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The newspaper Östersunds-Posten wrote an article about the 50 largest forest owners in the county of Jämtland. The forest industry has a turn over best counted in billions, but there are other non-monetary values to consider, something that is increasingly discussed. CERE’s Bengt Kriström, who has been working with these issues for many years now, elaborates.

“- What we call non-market-values like for instance recreation, have a tendency to increase with increasing income, and I would say that they have become more important of late. A lot of people see value beyond chopping down the forest.” (Click on headline to read more)

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The intersection between productivity and the environment a focus area during guest researcher Moriah Bostians stay with CERE this spring.

Moriah will be working closely with CERE’s Tommy Lundgren: - We are currently working to apply network technology estimation methods in order to model the linkages between prevention and treatment technologies for emissions reductions. For example, switching to a lower emissions fuel source would be considered a form of prevention, while installing smoke stack scrubbers would be considered a form of treatment. We are also using similar network methods to better understand the tradeoffs in forest management between harvesting timber for final pulp and paper products, using forest resources to produce biofuel, and net carbon emissions. (Click on headline to read more)

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oben kurs gruppfotoGiven in 3-6 June 2019. Applications are now open.  

The Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics is organizing a course on behavioural environmental economics. 

Last year we received a prize for the best PhD course given by our Faculty, this motivated us to give the course again. 

 

Lecture period: June 3, 2019 - June 6, 2019

Deadline for application: 15 March, 2019.

Place: SLU Ultuna Campus, Uppsala, Sweden.

Level: PhD and Masters

-For more detailed and up-to-date information.

-Or visit the official course page on university's website: 

-We also have a group called BEEn (Behavioural Environmental Economics Network) which aims to bring scholars together working on issues related to environmental and resource economics from a behavioural perspective. BEEn collects and disseminate information about related conferences, research and announcements. Learn more about the group and become a member. 

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The welfare of the population must be addressed when analyzing the country’s development says the New Zeeland prime minister Jacinda Ardern when launching a new way to measure the welfare of the country. DN asked three economists, one of them Runar Brännlund, about their views on the New Zeeland decision.

“- Can’t imagine any one claiming that GDP is an ideal way to measure development or welfare, it isn’t a good measure. However, it isn’t either or, all measurements are necessary. GDP fulfills it function, says Runar Brännlund, Professor of Economics at Umeå University.”

“- The New Zeeland solution appears to mimic what we call genuine savings or genuine investments that studies how all capital stocks such as natural, human and social capital, in a society changes, says Runar Brännlund.”

Read the full article (only in Swedish), ”Experter gör tummen upp för Nya Zeelands välmående-budget” (Experts gives thumbs up for the New Zeeland welfare budget), published on DN February 21, 2019.

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CERE's Runar Brännlund discuss the green shift in taxation with climate- and environmental minister Isabella Lövin.

The government wants to start taxing disposable items, plastic items, chemicals in textiles and shoes, waste and incineration. Furthermore, they want to review the subsidies given to companies that use fossil fuel. Runar Brännlund calls for calm and would rather see the taxation on a global level to avoid Sweden being taken off the market and the emissions continuing just in another country.

(Runar enters at 5.10, only in Swedish)

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Karimu, A., Krishnamurthy, C.K.B. & Vesterberg, M. Hourly demand for electricity in Sweden: Implications for load, welfare and emissions. Read

Carlén, O., Bostedt, G., Brännlund, R. & Persson, L. Gone fishing: The value of recreational fishing in Sweden. Read
Bostedt, G., Zabel, A. & Ekvall, H. Planning on a wider scale – Swedish forest owners’preferences for landscape policy attributes. Read
Kriström, B. & Johansson, P-O.  The Infinitely Worried Forest Owner: Key Biotopes and Forest Certification in a Faustmann Model? Read