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International
Conference
Economics
of Poverty, Environment and
Natural Resource Use
Wageningen, The Netherlands
17-20 May 2006
Motivation and background
Abolishment of poverty is a tremendous challenge for the
global community. Although everyone agrees on the goal of
poverty reduction, policies often remain controversial or
ineffective. Given that livelihoods of millions are at stake,
there is an urgent need to reconsider the causes and remedies
of poverty. Poverty and its reduction are often linked to
the natural resources base. Local commons, like communal lands,
are difficult to manage and may be overused. The use of marine
resources in international waters will not be properly controlled
in the absence of binding international agreements. The state
of the environment affects living conditions of the poor and
poverty affects environmental quality. For instance, if firewood
needs in poor rural areas contribute to deforestation. Properly
managed resources and carefully designed institutions are
of utmost importance. The conference contributes to the economic
analysis of the relation between environmental and natural
resource management and poverty alleviation.
Scope and objectives
The scope of the conference stretches from theoretical to
empirical and policy studies, including cooperation for natural
resource management, economics of property rights and institutions,
bio-economic modelling, economics of agro-biodiversity and
studies linking international trade, poverty and the environment.
The objectives of the conference are threefold. First, the
conference provides a forum for studies on the links between
poverty and the environment. Micro level analysis will contribute
to a better understanding of barriers to escape from poverty
and resource depletion. Studies on the macro level will enhance
our understanding of the relations between sustainability,
growth, and poverty. Secondly, the conference facilitates
discussions on North-South relations in international trade
and environmental agreements. Insights from theoretical models
and empirical studies will directly help to shape local and
international policies to combat poverty and to improve natural
resource management. The role of environmental policies for
location choice of economic activities, for leakage of pollution
from the industrialised countries to the developing countries
and for trade in waste will be discussed. Thirdly, poverty
raises concerns about local and international justice and
good governance. The conference offers opportunities for formulating
policy responses and strategies for direct action and implementation.
Call for papers
The programme committee invites contributed papers. You are
kindly asked to submit your paper electronically as a pdf
file attachment before 31 January 2006 and addressed to conference.enr@wur.nl.
Papers from the NWO programme ‘Environment & Economics’
are especially invited. The following information should be
included in the paper:
• The title of the paper;
• Name(s) of author(s), with the surname of the paper
presenter in capital letters;
• Institutional affiliation of all authors;
• Complete postal and e-mail address of the paper presenter.
Notification of acceptance for oral or poster presentation
will be given before 1 March 2006. The deadline for submission
of final papers to be included in a CD-rom is 1 April 2006.
Publication
Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special
issue of Environment and Development Economics and in a book
on this specific topic to be published in the Wageningen UR
Frontis Series by Springer Press.
Topics
Suggested topics include:
Driving forces
• Economic analysis of poverty traps and remedies to
escape them
• Analysis of impacts of demographic pressure on the
resource base
• Resource use, economic growth and the environmental
Kuznets curve
• Options to foster pro-poor growth from sustainable
use of natural resources.
Institutional and policy aspects
• Economics of Good Governance - fair access to the
natural resource base as a means for production
• Options to support environmental governance in countries
in crises
• Resource conflicts involving and affecting indigenous
people
• Payments for environmental services to reduce poverty
and to protect biodiversity
• Impacts of environmental regulation and its enforcement
on poverty
• Environmental policies and food security.
International issues and the
role of technology transfer
• North-South technology transfers and, more specifically,
the role of GM crops for food security and biodiversity
• Greening foreign direct investments
• Transition management and industrial transformation
• Eco-efficient innovations
• Trade, environment and poverty: relocation of polluting
industries
• Impacts of international agreements: trade bans, technology
transfers, international fisheries conventions, WTO regulations
(e.g. textile trade regulations)
• Sharing rules for environmental costs and benefits
for policy design.
New developments in modelling
• Resource modelling and bio-economic modelling
• Game theoretical modelling of resource conflicts
• Modelling the impact of environmental policies.
Conference's
official web site
Please visit the conference's
official web site for further details.
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