New Publication: Surface vs. groundwater: The effect of forest cover on the costs of drinking water (2018)
Forests worldwide provide a variety of ecosystem services including carbon sequestration, soil protection and water purification. In particular, the minimal use of pesticides and fertilizers in forest operations coupled with the tree root system are associated with higher drinking water quality. However, forest coverage is expected to have a more […]
Results of Concurso de Estímulo ao Emprego Científico – CEEC Individual 2017 are out
A new paper by Renato Rosa and Rui Mota, entitled “Preference for Landings’ Smoothing and Risk of Collapse in Optimal Fishery Policies: The Ibero-Atlantic Sardine Fishery” has been published on Environmental and Resource Economics.
Best Paper Award: The Effects of Development Constraints on Forest Management at the Urban-Forest Interface
Maria Antonieta Cunha-e-Sá and Sofia Franco’s paper “The Effects of Development Constraints on Forest Management at the Urban-Forest Interface” received the Best Paper Award, by AERNA, the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resource Economics. The award ceremony took place at AERNA Conference (September 3-5).
Ongoing Projects
Sardinha 2020 – An Ecosystem Approach to Sardine Fisheries Management
This project combines the efforts of a large group of scientists with the final aim of delivering a Management Plan for the Portuguese purse-seiner fishery. The main task to be developed by Nova SBE Environmental Economics Knowledge Center is to develop a bioeconomic model for this fleet. By doing this project aims at contributing to further integrate economics into fishery policy advice. In particular, the bioeconomic model will be used to derive harvest control rules that endogenously captures economics aspects while using a population model framework that is the basis of most fish stock assessments and fishery management plans. Building upon the project’s results, the bioeconomic model will be extended to account for interactions between species and environmental impacts on targeted fish populations. By doing so, we aim also at contributing to foster the use of an ecosystem approach to fisheries management.
Past Projects
Integrating ecology and economics to design forest management practices
The purpose of this project is to deliver regional forestry/land use models, providing scientific tools to inform forest policy. It builds upon multidisciplinary work to develop state-of-the-art age/size structured and process based forest models for some of the main Portuguese tree species. We propose to evaluate the economic potential of […]
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