Download Area - 2008 Summer School

Lectures' Notes

Anastasios XEPAPADEAS, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece – School Coordinator
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (50 Kb)]: Optimal Management of Spatial Economic/Ecological Models
2. Reference paper [ .pdf version (319 Kb)]: Spatial Analysis in Descriptive Models of Renewable Resource Managment
3. Reference paper [ .pdf version (495 Kb)]: Diffusion-Induced Instability and Pattern Formation in Infinitive Horizon Recursive Optimal Control
4. Presentation [ .pdf version (1379 Kb)]: Optimal Management of Spatial Economic / Ecological Models

Reading list:
- Brock, W. and A. Xepapadeas, “Spatial Analysis in Descriptive Models of Renewable Resource Management,” Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 141, September 2005, 331-354.
- Brock, W. and A. Xepapadeas, "Diffusion-Induced Instability and Pattern Formation in Infinite Horizon Recursive Optimal Control," Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, forthcoming.
- Murray, J., Mathematical Biology, Third Edition, Berlin: Springer, 2003.
- Okubo, A. and Levin, S., Eds. (2001), Diffusion and Ecological Problems: Modern Perspectives, 2nd Edition, Berlin: Springer, 2001.

Aart DE ZEEUW, The Beijer Institute, Sweden, and Tilburg University, The Netherlands
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (100 Kb)]: Stability of International Environmental Agreements
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (118 Kb)]: Internat. Environmental Agreements: A game theory approach
3. Presentation [ .pdf version (182 Kb)]: Effect of technological development on stability of Int. Env. Agreements

Reading list:
- Barrett, S., Self-enforcing international environmental agreements, Oxford Economic Papers 46, 878-894, 1994.
- Barrett, S., Climate treaties and “breakthrough” technologies, American Economic Review 96(2), 22-25, 2006.
- Chander, P., and H. Tulkens, A core-theoretic solution for the design of cooperative agreements on transfrontier pollution, International Tax and Public Finance 2, 279-293, 1995.
- Hoel, M., and A. de Zeeuw, Can a focus on breakthrough technologies improve performance of international environmental agreements?, working paper, 2008.
- de Zeeuw, A., Dynamic effects on the stability of international environmental agreements, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 55, 163-174, 2008.

Background:
- d'Aspremont, C., A. Jacquemin, J. Gabszewicz, and J. Weymark, On the stability of collusive price leadership, Canadian Journal of Economics 16, 17-25, 1983.
- Bargiacchi, R., Modelling and testing behaviour in applications to climate change, PhD thesis, Tilburg University, 2006.
- Barrett, S., Environment and Statecraft, The Strategy of Environmental Treaty-making, Oxford University - Press, Oxford, 2003.
- Diamantoudi, E., and E. Sartzetakis, International environmental agreements – the role of foresight, working paper, 2002.
- Finus, M., Stability and design of international environmental agreements: the case of transboundary pollution, in: H. Folmer and T. Tietenberg (eds.), The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 2003/2004, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2003, 82-158, 2003.

Carlo GIUPPONI, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (50 Kb)]: Spatial Analysis for Integrated Natural Resources Management and Decision Making
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (1128 Kb)]: Spatial Analysis for Integrated Natural Resources Management and Decision Making

Reading list:
- Burigana E., Giupponi C., Bendoricchio G. 2003. Nitrogen surplus as indicator of agricultural pollution impact in the Venice Lagoon Watershed. In: Bruen M. (ed.):Diffuse Pollution and RIver Basin Management. Proceedings of the 7 th IWA International Conference, Dublin, 171-176.
- Fassio A., Giupponi C., Hiederer R., Simota C. 2005. A Decision Support tool for simulating the effects of alternative policies affecting water resources: an application at the European scale. Journal of hydrology, 304:462-476.
- Giupponi C., Mysiak J., Fassio A., Cogan V. 2002. Towards a spatial decision support system for water resource management: MULINO-DSS 1st release. In: Ruiz M., Gould M., J. Ramon (eds.):AGILE 2002 Conference on Geographic Information Science, Palma del Mallorca (E), 397-405.
- Giupponi C., Ramanzin M., Sturaro E., Fuser S. 2006. Land use change, biodiversity and agricultural policy in the Belluno province, Italy. Environmental Science and Policy, 9:163-173.
- Giupponi C., Vladimirova I. 2006. Ag-PIE: A GIS-based screening model for assessing agricultural pressures and impacts on water quality on a European scale. Science of the Total Environment, 359:57– 75.
- Salvetti R., Acutis M., Azzellino A., Carpani M., Giupponi C., Parati P., Vale M., Vismara R. 2008. Modelling the point and non-point nitrogen loads to the Venice Lagoon (Italy): the application of water quality models to the Dese-Zero basin. Desalination, 226:81–88.

Simon LEVIN, Princeton University, USA
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (49 Kb)]: Spatial Models in Ecology

Reading list:
- Levin, S.A. (1976), “Population Dynamic Models in Heterogeneous Environments”, Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics, Vol. 7, pp. 287-310.
- Durrett, R. and Levin, S.A. (1993), “The Importance of Being Discrete (and Spatial)”, Theoretical Population Biology, 46, pp. 363-394.
- Couzin, I.D. and Krause, J and Franks, N.R. and Levin S.A. (2005), “Effective Leadership and Decision-Making in Animal Groups on the Move”, Nature 433, pp. 513-516.
- Levin, S.A. and Muller-Landau, H.C. (2000), “The Evolution of Dispersal and Seed Size in Plant Communities”, Evolutionary Ecology Research, 2, pp. 409–435.
- Levin, S.A. and Pacala, S.W. (1997), “Theories of Simplification and Scaling of Spatially Distributed Processes” in Tilman, D and Kareiva, P. (1997) “Spatial Ecology: The role of Space in Populatin Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions”, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, pp. 271-296.
- Pacala, S.W. and Levin, S.A. (1996), “Biologically Generated Spatial Pattern and the Coexistence of Competing Species” in: Tilman, D. and Kareiva, P. (eds) “Spatial Ecology: The Role of Space in Population Dynamics and Interspecific Interactions”, Princeton University Press: Princeton, NJ, pp. 204-232.

Michael RAUSCHER, Rostock University, Germany
1. Lecture's topic: Location of Pollution Activities
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (165 Kb)]: Location of Polluting Activities in Models of Economic Geography
3. Presentation [ .pdf version (119 Kb)]: Location of Polluting Activities in Models of International Trade and Factor Mobility

James WILEN, University of California at Davis, USA
1. Lecture's outiline [ .pdf version (62 Kb)]: Models of Metapopulation Management and Modeling Bioinvasion Management

Reading list:
- Sanchirico, James and James E. Wilen. 1999. “Bioeconomics of Spatial Exploitation in a Patchy Environment”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 37(2):129-150.
- Sanchirico, James and James E. Wilen. 2001. “A Bioeconomic Model of Marine Reserves Creation”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 42(3): 257-276.
- Martin D. Smith and James E. Wilen. 2003. “Economic Impacts of Marine Reserves: the Importance of Spatial Behavior”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 46(2):183-206.
- Sanchirico, James and James E. Wilen. 2005. “Optimal Spatial Management of Metapopulations: Matching Policy Scope to Ecosystem Scale”, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 50(1): 23-46.
- Sanchirico, James, Alan Hastings, Ludmilla Malvadka, and James Wilen. 2006. “When are No-take Zones an Economically Optimal Fishery Management Strategy?”, Ecological Applications, 16(5): 1643-1659.
- Wilen, James E. 2007. “Economics of Spatial-dynamic Processes”, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89(5): 1134-1144.

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