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The Scientific Partners of BIOECON are pleased to announce the Twenty-fourth International BIOECON Conference on the theme of “Biodiversity and the Sustainable Development Goals”. The Conference will be held at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain, on 31^st August – 1^st September 2023. BIOECON XXIII will be of interest to both researchers and policymakers working on issues associated with finance and economics and their impact on biodiversity.

Conference keynote speakers will be Professor Erin Sills (NC State University) and Rashid Sumaila (U. British Columbia).

In addition to the conference theme, BIOECON XXIV aims to have parallel sessions on a broad range of topics within the umbrella of biodiversity economics and the sustainable develppment goals, including: marine and ocean economics, the role of biodiversity and ecosystem services in economic development, plant genetic resources and food security issues, deforestation and development, fisheries, institutions and instruments (e.g. Payments for Ecosystem Services), development and conservation, wildlife conservation and endangered species, international trade and regulation and climate change. Further, biodiversity finance, risk assessment and corporate disclosure, corporate governance structure and process, organisational change, valuation and investor behaviour are highly welcomed for submission. For a flavour of previous conferences go to this link http://www.bioecon-network.org/pages/events-01.html.

In particular, submissions are invited on the themes of:

• Instruments for conservation in the context of land-use and biodiversity
• Evaluation of biodiversity-related policies and programmes
• The use of spatial data to study impacts on biodiversity and conservation programmes
• The conservation and value of crop genetic diversity
• Institutional frameworks for resource conservation (property rights, market instruments etc.)
• The role of behavioural economics in biodiversity conservation policy design
• Experimental (lab and field) approaches to biodiversity and ecosystem service conservation
• Institution-building for provision of global public goods
• Issues of governance and management of natural resources in developing countries
• Development, growth and resource constraints
• Resources management, distribution, development, poverty alleviation.
• Resource restauration
• Experimental or survey research on the households’, investors’, or executives’ biodiversity preferences or beliefs.

BIOECON also has the goal of influencing policy-makers and policy. To this end expert policy panels will be organised. The purpose of these panels will be to bring together practitioners (Government, private sector, NGO) and academics from different disciplines to discuss current policy-related issues in biodiversity conservation and the environment. The panel sessions will be supported by and contribute to the aims and goals of the funding partners. The precise composition of the Policy Panels is to be announced. The first will focus

Further, a pre-conference tour guide of the most relevant historical places of downtown UNESCO site Santiago de Compostela will take place on Wednesday  30^th September 2023. Attending this activity is at no extra cost, though you will need to be in Santiago de Compostela at 16h on the 30^th of September. You’ll also need to ensure that you bring suitable footwear. Those who may wish to stay over the weekend are invited to a excursion along the Galician cost.  We will visit on Saturday a few villages along the Galician coast, getting up to the area named “Death Coast.” The name was given because of the large number of shipwrecks.  We will finish our excusion walking on the Carnota beach, one of the largest and nicest beaches in Galicia, where we will be having an informal lunch.  We hope that this will be a nice environment for those who want to attend to come together before and after the conference.

The Conference will open with a drinks reception (and food) at Pazo Fonseca on Wednesday 30^th August, at 19.30h. Conference sessions will commence on the morning of the 31^th August and conclude on the afternoon of the 1^st September. The conference banquet will take place at the on the evening of the 31^st August at Hotel San Francisco.

SUBMISSIONS
Complete papers may be submitted for presentation within the BIOECON Conference and only complete papers will be considered by the Scientific Programme Committee. Electronic copies should be sent to bioecon@bioecon-network.org no later than Monday 22^rd May 2023. Please include Abstract, JEL Codes and Keywords with your submission. Acceptance of papers will be notified by email by Monday 5^th June 2023. If you wish to be considered for a bursary (details below) please indicate this when you apply. Applying for a bursary will not affect whether your paper is selected (indeed, the paper may be accepted even if we are unable to offer a bursary).

It is also possible to submit 3-4 papers together as a suggested “special session” under a theme similar to those indicated above. The Scientific Partners reserve the right to accept papers on an individual basis, so it is possible that even when a session is not accepted, individual papers within the session might be so.

Once again BIOECON XXIII welcomes suggestions for a special natural sciences or interdisciplinary parallel session to foster more interdisciplinary collaboration with the BIOECON network. Sessions proposed should focus on any aspect of biodiversity conservation and ecosystem services and need not be exclusively focussed on economic methodologies or approaches.

REGISTRATION

In-person attendees will be charged €260 to cover: accommodation (on a B&B basis on San Martin Pinario) on the 30^th and 31^st of August; drinks reception on 30^th of August; banquet dinner on the 1^st; lunch and teas and coffees on 31 ^st and 1^st. Accommodation (on a B&B basis) is also available for the nights of the 1^st and 2^nd, at €80/night at different prebooked hotels in town. The planned excursion is at no additional charge.

For presenters who wish to present virtually there will be a fee of €120. Virtual attendees who are not presenting are welcome to attend free of charge. All other questions regarding fees, registrations and accommodation should be sent to the conference secretariat at bioecon@bioecon-network.org.

There will be a limited number of bursaries made available which will allow some presenters to attend free of charge (though they will NOT cover travel to the conference). These will be directed towards PhD students and early career researchers, and particularly those who are based at institutions in the Global South. As noted above, please indicate if you would like to apply for a bursary when submitting your paper.

Registration will open on 29^th May 2023. Registration for all in-person conference attendees, and presenters (whether in person or virtual) is due by Tuesday 4^th July 2023. It may be possible for in-person attendees who are not presenting to register later than this, but such places cannot be guaranteed. Registration for all virtual attendance-only (i.e. not presenting) will be open until the start of the conference.

Further registration details and all other conference information will be provided on the BIOECON website at www.bioecon-network.org.

The 1st Swiss workshop on Environmental, Resource and Energy Economics will be held at CEPE in Zürich on 10 November 2023.

The SERE workshop is intended as a forum for the development and application of theoretical and empirical methods in environmental, resource and energy economics for EAERE members.

The format of the 2023 workshop will be plenary presentations (i.e., no concurrent sessions) followed by short discussions and egg-timer sessions. Overall, the scientific committee will select approximately 15 papers.

The papers will be selected on the basis of extended abstracts (3 – 5 pages) structured as follows: 1) overview, 2) methods, 3) data, and 4) preliminary results.

The deadline for submitting the extended abstracts (in PDF format) is October 1st, 2023. The abstracts will be reviewed by the Scientific Committee (see below), with acceptance decisions notified by October 15th, 2023. The extended abstract should be attached as PDF file to email sent to the workshop address (emee-workshop@ethz.ch). Please write “SERE paper submission”.

Registration will be possible from October 16^th, 2023 till October 31^th, 2023 (registration fee CHF 50). Final papers / presentations need to be submitted by November 6, 2023.

About the venue:

The conference will take place at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zürich.

EMEE Scientific Committee (members of EAERE):

• Lint Barrage, CEPE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Lucas Bretschger, CEPE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
• Salvatore Di Falco, Department of Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland
• Massimo Filippini, CEPE, ETH Zurich and USI, Switzerland
• David Hemous, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Beat Hintermann, Department of Economics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
• Sébastien Houde, Department of Economics, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
• Lint Barrage, CEPE, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Switzerland
• Ralph Winkler, Department of Economics, University of Bern, Switzerland

Organizer:

• Massimo Filippini, CEPE at ETH Zurich and USI, Switzerland and EAERE country representative for Switzerland

The workshop is organized with the support of EAERE.

Please send all queries to the workshop address (emee-workshop@ethz.ch).

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