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Dear LAERE Community, 

We invite you to have your voice heard and participate in a survey that will examine the degree of global professional consensus on various topics in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. This survey is, or already has been given to members of EAERE, AAERE, AFAERE, and AERE. By participating in this survey, you will help make sure that the results generated are robust, and representative globally.

Time commitment: 10 – 15 minutes.

Anonymity and Data Usage: All data is anonymous and confidential. Data will be used for research purposes only. Results will be shared with LAERE community.

Survey Link: https://go.unl.edu/globalconsensussurvey

Please complete the survey by November 30^th, 2025. The survey is mobile-friendly but is best taken on a computer.

If you have questions, please contact us. Feel free to forward this invitation to your colleagues.

Thank you for your input!! Your participation will make an important contribution towards measuring, and understanding, levels of professional consensus in the discipline.

If you have any questions, you can contact:

Prof. Lea-Rachel Kosnik (University of Missouri-St. Louis):  kosnikl@umsl.edu 

Prof. Simanti Banerjee (University of Nebraska-Lincoln): simanti.banerjee@unl.edu

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The Program of Research in Environmental Economics and Natural Resources, University of Concepcion, a member of the international network for Environment for Development Initiative (EfD), has the pleasure to invite you to the Eleventh Annual Meeting of NENRE EfD-Chile. This event will bring together researchers, policy-makers, students and various stakeholders to discuss the environmental challenges most urgent of Chile and of the Global North and South.

Deadline for submission of papers: September 05, 2025.

Event dates: 06, and 07 November 2025.

Links relevant:

• Web site: https://sites.google.com/view/nenre-efdchile/workshop-2025

• Submission of papers: https://www.even3.com.br/nenre2025-608372/ (requires account in Even3).
• Hotel Termas de Catillo: https://termascatillo.cl/

Thematic areas

You will work in the following research lines:

1. Fisheries and aquaculture.
2. Energy.
3. Environmental economics.
4. Agriculture.
5. Climate change.
6. Pollution of water, air and noise.
7. Gender, intersectionality, and the environment.
8. Waste management.
9. Mining.
10. Companies and challenges of sustainability.
11. Water resources.
12. Other related area of the Economy on Natural Resources and the Environment.

Nomination of jobs

It invites researchers, students, undergraduate, master and doctoral degrees, professional services, public and private, as well as governmental and non governmental organizations to submit their papers to be presented at the Meeting.

• Accepted extended abstracts (< 1,000 words excluding references, structure-free) or a full manuscript (< to 6,000 words excluding references, structure-free), in format DOCX or PDF format, written in Spanish or English.
• The deadline for the submission of work expires September 5, 2025. 
• Notifications of acceptance or rejection will be mailed the first week of October 2025. 
• Papers must be submitted via the following link: https://www.even3.com.br/nenre2025-608372/. you Need to create an account Even3.

To type of event

The meeting format will be a hybrid (face-to-face and virtual), in the Hotel Termas de Catillo, located in the city of Parral, Maule Region, Chile. The participation is free, but pre-registration is required once the form is not publicly available.

The organization will cover coffee breaks during the sessions. However, the costs of transportation, accommodation and feeding shall be covered by those who participate in person.

Scholarships for students

Will be awarded to a limited number of scholarships for undergraduate students, master’s degree or doctorate that send jobs to the event, which will cover part or all of the costs of participation. The results of this call will be informed as soon as possible after the notification of acceptance.

Structure of the Meeting

The program will include:

• Parallel sessions of research.
• Panel discussions on public policy.

More details on the plenary sessions and follow-up activities will be informed in a timely manner.

Inquiries and contact

For more information, please contact: 

Christopher Vasquez-Quezada

Project coordinator 

NENRE EfD-Chile 

cristvasquez@udec.cl

We see the 06 and 07  November!

Organizing Team

11° Annual Meeting of NENRE EfD-Chile

CALL FOR PAPERS

Scientific Committee

Alejandro Lopez-Feldman (University of Gothenburg and U. Iberoamericana)

Elisa Belfiori (Universidad Torcuato di Tella)

Felipe Vasquez (University for Development)

Jorge Maldonado (University of los Andes, Colombia)

Juan Odriozola (CAF)

Juan Pablo Montero (PUC-Chile)

Marcela Jaime (University of Concepcion)

Marcelo Caffera (Universidad de Montevideo)

Nathaly Rivera (University of Chile)

Rafael Araújo (FGV EESP)

Call for papers on environmental economics

The Research Institute for Development, Growth and Economics (RIDGE) is pleased to announce a call for papers for the seventh Workshop on Environmental Economics, to be held in person in Montevideo, Uruguay, on 8 and 9 December 2025.

The deadline for the submission of papers is September 8, 2025.

Accepted contributions relevant to understanding the most important challenges of environmental policy in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). These include studies of specific countries of LAC, as well as analysis of institutional comparative. We can also accept papers that address issues in other regions which are considered relevant to LAC.

We accept contributions in both theoretical and empirical.

The workshop will be held in the framework of the Forum RIDGE of December 2025, along with the following workshops:

International macroeconomics – 9-10 December 2025

Financial stability – 11-12 December 2025

International trade – 10-11 December 2025

Growth and development in macroeconomics – 11-12 December 2025

Towards sustainable growth – December 2025 (to be confirmed)

Presentation of papers

Accepted completed papers, written in English, through the web site. The cover should include: the title of the paper, the institutional affiliation, address, telephone and e-mail of each author, as well as a summary of the classification JEL ® corresponding.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format and the file must be saved in the following way: ‘the author’s Last name, author’s name, title of the paper.pdf’.

Each author can present and display a maximum of one item per workshop (it is possible to submit articles to other workshops).

