

19.00 Welcome Dinner
 
 

Tuesday, June 20

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09.00 Session 2 Chair: M. Whitby

 

09.00-10.15     D. Bromley: The Two Realms of Reason: Sentiment and Calculation


10.15-10.45 A. Borge "Property Rights and Natural Resource Utilisation. A Bioeconomic Model
with numerical illustrations from the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem".
10.45-11.00 Break

11.00-11.30 M. Nieuwoudt "Local resource conflicts in developing countries with reference to water and  energy and related environmental issues in South Africa."

11.30-12.00 A. Crepin "Ecosystem perspective in multi- use management of boreal forests"
 

12.00-13.15 Lunch
 
 

13.15 Session 3 Chair: K.-G. Löfgren


13.15-13.45 G. Asheim: The Hartwick Rule: Myths and Facts

13.45-14.15 E. Naevdal "Thresholds in discrete time optimal control models"

14.15-14.45 E. Romstad "Mixing Mandatory and Voluntary Regulation in the Regulation of Land Resources"
 

14.45-15.00 Break
 

15.00 Session 4 Chair: J. Wilen


15.00-15.30 C.-E. Schultz "On the Economics of Ecological Nuisance"

15.30-16.00 A. Skonhoft "Managing a moose population in Norway:  Hunting benefits, grazing damages and conflicts"

16.00-16.30 O. Bergland "Optimal Management of Two Interlinked Renewable Resources:
Moose and Pine in Norway"

16.30-16.45  Break

16.45 -17.15 T. Laitila "A Misspecification test for Models of Multinomial Distributions"

17.15-17.45  A. Paulrud " Random Errors in RUM Models of CVM Data"
 
 

19.00 Seine Sweep (Fishing Trip with Dinner)
 
 

Wednesday, June 21

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09.00 Session 5 Chair: D. Bromley

 

09.00-10.15 J. Wilen  "Incorporating Space into Models of Renewable Resource Use"


10.15-10.45 M. Boman: "The Bioeconomics of the Spatial Distribution  of an Endangered Species - The Case of the   Swedish Wolf Population"

10.45-11.15 H. Scharin "Nutrient management for coastal areas"

11.15-11.45  K. Elofsson "Cost efficient reductions of stochastic nutrient loads to the
Baltic Sea"
 
 
 
 
 

11.45 Lunch
 
 

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13.00 Departure by boat to Docksta

14.00 Bus to Örnsköldsvik/Umeå

15.00 Arrival at Örnsköldsvik Airport

16.30 Arrival at Umeå Airport