Programme - Frontiers 2

EUROPEAN APPLICATIONS IN ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS, Tenerife, 12-15 February 2003

Updated 5 February 2003

Venue: Hotel Maritim, Puerto de La Cruz / Los Realejos, Tenerife, Spain


Tuesday, 11 February 2003
Sunrise: 07:47 Sunset: 18:52
14:00 - 17:15

Registration
Hall

17:30 - 18:45

Pre-Conference Guest Lecture: Complexity, Precaution and Diversity: Opportunities for Policy Engagement
by Andrew STIRLING, University of Sussex, UK
Maritim I Room

19:00 - 21:00

Welcome Reception
(supported by the Town Council of Los Realejos)

Bar Corsario, Lower Swimming Pool


Wednesday, 12 February 2003

Sunrise: 07:46 Sunset: 18:53
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Buenavista Restaurant
08:30 - 09:15

Registration
Teide Room
Putting Up Posters

Maritim II Room

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome
by Salvador GARCÍA LLANOS, Mayor of Puerto de la Cruz
by José Vicente GONZÁLEZ HERNÁNDEZ, Mayor of Los Realejos
by Federico AGUILERA KLINK and Juan SÁNCHEZ GARCÍA, FRONTIERS 2 Organisers
Maritim I Room
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Speech I: Ecological Distribution Conflicts in a Context of Uncertainty
by Joan MARTÍNEZ ALIER, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Maritim I Room
Questions from the floor (45 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
11:30 - 13:00 Plenary Speech II: Multicriteria Evaluation and Participation: In Search for Theoretical Foundations
by Sigrid STAGL, University of Leeds, UK
Maritim I Room
Questions from the floor (45 minutes)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (Please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant
15:00 - 16:30 PARALLEL SESSION I (3 parallel topics)

Participatory Decision Processes I
Timanfaya Room
Chair: Serafin Corral

KENYON, Wendy: The use of Citizens' Juries in Water Resource Management

WOODHOUSE, Philip: Renegotiating the past. Implementing the National Water Act in South Africa

VIDEIRA, Nuno ANTUNES, Paula SANTOS, Rui & LOBO, Gonçalo: Participatory methods for integrated river basin management

 

Business and Sustainability I
Maritim I Room
Chair:
Felix Rauschmayer

VIEIRA, Ricardo DOMINGOS, Tiago CANAVEIRA, Paulo & SIMOES, Ana: Biophysical aggregation in life cycle assessment: comparative economic ecological evaluation of eucalyptus and industrial hemp fibres

OMANN, Ines: Product service systems and their impacts on sustainable development

WINKLER, Ralph & BAUMGÄRTNER, Stefan: Price ambivalence on the German waste paper market.
stylized facts and a dynamic model

 

Ecologic and Economic Models
Palma Room
Chair: Jörg Köhn

SCHMID, Erwin & HOFREITHER, Marcus: Designing a green payment program for two Austrian watersheds

JOHST, Karin DRECHSLER, Martin & WÄTZOLD, Frank: An ecological-economic modelling to calculate compensation payments for conservation management

QUAAS, Martin MÜLLER, Birgit FRANK, Karin WISSEL, Christian & BAUMGÄRTNER, Stefan: Sustainable management of semiarid rangelands. an ecological-economic model and the example of the Gamis farm

16:30 - 17:00 Tea/Coffee Break with Poster Session
Buenavista Terrace
17:00 - 18:30 ESEE General Meeting of Members
18:30 - 20:00 FOCUSED GROUP DISCUSSION I (3 parallel groups)
 

Food Miles
Timanfaya Room
Chair: Inge Røpke

RIGBY, Dan & BOWN, Sophie: Organic food and global trade: is the market delivering agricultural sustainability?

