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- 2008-11-12 Sterner discussant at AFD/EUDN 2008 in Paris Professor Thomas Sterner was invited as a discussant to a conference in Paris on Nov 12th, entitled Population and natural resources: Managing Pressure, and organised by the French development assistance AFD, Agence Française de Développement, and EUDN, the European Development Research Network.
- 2008-10-29 World Bank and the Role of Institutions in SEA This seminar was held as part of the institutional collaboration between the Department of Economics, University of Gothenburg and the World Bank Environment Department. Presenter was Dr Fernando Loayza, Senior specialist in Strategic Environmental Assessment at the World Bank and coordinator of the World Bank pilot program on Institutions Centered SEA.
- 2008-10-28 Institutions Centered Strategic Environmental Assessment This workshop, organized by the Environmental Economics Helpdesk at EEU, in Gothenburg, Sweden, October 27-28 2008, was held to reflect on the role of institutions and political economy in policy level environmental assessment in a developing country perspective.
- 2008-09-08 Sustainable Development Officer position at UN Sustainable Development Officer position, P-3 UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs New York
- 2008-06-26 Ed Barbier spoke at the Preconference on Environment and Development A great number of researchers working on environment and development issues were participating in the conference EAERE 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden, June 26-28. Therefore, a special preconference on environment and development was arranged on June 25, in connection with EAERE 2008.
- 2008-06-25 2008 EAERE annual conference in Gothenburg The 2008 EAERE annual conference in Gothenburg focuses on climate change and environmental issues in developing countries. The 16th annual conference of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) is to be held here at the School of Business, Economics and Law, June 25-28, 2008.
- 2008-06-24 EfD research workshop in connection with EAERE An EfD research workshop was held on June 24 at the Environmental Economics Unit, in connection with the EAERE 2008 conference
- 2008-05-21 Land Titling, A Blessing or a Curse? Professor Jintao Xu, professor of economics at Peking University and Coordinator of the EfD in China, will share the experiences of the recent rapid reform of collective forestry in China at a seminar titled Agriculture, land markets and development on May 22 in Sweden. It is one in a series of seminars at the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry to follow up the World Development Report 2008 – Agriculture for Development.
- 2008-05-21 First publication in EfD book series The Emergence of Land Markets in Africa is the first publication in the new Environment for Development (EfD) book series.
- 2008-04-21 WB presents Global Monitoring Report at Sida, Sweden Anders Ekbom, from Sida Helpdesk for Environmental Economics, participates in a panel discussion on this year’s Global Monitoring Report, when the report is presented by the World Bank at Sida in Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday 25 April.
- 2008-04-02 Research officer position at EEU, Sweden Research officer position at the EfD Secretariat, Environmental Economics Unit, Sweden.
- 2008-02-25 Parks lectures for the tenth year at the EEU Peter Parks, Professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA, is here at the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) to lecture in the advanced graduate course Natural Resource Economics. Parks is widely acclaimed as a professor and this is the tenth year he has been asked to come here to teach PhD students – this year 32 of them from 17 countries.
- 2008-01-28 Gardner Brown honored by AERE Professor Emeritus Gardner Brown, EfD Research Associate, is honored by the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists with two different awards.
- 2008-01-24 Sterner President of EAERE 2008-2009 Professor Thomas Sterner, who is chair of the EfD Research Committee, is elected President of The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) 2008-2009.
- 2008-01-23 Soil knowledge can improve environment and save lives Knowledge about soil can reduce damage to the environment and save lives. This is what environmental economist Anders Ekbom shows in his doctoral thesis on soil capital, land use and agricultural production in Kenya. Such knowledge is important for a large number of developing countries in Africa, Asia and Central America.
- 2007-11-28 Juan Camilo Cardenas visited the EEU Juan Camilo Cardenas from the University of Los Andes visited the department from November 26 to November 28. He was the faculty opponent at the thesis defense of Marcela Ibanez. He also gave a seminar on “The dynamics of rules and common-pool resources.”
- 2007-11-09 EfD Annual Meeting The first annual meeting for EfD, Environment for Development initiative, took place November 5-9, 2007, in Cape Town. All research fellows from the EfD centers, as well as a number of collaborators, were invited. The program included presentations and discussions of EfD work in progress as well as interactions to develop next year’s research program.
- 2007-10-29 Swedish minister inaugurated EfD in China Sweden´s Minister for Enterprise and Energy, Maud Olofsson inaugurated the new Chinese research institute of environmental economics that Peking University has started in collaboration with the Environmental Economics Unit, School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg.
