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events

AquaMoney final conference

as part of the

Preconference Water Economics

of

EAERE 2009 Amsterdam

The final conference of the AquaMoney research project takes place in Amsterdam: on 23 June, the project team will gather in a closed session. The next day, Wednesday 24 June, the final conference will be integrated into the EAERE 2009 Amsterdam conference as a preconference on water economics, open to the public free of charge.The one-day preconference is organized with the aim to present and discuss recent developments and state-of-the art of European Water Economics. Click here to see the programme.

Keynote speakers are:

• Prof. Richard Tol, VU University Amsterdam, the Netherlands – The Economic Impact of Climate Change on Water Resources
• Dr. Ines Dombrowsky, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research, Germany – The Economics of International River Basin Conflict and Cooperation
• Prof. Ian Baeman, University of East Anglia, UK – Guidelines for Designing and Implementing Transferable Non-Market Valuation Studies
• Prof. John Rolfe, Central Queensland University, Australia – Pricing Water Quality Improvements with Market Based Instruments

During the preconference, the guidelines for economic valuation in the context of the WFD will be presented developed for the WFD by a European research consortium of water economics experts focusing on a variety of water resource valuation issues in European river basins. The preconference is sponsored by the European Commission’s DG Research project AquaMoney and the Dutch Government funded program ‘Leven met Water’.