 

Strong Sustainability
Maritim I Room
Chair: Arild Vatn

OTT, Konrad & DÖRING, Ralf: Strong sustainability and environmental policy in Germany

Education
Palma Room
Chair: Paul Safonov

HIEDANPÄÄ, Juha & ALBRECHT, Marc: Ecological economics: An introductory intensive course

CALERO, Roque: Energy efficient schools in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Ganaria

20:30-21:30 Dinner (Please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant

Thursday, 13 February 2003
Sunrise: 07:45 Sunset 18:54
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Buenavista Restaurant
09:30 - 11:00 PLENARY SPEECH III: The Revolution in Welfare Economics and its Implications for Environmental Valuation: A Partial Critique of Ecological Economics
by John GOWDY, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, USA
Maritim I Room
Questions from the floor (45 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Buenavista Terrace
11:30 - 13:00 PARALLEL SESSION II (3 parallel topics)
 

Participatory Decision Processes II
Timanfaya Room
Chair: John O'Neill

CARTER, Claudia: Participatory decision processes in practice: their current and potential role in the GMO decision-making process

VAN DEN HOVE, Sybille: Participatory environmental policy making: from EU institutionalisation to practical implementation in the case of the thematic strategy on the sustainable use of pesticides

DEVINE, Pat: Industrial policy, ecological economics and deliberative democracy

 

Material Flow Analysis and Consumption I
Maritim I Room
Chair: John Proops

KLETZAN, Angela KÖPPL, Angela & KRATENA, Kurt: Economic modelling of sustainable consumption patterns for mobility and heating for Austria

RUSSI, Daniela CAÑELLAS-BOLTÁ, Silvia CITLALIC, Ana PUIG, Ignasi SENDRA, Cristina MUÑOZ Miquel & SOJO Amalia: Preliminary material and energy flow accounting of Spain

NIEDERL, Andreas & MESICEK, Roman: Visualisation of consumptive behaviour on the basis of material intensity

Processes of Valuation
Palma Room
Chair: Felix Rauschmayer

LEON, Carmelo & GONZALEZ, Matías: Private versus social valuation of solid waste management policies.
a comparison of stated preference and expert assessment

FARRELL, Katharine: How much for your wife? A critique of the pragmatic assigning of
monetary values to ecological goods and services

KUCHELMEISTER Guido: Participatory economic evaluation - Experience in forest valuation with villagers in Vietnam

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (Please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant
15:00 - 16:30 FOCUSED GROUP DISCUSSION II

Sustainability Science
Timanfaya Room

Chair: Fritz Hinterberger

SPANGENBERG, Joachim: Sustainability science: science must go public for sustainable development

 

Climate Change
Maritim I Room
Chair: Federico Aguilera-Klink

VAN DEN HOVE, Sybille: Practical contributions of ecological economics to addressing climate change

 

Multi-Criteria Mapping
Palma Room
Chair: Clive Spash

GILNA, Ben: What do we do about the foxes? a multi-regional application of the multicriteria mapping technique in Australia

EAMES, Malcolm; STIRLING, Andrew; BURGESS, Jacquie; DAVIES, Gail; WILLIAMSON, Suzanne; MAYER, Sue & STALEY, Kristina: Deliberative mapping: integrating citizens and specialists appraisals in a transparent and inclusive participatory process

16:30 - 17:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Buenavista Terrace
16:30 - 18:00 Poster Session
Maritim II Room
Three simultaneous guided tours
16:30 - 17:30 Tour Leader: John O'Neill
16:30 - 17:30 Tour Leader: Claudia Carter
16:30 - 17:30 Tour Leader: Peter Söderbaum
17:30 - 18:00 Discussion time with authors
 

KVAKKESTAD, Valborg: Institutions and development of genetically modified plants

SERRANO, Sandra DOMINGOS, Tiago & SIMOES, Ana: Energy and emergy analysis of meat and dairy production in intensive, extensive and biological system

HILL, Gary DEL MORAL, Leandro PANEQUE, P PEDREGAL, B SPASH, C & URAMA, K: Developing evaluation theory and practice in water project decision-making processes: comparative ex-post analysis of five European case studies

ROCA, Jordi HERCOWITZ, Marcelo PUIG, Ignasi & HERNANDEZ, Oliver: Taxes, environment and tourism in the island of Lanzarote

WASILEWSKI, Adam: Institutional options for the protection of open space

BONNI, Federico & LUZZATI, Tommaso: Is the "tragedy of the commons" relevant? The case of the water-table of Prato (Italy)

