Call for Applications - 2012 EAERE-FEEM-VIU European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics, July 1-7, Venice, Italy
Deadline for applications: February 1st, 2012
The
European
Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione
Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Venice
International University (VIU) are pleased to announce their annual
European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics for postgraduate
students.
The 2012 Summer School will take place from 1st to
7th July, at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice,
located just in front of St. Mark’s Square. The theme of this Summer School
is Management of International Water.
Water flow
patterns do not recognize political borders. Water utilization is associated
with high dependency among users and may lead to negative externalities. As such
international water management practices are hard to design and implement.
Economic development leads to increased pollution, over pumping, and these in
turn may lead to increased tension among states that share a given river basin.
With about 40% of the river basins in the world being shared among two or more
nations, together with the above-mentioned trends in water quantity and quality,
international water increasingly becomes a public concern.
The Nile river basin, for example, is shared by 11 riparian
states. It particularly attracted the attention of the world in the late 1990s
when demands for water from African riparians, which previously did not make
serious demands of the Nile, triggered international concern for possible
instability in the region. Further, the mismanagement of the Aral Sea Basin,
during Soviet times, has led to an environmental catastrophe and social
disasters that the five basin republics have been facing since independence.
After almost a decade and a half, and hundreds of millions of dollars spent,
there are still many water management deficiencies attributed mainly to the
international nature of the problem.
Issues affecting international water
management are quite similar to those in domestic basins, except that the level
of complexity is amplified due to the transboundary dimension of the resource.
Therefore, additional disciplines and methodologies are necessary in addressing
international water management. The most critical issues in international water
management include (1) transboundary pollution, which can have direct and
indirect regional externalities on humans and ecosystems; (2) water allocation
among states and sectors, such as irrigation and hydropower, and/or navigation
in some international basins; and (3) environmental and human rights aspects of
water allocation.
Addressing these issues in the context of international
water requires various disciplines such as negotiation theory, planning and
economic analysis, institutional analysis, and game theory. Some of the
disciplines interact to provide a better understanding of difficulties and
opportunities in managing international water.
This summer school course
intends to focus on several aspects of international water management that have
been emerging form recent work in several disciplines. Issues to be addressed
include negotiation, management models, regional development, global climate
change, and transboundary pollution. The faculty of this summer school course
will use both theory and various examples and case studies. The theory will be
presented in the first part and the examples and applications will be included
in the second part of each lecture. Through, economics, international relations,
game theory, and modeling, the students will be exposed to the interdisciplinary
nature of international water management.
FACULTY and LECTURE TOPICS
Ariel DINAR, University of
California, Riverside, USA (School Coordinator)
Economics of cooperation and
treaty stability impact of water scarcity and variability on stability of
international agreements
Erik ANSINK, IVM, VU
University Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Application of game theory to
international water allocation issues
Shlomi DINAR, Florida
International University, USA
International water law, international
relations and negotiations
Ines DOMBROWSKY, Helmholtz
Centre for Environmental Research – UFZ, Germany
International water and
institutions
Linda FERNANDEZ, Virginia
Commonwealth University, USA
International water pollution conflicts-game
theory
ADMISSION AND SCHOLARSHIPS
The Summer School is targeted to
postgraduate students. Admission is conditional on the presentation of every
student's doctoral work; therefore PhD students who want to apply normally need
to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter,
but not to have completely finished their thesis.
Application is restricted
to 2012 EAERE members, both European and non European citizens. Given the highly
interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants
is limited to 20.
There is no participation fee. All applicants can apply for
a scholarship.
For further information on application and funding please access the Summer School Website at www.feem.it/ess/ or contact the Summer School Secretariat.
Contact information |
Summer School Secretariat Chiara Zanandrea Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
(email: ess@feem.it ) |
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News type | Nomination |
File link |
http://www.feem.it/ess/ |
Source of information | FEEM |
Subject(s) | FINANCE-ECONOMY , HYDRAULICS - HYDROLOGY , INFORMATION - COMPUTER SCIENCES , METHTODOLOGY - STATISTICS - DECISION AID , NATURAL MEDIUM , RISKS AND CLIMATOLOGY |
Relation | http://www.eaere.org/ |
Geographical coverage | Italy, |
News date | 13/01/2012 |
Working language(s) | ENGLISH |