European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
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- to contribute to the development and application of environmental and resource economics as a science in Europe,
- to encourage and improve communication between teachers, researchers and students in environmental and resource economics in the different European countries,
- to develop and encourage cooperation between university level teaching institutions and research institutions in Europe.
The Association is a non-profit organization whose revenues must be used exclusively and completely for furthering these aims. The aims of the Association are mainly accomplished by organising workshops, conferences, events, exhibitions, seminars, meetings, and discussions, by cooperating in editing professional journals, and by promoting postgraduate education for junior scholars. Founded in 1990, EAERE has over 1.000 members from Europe and beyond, from academic institutions, the public sector, and the private industry. Interests span traditional economics, agricultural economics, forestry, and natural resource economics.
Annual Conferences
Each year, EAERE organises its Annual Conference, an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics in environmental and resource economics. Every year, approximately 700 participants convene to the EAERE Annual Conferences in the spirit of economic discovery, research, analysis and collaboration. Conferences are held in European countries and unite European participants together with their national and international neighbours. The activities of the Annual Conference include keynote speeches and policy panels, contributed papers presented in parallel sessions, and the EAERE General Assembly of the members. Every four years since 1998, EAERE's Annual Conference is held within the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, an important international event organised together with our sister Association AERE (Association of Environmental and Resource Economists).Next years’ conferences:
- 28 June – 2 July 2010, Montreal Canada – 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists
- 29 June - 2 July 2011, Rome, Italy - 18th EAERE Annual Conference
Educational Outreach
Each year, EAERE, the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and Venice International University, jointly organise in Venice the European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics. This Summer School series provides advanced training to European PhD students in specialised topics relating to the field of environmental and resource economics. The topic varies every year and reflects lively areas of current research and policy interest. From 2006 to 2009, the Summer School series was granted financial support from the European Community's Six Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.Next year’s Summer Schools:
- 4-11 July 2010, Venice, Italy, Climate Change Negotiations
Official Journal
The journal Environmental and Resource Economics (ERE)Environmental and Resource Economics (ERE)
Environmental and Resource Economics is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering environmental economics published monthly in three volumes per year. It is the official journal of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists...
is the official journal of EAERE. The primary concern of ERE is the application of economic theory and methods to environmental issues and problems that require detailed analysis in order to improve management strategies. The Journal provides a forum for the further exploration of the causes, consequences and policy responses linked to these topics, across a range of spatial and temporal scales up to the global dimension. Areas of particular interest include: evaluation and development of instruments of environmental policy; cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis; sectoral environmental policy impact analysis; modelling and simulation; institutional arrangements; resource pricing and the valuation of environmental goods; environmental quality indicators. The editors wish to encourage a pluralistic approach to both theoretical and applied contributions.
Newsletter
EAERE provides its members with a biannual Newsletter, which is published in late May and late November. It is meant as an outlet for professional news. It includes workshop announcements, job offers, and other relevant information. It is a means of exchange about the role that environmental economics serves in Europe and the direction that this research field should take.Awards
Thank to the generous support of the Kempe Foundation, EAERE biannually confers the Erik Kempe Award to the best paper in the field of environmental and resource economics, published in a refereed journal by an author affiliated to a European research institution.EAERE also recognises outstanding achievement in two areas in contemporary scholarship through the European Lifetime Achievement Award in Environmental Economics and the European Practitioner Achievement in Applying Environmental Economics.