March 22nd - 26th, 2004, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Workshop - follow up of the First School on Ecological Economics

- Short Description
- Programme
- Students Presentations
- Resource Persons
- Lecture Notes
- Logistical Information
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Short Description

During this week, a group of participants of the "1st School on Ecological Economics" (January 27th - February 28th, 2003) will be invited to make their own presentations on topics within the EEE Programme. Out of the twenty or so participants, the best five to ten participants will be invited to visit the ICTP in October 4th-8th, 2004 to develop their manuscripts into publishable papers, with the scientific supervision and assistance from the EEE Programme.

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Programme
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Students Presentations

Elena BOJILOVA, Bulgaria (last updated: 10.03.04)
An Overview of Integrated Flood-Losses Management

Jetske BOUMA
, India (last update: 23.03.04)
Local participation in soil and water conservation in India's semi-arid watersheds

Vikram DAYAL
, India
Social diversity and ecological complexity:Biologically invasive Prosopis juliflora and villager extraction

Subrata MANDAL
, India
Wellbeing from Exhaustible Resource Use: Case Study of the Oil Sector of an Economy

Jane MARIARA, Kenya (last update: 05.04.04)
Optimal Resource Allocation in Socio-Ecological Systems: Implications for Sustainability in Kenyan Rangelands

Astrid NUNEZ, Sweden
Optimal Conservation Areas: Adding Biological corridors and Stochastic Events to the Basic Model
Simulations of Policy Impacts on Environmental Risk Analysis: Applied to Oil Production in Tropical Rainforest

Carlos SALDARRIGA, Chile (last updated: 16.03.04)
Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in the Protection of an Endagered Species: the Case of Huemul (Hippocamelus bisulcus) in Chile

Aneel SALMAN
, Pakistan
An epidemiological and economic analysis carried out for the determination of causes of disease through the study and comparison of large populations of people living in different locations or following different lifestyles and/or habits in their labor productivity.

Chavratil SHYLAJAN
, India
Coastal Mangrove Ecosystem, Fisheries and Fishermen's Welfare: Mangrove-Fishery Linkages and Valuation

Pichika SRINIVASU, India (last updated: 16.03.04)
Regime shifts in Eutrophied Lakes: A Mathematical Study
The Role of Systems Modelling in Policy: A study of Keoladeo National Park (KNP) India

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Resource Persons
Anne Sophie Crepin, The Beijer Institute, Sweden
Karl-Göran Mäler, The Beijer Institute, Sweden

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Lecture Notes (Last update: 16.04.03)

Clark, 1989, Mathematical bioeconomics The optimal management of renewable resources Wiley, Second edition.

Costa Duarte, 1994, "Renewable Resource Market Obeying Difference Equations: Stable Points, Stable Cycles, and Chaos", Environmental and Resource Economics 4(4) pp353-382, August.

Crépin, Economics and Ecosystems Multiple Species, Chaos and Thresholds

Crépin, 2002, "Tackling the Economics of Ecosystems", Dissertations in Economics 2002:6, Department of Economics, Stockholm University.

Crépin, 2004 Using Fast and Slow Processes to Manage Coral Reef Fisheries with Threshold Effects, Beijer Discussion Paper 185.

Dasgupta and Mäler, 2003, "The Economics of Non Convex Ecosystems", Special issue in Environmental and Resource Economics. 26(4) December.

Loza, The slash and burn agriculture

Mäler, Wealth and well being in a model with discrete time

Wirl, 2004, "Thresholds in concave renewable resource models" Ecological Economics, 48, pp 259-267.

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Logistical Information
The workshop will be held in the ICTP Campus, in the Adriatico Guesthouse (Lower Level, Lundqvist Lecture Room).
For information about how to reach ICTP, please click here
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