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Prof. Cees A. WITHAGEN, Free University Amsterdam and Tilburg University, The Netherlands
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity Conservation in a Multiregional General Equilibrium Model
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (165 Kb)]: Human Migration and Spatial Patterns of Biodiversity Conservation

Prof. Erwin BULTE, Tilburg University and Wageningen University, The Netherlands
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: Origins of the Resource Curse (Negative Relationship Between Resource Abundance and Economic Growth)
2. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: An Assessment of the Resource Curse
3. Lecture's notes: Natural Resource Abundance and Economic Growth
4. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (269 Kb)]: Resource Intensity, Institutions, and Development
5. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (542 Kb)]: Institutions and the Resource Curse
6. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (209 Kb)]: Political Foundations of the Resource Curse
7. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (782 Kb)]: The Resource Curse Revisited and Revised: a Tale of Paradoxes and Red Herrings
8. Presentation [ .pdf version (386 Kb)]: Economics of the Resource Curse

Prof. Timo GOESCHL, University of Heidelberg, Germany
1. Extended Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (25 Kb)]: Designing Property Rights for Biodiversity and Biological Information & The Impacts of Property Rights over Biodiversity and Biological Information
2. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (122 Kb)]: Property Rights Issues Involving Plant Genetic Resources: Implications of Ownership for Economic Efficiency
3. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (240 Kb)]: The Biodiversity Bargaining Problem
4. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (1.899 Kb)]: Land Reform Policies, the Sources of Violent Conflict, and Implications for Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon
5. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (132 Kb)]: Reconciling Conservation and Development: A Dynamic Hotelling Model of Extractive Reserves
6. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (314 Kb)]: Community–Industry Contracting over Natural Resource Use in a Context of Weak Property Rights: The Case of Indonesia
7. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (190 Kb)]: The Social Value of Biodiversity for R&D
8. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (121 Kb)]: The Development Impact of Genetic Use Rrestriction Technologies: a Forecast Based on the Hhybrid Crop Experience
9. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (2.680 Kb)]: Deforestation and Ownership: Evidence from Historical Accounts and Contemporary Data
10. Presentation [ .pdf version (536 Kb)]: Designing property rights for biodiversity and biological information  New! 

Prof. Paulo A.L.D. NUNES, Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and School for Advanced Studies in Venice Foundation, Italy
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: Economics of Valuation of Biodiversity Benefits
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (158 Kb)]: Economic Valuation of Biodiversity Benefits: a critical analysis

Prof. Steve POLASKY, University of Minnesota, USA
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (35 Kb)]: Biodiversity Conservation and Economic Returns on a Landscape
2. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (35 Kb)]: Trade, Land-Use and Biodiversity
3. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (258 Kb)]: On trade, land-use, and biodiversity
4. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (698 Kb)]: Where to Put Things? Spatial Land Management to Sustain Biodiversity and Economic Returns
5. Presentation [ .pdf version (3.736 Kb)]: Conservation Economics: Thinking Clearly about Biodiversity Conservation and Ecosystem Services

Prof. Scott TAYLOR, University of Calgary, Canada
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: Globalization, Resources and Property Rights
2. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (33 Kb)]: Trade, Tragedy and the Commons: Theory and Empirics
3. Presentation [ .pdf version (1.609 Kb)]: International Trade and the Virtual Extinction of the North American Bison

Dr. Peter CARTER, European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
1. Lecture's outline [ .pdf version (32 Kb)]: The European Investment Bank and its approach to Biodiversity Issues
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (3.029 Kb)]: The European Investment Bank
3. Presentation [ .pdf version (1.492 Kb)]: The European Investment Bank. Promoting European objectives
4. Presentation [ .pdf version (1.977 Kb)]: European objectives within and outside the Union

Dr. Carolyn FISCHER, Resources for the Future, USA
1. Lecture's notes [ .pdf version (512 Kb)]: The complex interactions of markets for endangered species products
2. Presentation [ .pdf version (273 Kb)]: The Complex Interactions of Markets for Endangered Species Products

This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility.
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