Modern societies face increasingly sensible environmental issues: biodiversity erosion, problems of access to water resources, disruptions to ecosystem services, nonpoint source pollution… How should we manage natural resources to tackle these threats and to induce the transition to greener societies? How to account for local features and jurisdictions in management systems? Can we ensure a trade-off between economic growth and environmental conservation?
This research group tackles these challenges by using environmental and natural resource economics. Researchers rely on several methods: game theory, optimization theory, experiments and quasi-experiments.
Research works are focused on two main priorities. The first one is related to the appropriate design of public policy instruments to achieve sustainable management of natural resources, and to the analysis of the relationship between the environment and economic growth. The second priority focuses on biodiversity conservation policies and particularly on the ecological and spatial dimensions of such policies.
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Taming the terminological tempest in invasion science
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Biological ReviewsThe role of illegal fishing on the sustainability of the coastal fishery in French Guiana
à paraîtreEnvironment, Development and SustainabilityTaking firms’ margin targets seriously in a model of competition in supply functions -
à paraîtreJournal of Economics and Management StrategyCommitment vs. noncommitment behaviors in natural resource conflicts: A case study of groundwater resources
à paraîtreEconomic ModellingPerceptions of ecosystem services and bonds with nature: the case of fish-farming ponds in France
à paraîtreEcological EconomicsRecent advances in availability and synthesis of the economic costs of biological invasions
à paraîtreBioscienceDynamic fishing with endogenous habitat damage
à paraîtreDynamic Games and ApplicationsEnvironment, public debt and epidemics
à paraîtreJournal of Public Economic TheoryStrong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms
2024Nature SustainabilityA practical and pragmatic way to assess deeper motivations for ecosystems preservation in developing country -The case of Banc d'Arguin National Park (Mauritania)
2024Environmental DevelopmentDamage costs from invasive species exceed management expenditure in nations experiencing lower economic activity
2024Ecological EconomicsWhen profitability meets conservation objectives through biodiversity offsets
2023Natural Resource ModelingRisk aversion in renewable resource harvesting
2023Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementCrop prices and deforestation in the tropics
2023Journal of Environmental Economics and ManagementServices provided by multifunctional agroecosystems: Questions, obstacles and solutions
2023Ecological EngineeringSpatial priorities for invasive alien species control in protected areas
2023Science of the Total EnvironmentHow do coastal residents perceive past and future changes in a Mediterranean lagoon ecosystem services?
2023Ocean and Coastal ManagementFormalizing a Two-Step Decision-Making Process in Land Use: Evidence from Controlling Forest Clearcutting Using Spatial Information
2023LandIndividual and strategic behaviors in a dynamic extraction problem: results from a within-subject experiment in continuous time
2023Applied EconomicsStochastic Multi-species MSY to Achieve Ecological-Economic Sustainability of a Coral Reef Fishery System in French Polynesia
2022Environmental Modeling & AssessmentMapping global hotspots and trends of water quality (1992–2010): a data driven approach
2022Environmental Research LettersÉconomie de l’environnement et des ressources naturelles : Introduction
2022Revue Française d'EconomieDroughts and deforestation: Does seasonality matter?
2022PLoS ONEPermanence of avoided deforestation in a Transamazon REDD+ project (Pará, Brazil)
2022Ecological EconomicsLimited-tenure concessions for collective goods
2022Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control
- Funding : SMACH – INRA
- Duration : 2017 – 2020
- Contact : COURTOIS Pierre
Efficient management of epidemics aims at allocating efforts in the most efficient way.
The choice problem is an optimization one in which epidemics dynamics is to be accounted for as an additional constraint to the decision problem.
The key of the project is to study where to allocate effort, how to allocate it and when.
The project is an interdisciplinary one at the intersection between economics, epidemiology and phythopathology and it gathers scientists from the three disciplines and engage simultaneously two Ph.d thesis, one in economics, the other in epidemiology.
- Funding : FEDER/Poctefa/ EU
- Duration : 2016 – 2018
- Contact : SALLES Jean-Michel, COURTOIS Pierre
The EcoGYp project aims to study a range of issues related to the ecology and the conservation of necrophagous raptors, with a particular focus on the Bearded Vulture.
The socio-economic component of this project focuses on the identification and assessment of ecosystem services related to these species and the areas in which they reside.
The main services related to necrophagous birds of prey are on the one hand, recreational and aesthetic aspects and on the other, their ecological function as natural rendering.
The former are analysed on the basis of choice experiments, the natural rendering function being evaluated by comparison with industrial rendering from a life-cycle analysis perspective
- Funding : ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) ANR-16-CE03-0005
- Duration : 2016 – 2020
- Contact : QUEROU Nicolas
- Website: https://sites.google.com/view/anr-green-econ/home
This joint project between CEE-M and the Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE) analyzes the transition process toward a greener economy by studying the potential consequences of, and reactions of our societies to, environmental changes.
The project mainly focuses on two important objects of analysis, which are emblematic of issues related to environmental changes: pollution and aquatic resources.
The analysis of these two objects are tackled by relying on three work packages (WPs): (i) the economic assessment of the environmental issues (ii) the definition of short to medium-term solutions by developing dynamic environmental regulatory instruments and (iii) the study of the society’s long term adaptation capacity to sustain an environmentally friendly development process.
- Funding : MUSE Initiative
- Duration : 2018 – 2019
- Contact : QUEROU Nicolas
The project focuses on two complementary research questions that raise different types of scientific challenges.
The first one is related to promoting forms of greener activities through the analysis of incentive mechanisms and behavioral rules to induce a sustainable use of land and natural resources.
The second one is more focused on resource scarcity and on the strategies to tackle problems of uncertainty, irreversibility and threshold effects when dealing with issues of natural resource management.
- Funding : ANR (Agence National de la Recherche) ANR-14-CE02-0021
- Duration : 2014 – 2018
- Contact : SALLES Jean-Michel
- Website: http://invacost.fr/
The aim of the InvaCosts programme is to characterise and quantify the worldwide impacts of invasive species following climate change.
These impacts will be considered sensu lato, including biodiversity losses, disruption of ecosystem functioning and loss of ecosystem services, economic costs (on agriculture, forestry, real estate and infrastructures) and damages to public health (sanitary impacts and associated secondary costs for the society).
This project focuses on insects, a taxonomic group of major importance for the target environmental and societal categories, and whose ectothermic nature makes them especially sensitive to climate variables.
- Funding : ONEMA/AFB (Agence Française pour la Biodiversité)
- Duration : 2017 – 2019
- Contact : COURTOIS Pierre
Spatial management of biological invasions is a complex task.
This project aims at developing decision making tools in order to optimally allocate a limited budget toward the spatial management of a biological invasion.
The project develops three workpackages. The first is on spatial evaluation methods to estimate spatial benefits related to species control.
The second is on spatial evaluation methods to estimate spatial costs related to species control.
The last is on the modelling of invasion dynamics in space and time. Combining the three workpackages, the overall output of the project is a spatially explicit cost-benefit module for the management of mobile externalities.
- Funding : ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche)
- Duration : 2021- 2025
- Contact : RICCI Francesco