URIARTT, Ari DE MELLO, Sonia & SIMON, Xavier: Participative process in progress: the case of the Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia in the South Region of Brazil

PAPATHANASOPOULOU, Eleni: Assessing the environmental impact of UK’s consumption and trade trends

PERKINS, Patricia: Discourse-based valuation and ecological economics

PETIT, Olivier: From Regulation to participation : collective action and sustainable use of groundwater resources

CORRAL, Serafin & GUIMARAES, Angela: Information tools for extended decision processes: issues on quality assurance

GONZÁLEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, Pilar & HERNÁNDEZ-SUÁREZ, Marcos: Reflections on the development project for chesnut area on Acentejo, Tenerife

18:00 - 19:30 PARALLEL SESSION III (3 parallel topics)
 

Participatory Decision Processes III
Timanfaya Room
Chair: John O’Neill

GARCIA FRAPOLLI, Eduardo: Local participation in the formulation of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation policies: The case of the Natural Protected Area "Otoch Ma’ax Yetel Kooh", in Yucatan (Mexico)

LEON, Carmelo GONZALEZ, Matías & ARAÑA, Jorge: Eco-endo-development as a tool for planning the rural-urban environment

KLUVANKOVA-OROVSKA Tatiana & CHOBOTOVA, Veronica: Multiple stakeholder dialogue processes and multicriteria decision aid. experience from transition economy of the Slovak Republic

 

Climate Change
Maritim I Room
Chair: Noemí Padrón

ALCANTARA, Vicent & PADILLA, Emilio: An input-output analysis of the "key" sectors in CO2 emissions: the Spanish case

NIJNIK, Maria: Modelling carbon uptake and assessing policy alternatives of planting trees to mitigate climate change

 

Sustainability Indicators I
Palma Room
Chair: Arild Vatn

LOBO, Gonçalo ANTUNES, Paula LOBO, Fernando & SANTOS, Rui:Mining sustainabiliy indexes

FERNANDES, Lucio & WOODHOUSE, Philip: The use of agri-environmental indicators to evaluate peasant farming

JHA, Raghbendra & BHANU MURTHY, K.V.: A Critique of the environmental sustainability index

20:00 - 21:30 Dinner (please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant

Friday, 14 February 2003
Sunrise: 07:45 Sunset: 18:55
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Buenavista Restaurant
09:30 - 11:00 PLENARY SPEECH IV: A Bottom-Up / Top-Down Methodology for Indicators of Corporate Social Performance in the European Aluminium Industry
by Sylvie Faucheux, University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France
Maritim I Room
Questions from the floor (45 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Buenavista Terrace
11:30 - 13:00 PARALLEL SESSION IV (3 parallel topics)
 

MCA, Stakeholders and Participation I
Timanfaya Room
Chair: Claudia Carter

GILBERT, Alison: The use of spatial information and techniques in trading-off ecological and economic values for the Vecht River Basin

JANSSEN, Ron & GOOSEN, Hasse: A multicriteria approach for integrated wetland management

RAUSCHMAYER, Felix KLAUER, Bernt & WITTMER, Heidi: How to select instruments for the resolution of environmental conflicts?

 

Business and Sustainability II
Maritim I Room
Chair: Fritz Hinterberger

BOEHRINGER, Christoph & FRONDEL, Manuel: Assessing voluntary commitments: monitoring is not enough!

BLEISCHWITZ, Raimund & SCHUBERT, Ulf-Manuel: Governance of joint environmental management: a look at the institutional ecology of eco-industrial parks

SAFONOV, Paul & SHVETS, Sergey: Application of input-output modelling information system to corporate ecological-economic management

Environmental Kuznets Curves
Palma Room
Chair: Mario Giampietro

RAMOS MARTIN, Jesús & ORTEGA-CERDÁ, Miquel: Non-linear relationship between energy intensity and economic growth

RODRIGUES, by Joao & Tiago DOMINGOS: The EKC and the rebound effect in a static economy

MURADIAN, Roldan, Nina EISENMENGER & Stefan GILJUM: The distribution of economic values and environmental burdens through global trade

