Seminars funded and administered on behalf of HEEDnet (the Heterodox Economics for Environment and Development Network):
The presentations can be found on the HEEDnet website.
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Practical Policy Making Supported by Agent Based Modelling |
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DEFRA 16 November 2011
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| Chair |
Cathryn Ross, Executive Director of Railway Markets and Economics at the Office of Rail Regulation |
| Speaker |
Paul Ormerod, economist and author |
| Discussants |
Scott Moss, Visiting Professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau
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Do Water Meters Reduce Household Consumption? |
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DEFRA 24 November 2010
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Henry Leveson-Gower, Economic Advisor, Water Legislation, Competition and Charging Team, DEFRA |
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Dr Chad Staddon, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Bristol Group for Water Research, University of the West of England |
| Discussants |
Robert Canning, Head of Economic Regulation Branch, Water Supply & Regulation Division, DEFRA
Darren Bentham, Director, Universal Metering Programme, Southern Water
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Well-Being: Should Government Aim to Make People Happy? |
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DEFRA 26 March 2008 |
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Henry Leveson-Gower, Principal, GHK International |
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Avner Offer, Chichele Professor in Economic History, University of Oxford, and Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford |
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Prof Tim Jackson, Professor of Sustainable Development, Centre for Environmental Strategy, University of Surrey
Richard Reeves, Research Associate (formerly Director of Futures), Work Foundation
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The Origin of Wealth: Evolution, Complexity and Radical Remaking of Economics |
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DEFRA 26 November 2007 |
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Richard Price, Chief Economist, DEFRA |
| Speaker |
Eric Beinhocker, Senior Fellow, McKinsey Global Institute
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Dr Terry Barker, Director, Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research (4CMR), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
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Dr Cameron Hepburn,
Deputy Director, School of Enterprise and Environment, Oxford University
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Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change |
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DEFRA 21 June 2007 |
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Prashant Vaze, Head of Economics, Office of Climate Change |
| Speakers |
Dr Terry Barker, Director of 4CMR (the Cambridge Centre for Climate Change Mitigation Research), Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge
Prof Scott Moss, Professor of Social Simulation and Director of the Centre for Policy Modelling in Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
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Trading Schemes, Risks and Costs: the Cases of the EUETS & Renewable Obligations |
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DEFRA 22 March 2007 |
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Dr David Toke, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Policy, Department of Sociology, University of Birmingham |
| Discussants |
Steve Sorrell, SPRU
Peter Roscoe, Department of Trade and Industry
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Simulating the Adoption of Organic Farming Practices in New EU Member States |
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Environment Agency 18 January 2007 |
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Dr Sigrid Stagl, SPRU, University of Sussex |
| Discussants |
Professor Scott Moss, Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School
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The Implications of the Psychology of Decision-Making under Uncertainty |
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DEFRA 1 March 2006 |
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Sheetal Radia, Department of Trade and Industry
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Extending the 'Rational Man' Model of Human Behaviour: Seven Key Principles |
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Home Office 22nd September 2005 |
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Professor Paul Wiles (Chief Scientific Advisor and Director of Strategy, Research and Statistics, Home Office) |
| Speakers |
Emma Dawnay and Hetan Shah (New Economics Foundation)
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Technology and Innovation Policy for Sustainability |
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Department of Trade and Industry 14th April 2005 |
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Adrian Gault (Director of Strategy Development, Energy Strategy Unit, Department of Trade and Industry) |
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Dr. Jonathan Kohler (Tyndall Centre and University of Cambridge) - 'New lessons for technology policy and climate change: investment for innovation'
Dr. Tim Foxon (Imperial College London) - 'Transforming policy processes to promote sustainable innovation: some guiding principles' |
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Michael Massey (Former Director of Sustainable Development, Department of Trade and Industry)
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| Topic |
The revolution in welfare economics and the implications for environmental policy |
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Environment Agency 13 December 2004 |
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Ronan Palmer, Chief Economist of the Environment Agency |
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Prof John Gowdy, Department of Economics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, US
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The Psychology of Environmental Economic Instruments |
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HM Treasury 19 October, 2004 |
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Michael Jacobs, member of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury |
| Speaker |
Alan Lewis, Professor of Economic Psychology, University of Bath |
| Discussants |
Dr Dieter Helm, New College, Oxford
Prof Paul Ekins, Head of Environmental Group, Policy Studies Group
Becky Willis, Associate Director, Green Alliance
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Economics and Sustainable Consumption |
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DEFRA 27 May 2004 |
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Chair of the Sustainable Development Commission and Programme Director of Forum for the Future |
| Introduction |
Bob Davies, DEFRA |
| Speaker |
Peter Madden, Head of Environmental Policy, Environmental Agency |
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Richard Lewney, Managing Director, Cambridge Econometrics |
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Prof Tim Jackson, University of Surrey |
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Michael Jacobs, member of the Council of Economic Advisers at HM Treasury
Nick Hartley, Senior Adviser, OXERA
Prof Clive Spash, President of the European Society of Ecological Economics and Head of the Socio-Economics Research Programme, The Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen
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