http://www.efdinitiative.org daily 1 2007-11-25T17:36:13Z http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2012/phd-programme-in-climate-economics-at-the-university-of-gothenburg The Environmental Economics Unit (EEU) at the University of Gothenburg offers five full scholarships in a PhD programme in Climate Economics with admission September 2012. (Assuming the program will be financed). This program will be a continuation of the former program but with a heavier emphasis on Climate change as the prime environmental problem of our time. No publisher karinbackteman 2012-02-01T11:16:35Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2012/sterner-keynote-lecturer-at-eaaere-2012-in-indonesia Thomas Sterner, professor of environmental economics in University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and a fellow at Resource for the Future (RFF), is invited to give a keynote lecture on “The Design of Environmental Policy Instrument: Efficiency, Informational Requirements and Political Feasibility”at the 2nd Annual Conference of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE) at Bandung, Indonesia, on February 2-4, 2012. No publisher karinbackteman 2012-01-31T15:18:02Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2012/rff-activities-in-human-cooperation-to-manage-natural-resources-commons-program-2011 This is a brief report on Resources for the Future’s use of the Swedish Research Council, Formas, COMMONS program funding in the seven months since a May 2011 contract was signed. No publisher karinbackteman 2012-01-24T12:59:15Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2012/new-edition-policy-instruments-for-environmental-and-natural-resource-management This book by Thomas Sterner and Jessica Coria is an attempt to encourage more widespread and careful use of economic policy instruments. The book compares the accumulated experiences of the use of economic policy instruments in the U.S. and Europe, as well as in rich and poor countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Ambitious in scope, it discusses the design of instruments that can be employed in any country in a wide range of contexts, including transportation, industrial pollution, water pricing, waste, fisheries, forests, and agriculture. No publisher karinbackteman 2012-01-20T14:20:28Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2012/call-for-eaere-2012-and-for-european-summer-school Paper submission and registrations are open for EAERE 19th Annual Conference, 27-30 June 2012 in Prague, Czech Republic. Another event organized by EAERE next summer is the EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate students. The theme of this Summer School is Management of International Water. No publisher karinbackteman 2012-01-02T15:15:45Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/environmental-valuation-course-draws-participants-from-around-world-1 21 researchers and PhD students from across the globe currently attend the course Environmental Valuation that is held at School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg in Sweden 7 November – 9 December. A vivid interest in natural resources and environmental issues made them come from China, Costa Rica, Ethiopia, Kenya, South Africa, Sweden, Tanzania, Uruguay and Vietnam. No publisher karinbackteman 2011-12-02T10:06:26Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/fuel-taxes-and-the-poor-rff-efd-book-released Fuel Taxes and the Poor challenges the conventional wisdom that gasoline taxation, an important and much-debated instrument of climate policy, has a disproportionately detrimental effect on poor people. No publisher karinbackteman Climate Change Taxation Regulation Climate policy Equity and distributional analysis Transport Policy instruments 2011-11-11T08:46:20Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/allen-blackman-on-swedish-news Allen Blackman, EfD Research Fellow, said to the Swedish Radio today that organic certification of coffee do change farmers´behavior in a studied area in Colombia. Blackman is invited to a Policy Seminar, arranged by ENTWINED on October 20 in Stockholm, Sweden. No publisher karinbackteman 2011-10-18T17:15:08Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/call-for-papers-2011-symposium-on-economic-experiments-in-developing-countries December 1-3, 2011, Berkeley, California No publisher vivian 2011-09-29T08:23:54Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/calls-for-paper-the-2012-annual-world-bank-conference-on-land-and-poverty The 2012 Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty will take place in Washington, D.C. from April 24-25, 2011. No publisher vivian 2011-09-29T08:24:24Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/environmental-economics-unit-receives-collaboration-prize University of Gothenburg’s annual collaboration prize has been awarded to the Environmental Economics Unit (EEU), which is part of the Department of Economics at the School of Business, Economics and Law. The EEU receives the award for their extensive and continuous work to collaborate with public bodies, media and decision-makers, especially through their helpdesk for research-based environmental-economic analysis and advice-service for Swedish public bodies, as well as the Forest, Climate and Livelihood research network (Focali) and the Environment for Development initiative (EfD). No publisher karinbackteman 2011-09-28T11:23:49Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/agricultural-research-for-development-conference-2013-scales-diversity Agricultural Research for Development is an annual interdisciplinary and multi-stakeholder conference on agriculture, livestock and forest research in an international development context. Distinguished international guests will give key note presentations on pertinent research and/or developmental questions. Individual participants are invited to present their research/project in parallel sessions. This year´s conference will be held at Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences 28- 29 September 2011. No publisher karinbackteman 2011-08-25T07:34:27Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/the-efd-initiative-ranks-second-in-sida-tender-alongside-the-renowned-adam-smith-international-asi-consultancy No publisher vivian 2011-06-15T15:03:06Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/the-2nd-eaaere-annual-congress-2012-bandung-indonesia The East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (EAAERE) is conducting its 2nd Annual Congress in Bandung, Indonesia on February 2-4, 2012. Paper submission is now open! No publisher vivian 2011-06-15T15:06:44Z Article http://www.efdinitiative.org/centers/eeu-sweden/news-press/news-archive/2011/optimum-tax-on-foreign-fishing-in-africa-protects-stocks-and-domestic-fishing Press release from University of Gothenburg, School of Business, Economics and Law, Environmental Economics unit, 24 May 2011 No publisher karinbackteman 2011-05-30T12:08:12Z Article