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant
14:30 - 18:30
Excursion
(i) Historical & Cultural Trip of the Old Town Centre of La Orotava
(ii) Coastal Walk
(iii) Botanical Gardens & Biodiversity
(iv) Do your own thing
19:30 Bus Leaves from Hotel to the Venue of Conference Dinner
20:00 - 20:30 Reception
Lago Martiánez, Puerto la Cruz
20:30 - 22:30 Conference Gala Dinner
Sala Andrómeda, Lago Martiánez (supported by the Town Council of Puerto la Cruz)

Saturday, 15 February 2003
Sunrise: 07:44 Sunset: 18:55
08:00 - 09:00 Breakfast
Buenavista Restaurant
09:30 - 11:00 Plenary Speech V: Building Interdisciplinary Reseach
by Arild VATN, Agricultural University of Norway, Norway
Maritim I Room
Questions from the floor (45 minutes)
11:00 - 11:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Buenavista Terrace
11:30 - 13:00 PARALLEL SESSION V (3 parallel topics)
 

MCA, Stakeholders and Participation II
Timanfaya Room
Chair: Sigrid Stagl

PROCTOR, Wendy: Deliberative multi-criteria evaluation: a case study of recreation and tourism options in Victoria

CORBERA, Esteve & BROWN, Katrina: A Multi-Criteria Assessment Framework for Carbon-Mitigation Projects: Putting "development" and the poor in the centre of decision-making

SÖDERBAUM, Peter: Decision processes and decision-making in relation to sustainable development and democracy – where do we stand?

 

Sustainability Indicators II
Maritim I Room
Chair: Mario Giampietro

REED, Mark & DOUGILL, Andrew: Integrating economic land degradation assessment with other methods to facilitate grass-roots monitoring and response to environmental change in Botswana rangelands

SCHANDL, Heinz & SCHULZ, Niels: An integrated assessment of material and energy flows and land use changes for the United Kingdom, 1850 to the present day

SPANGENBERG, Joachim: Biodiversity indicators - the need to go from species to pressures

Agri-Environment Schemes
Palma Room
Chair: Inge Røpke

LOPEZ, Feliu: The role of the agroecological discourse in the development of the EU Rural Policy

DAVIES, Ben: Evaluating some normative influences on farmers' environmental decision-making: A study in East Anglia, UK

13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (please be on time)
Buenavista Restaurant
15:00 - 16:30 PARALLEL SESSION VI (3 parallel topics)
 

MCA, Stakeholders and Participation III
Timanfaya Room
Chair: Sigrid Stagl

SOMA, Katrina: The analytic hierarchy process methodology applied in the codfish sector in Norway

MAZZEO, Francesco ELIASSON, Ase & LINDE, Niklas: Multicriteria decision aid in supporting decisions related to groundwater protection

ARZT, Katja: How to cope with agricultural -environmental problems? "Round Tables" and their potentials to solve and avoid environmental problems in the field of agriculture

 

Material Flow Analysis and Consumption II
Maritim I Room
Chair: Jörg Köhn

FOXON, Timothy: Techno-institutional drivers and barriers for sustainable innovation

SCHWARZ, Hans-Günter: Economic materials-products chain models: status, further development and application

LUKS, Fred & HAMMER, Mark: Understanding scientific-political decisions processes: Material flow analysis, discourse analysis and the rhetorics of (ecological) economics

Tourism and Consumption
Palma Room
Chair: Federico Aguilera-Klink

ZOGRAFOS, Christos: The influence of informal institutions on sustainable consumption: the case of ecotourism in Scotland

HERCOWITZ, Marcelo: The Lanzarote tourism and social metabolism

16:30 - 17:30 Tea/Coffee Break
Buenavista Terrace
17:30 - 19:00

ROUNDTABLE: Developing a Practical Ecological Economics
Maritim I Room
Chair: Clive Spash

Wendy Proctor, Dan Rigby and Joachim Spangenberg

19:00 - 19:15 Greeting
by John Proops - President ISEE
Maritim I Room
19:15 - 19:30 Summing Up
by Clive Spash
Maritim I Room
20:00 - 21:30 Dinner
Buenavista Restaurant