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16th BIOECON Conference

A conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation.

The program was well structured with great hospitality; I've been raving about it to my colleagues!

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Dr Ben Groom (LSE) and Dr Andreas Kontoleon (Cambridge Land Economy) co-hosted the 16th annual BioEcon conference on the economics of biodiversity conservation (22-23 September 2014). The conference was held at the majestic buildings of King's College Cambridge and was attended by over 140 delegates from academia and the policy world.

The conference provided the opportunity to exchange information on the latest developments on the economics of biodiversity and conservation. This year's keynote speakers were Professor Christian Gollier (Toulouse School of Economics) and Professor James Salzman (Duke University). The conference contained parallel presentations and special policy sessions were held on "Climate Change and Ecosystem Services" and "Natural Capital Accounting, Biodiversity and Ecosystems". Lastly, an important pre-conference training workshop was held (co-organised with the UNEP) on "Building Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into National Policy" attended by over 100 delegates primarily from the developing world whilst the training seminars were provided by BioEcon scientific partners. BioEcon was generously funded by UNEP, The Graduate Institute in Geneva, FEEM, The Grantham Research Institute (LSE), IUCN, CSIRO and IIED.

BioEconDetails of the 2014 conference and pre-conference training workshop can be found here: http://www.bioecon-network.org/

BIOECON CONFERENCE FEEDBACK from participants:

“The conference and the workshop that preceded it were extremely useful for me - a great way to get back in touch with the world of economics, which I’ve been out of for some time. So many thanks! ”

“BIOECON was the most relevant conference I’ve ever been to"

“it was a great conference because everyone left wanting more”.

“On behalf of IIED, would like to thank you for your excellent contributions to make the session a success……. we would also like to thank the organisers for the extraordinary hospitality and making all the necessary arrangements. Congratulations on a VERY successful event!!” Participants from IIED on their Monday session on Choice Experiments on PES.

“The event helped me in making important contacts, developing new ideas for future studies and to love more the economics about natural resources and environment. I´m more determined to put more effort in my future research”.

“The program was well structured with great hospitality; I've been raving about it to my colleagues! Hope to attend again in the future.”