Organisers
European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)
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The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) is a non-profit international scientific association. Interests span traditional economics, agricultural economics, forestry, and natural resource economics. Founded in 1990, EAERE has over 1200 members in 80 countries, from academic institutions, the public sector, and the private industry.
The aims of EAERE are: (a) to contribute to the development and application of environmental and resource economics as a science in Europe; (b) to encourage and improve communication between teachers, researchers and students in environmental and resource economics in the different European countries; (c) to develop and encourage cooperation between university level teaching institutions and research institutions in Europe.
Membership is open to individuals who by their profession, training and/or function are involved in environmental and resource economics as a science, and to institutions which operate in fields connected with the aims of the Association.
Through the Association's Journals, external pageEnvironmental and Resource Economicscall_made (ERE) and external pageReview of Environmental Economics and Policycall_made (REEP), the external pageAnnual Conferencecall_made, the annual external pageSummer and Winter Schoolscall_made, the biannual external pageNewslettercall_made, and affiliation with her sister association in North America (AERE), EAERE provides many forums for exchanging ideas relevant to the allocation and management of natural and environmental resources.
Chair of Economics/Resource Economics at ETH Zurich
Resource economics builds on a long tradition in economic theory and has now become an increasingly important, active and innovative area in disciplinary and interdisciplinary research. Fostered by the broad current interest in the notion of "sustainable development", economic analysis of natural resource use is a major issue in today's research agenda. The aim of sustainability calls for a coherent theoretical integration of the underlying social norms and the restrictions imposed by economic conditions. In particular, it has to be scrutinised in which way the state of the natural environment, especially the bounded supply of natural resources and energies, will limit economic development in the long run. Economic decisions, market prices, and environmental regulation are the main forces driving the stock of natural capital. Accordingly, economic theory and, in particular, resource economics, is challenged to provide adequate solutions for the trade-offs between environmental protection and economical needs faced by today's generations. Within the broader interdisciplinary approach to sustainability, research in resource economics has to be directed at finding and establishing the rules for a world society which is intrinsically compatible with its natural environment.
Research of the resource economics team at CER-ETH, the Center of Economic Research at ETH Zurich, covers a broad range of aspects regarding the relationship between exhaustible and renewable natural resources and pollution on the one hand and long-term economic development on the other. According to the inherent dynamic nature of resource problems, the recent research program of endogenous growth theory plays an important role. Moreover, the numerous global interdependencies result in the integration of trade theory.
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETH Zurich)
ETH Zurich – Where the future begins
Freedom and individual responsibility, entrepreneurial spirit and open-mindedness: ETH Zurich stands on a bedrock of traditional Swiss values. Our university for science and technology dates back to the year 1855, when the founders of modern-day Switzerland created it as a centre of innovation and knowledge. At ETH Zurich, students discover an ideal environment for independent thinking, researchers a climate which inspires top performance. Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering effective solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow.
Some 500 professors teach around 20,000 students – including 4,000 doctoral students – from over 120 countries. Their collective research embraces many disciplines: natural sciences and engineering sciences, architecture, mathematics, system-oriented natural sciences, as well as economics and social sciences. The results and innovations produced by ETH researchers are channelled into some of Switzerland’s most high-tech sectors: from computer science through to micro- and nanotechnology and cutting-edge medicine. ETH has an excellent reputation in scientific circles: 21 Nobel laureates have studied, taught or researched here, and in international league tables ETH Zurich regularly ranks as one of the world’s top universities.