Important dates

Deadline for submission of articles: September 13, 2025

You will be contacted by the authors of the selected articles before October 21, 2025.

More information

If you have any questions, please visit www.ridge.org.uy or send an email to secretariat@ridge.org.uy.

Date: May 10, 2024

In a continued effort to combat the consequences of socio illegal mining, the Center of Financial Sustainability (CSF) is pleased to announce the latest update of our pioneering Calculator Impacts Miners. Initially developed in 2021 to help the brazilian government to deal with the mining operations illegal, this tool is the first in the world designed to calculate the costs of social and environmental associated with the illegal mining of gold.

This year, the updated version of the calculator expands its reach to the whole of Latin America and the Caribbean, with implementations initials in countries such as Peru, Guyana, Bolivia and Suriname. The calculator provides estimates vital about the potential damages that the illegal mining can cause both the environment and local communities, provides a solid basis for decision making and the design of public policies.

The Calculator Impacts Miners is a testimony to the power of economic tools in the resolution of critical challenges for the conservation and sustainable development. With plans to expand its support to more countries, CSF demonstrates its commitment to environmental protection and social development at the global level.

For more information on this innovative tool and its application, we invite you to read the full article in Mongabay, which details the work and the achievements of the Calculator Impacts Miners.

You can read more about the Calculator in the last article of Mongabay this work. 

Economics of the Environment and Development

Deadline for paper submission: march 31, 2025

Guest editors: Jorge Alexander Bonilla (Universidad de Los Andes); Rohini Support (School of Economics, Delhi)

Economics of the Environment and Development you want to publish a special issue on the political economy of transitions to a clean air. The number will be released by Jorge Bonilla, of the University of The Andes, and Rohini

Support from the School of Economics, Delhi.

The journal Economics of the environment and development are invited to submit papers for a special issue focused on the political economy of transitions to a clean air. This issue, edited by Jorge Bonilla, of the University of The Andes, and Rohini Support, of the School of Economics, Delhi, aims to explore policy approaches to improve urban air quality, especially in regions of the global south that are urbanizing rapidly.

🌍 Context and purpose

While many cities around the world are faced with poor air quality, the challenges faced by urban centers in rapid growth in the global South are different. Issues such as weak governance and limited resources tend to hinder the transition to cleaner fuels and an efficient public transportation, even when these changes improve the well-being. This special issue aims to create a corpus of knowledge on the policy and institutional factors that influence the success or failure of policies in these contexts.

The special issue will collect case studies that analyze political reforms specific, successful or not, by examining the political economy of the formulation and implementation of policies. Your goal is to answer questions such as:

Why are some policies that improve the well-being applied more easily in certain cities than others?

What types of transfer agreements can facilitate the change?

📝 Guidelines for the submission

Deadline: Send the articles prior to march 31, 2025.

Shipping process: We recommend sending the items with in advance, since they will be processed as they are received. All items shipped will be subject to the standard review process in function of its quality and relevance to the special issue.

How to submit articles: articles should be submitted on-line through: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ede. During the first step of the shipping process, in the field ‘special issue’, the authors must select ‘clean Air’. The authors must also indicate in your cover letter that the manuscript is for the special issue, ‘The political economy of transitions to a clean air’.

Format: articles may be qualitative or a combination of qualitative and quantitative research. Each article should focus on a case study of a policy or concrete reform related to the quality of urban air.

For more details, refer to the Instructions for contributors, or contact the guest editors:

Jorge Alexander Bonilla, Universidad de Los Andes: jobonill@uniandes.edu.co

Rohini Support, Delhi School of Economics: rohini@econdse.org

It is increasingly recognized the fact that all of the economic profession is characterized by an underrepresentation of women. The profession has several components: students and teachers from different levels in the universities, the ecosystem editorial (magazines, editors, referees), conferences and decision making roles and leadership. Although it is gradually being recognized, the general problem of gender imbalance, are not adequately understood the precise contours of the under-representation and it is necessary to document them.

The Economic Association International (IEA) calls for research proposals well-defined that generate evidence on ‘what works’, that is to say, what interventions are effective and successful to reduce the gender gap in the economy,. The evidence can be obtained, for example, through pilot trials of new interventions or analyzing the impact of existing policies. We hope that even a few successful studies may help to modify the professional practice thanks to the power of examples and concrete models.

Call for proposals:

We will give priority to the research proposals that focus on any of these four countries: Argentina, Colombia, Ghana and Mexico. , however, we are also open to proposals of other developing countries.

Submission deadline: November 15, 2024.

For more information about the IEA-WE and the call for proposals, please visit the website of the IEA-WE.

Please provide us your proposal!

Deadline: November 15, 2024

Invited the members of the Latin american Association of Economists and Environmental Resources (LAERE) to submit proposals for complete sessions for the I Congress of the Latin american Association of Economists and Environmental Resources. The Congress will take place in Bogota (Colombia) from 19 to 21 march 2025. This provides practitioners and academics with the opportunity to increase the visibility of their research and to promote our field of research.

The sessions last 75 minutes. Each special session is organized by a person acting as president and three (3) speakers with 25 minutes each. It requires a slide presentation (e.g., PowerPoint) for each contribution oral, but the online submission system also allows the partners to upload full-text articles or other type of support material.

Participants who wish to participate in the event with a session organized by LAERE need to send a file that includes the following information:

· The title and a summary of the session.

· The central theme of the session in terms of thematic categories general (for example, agricultural policy and rural).

· Name, affiliation and contact details of the president.

· The author or authors, the title and the abstract of each contribution.

The phrase ‘Call for the presentation of sessions’ should appear in the file name.

Link to send: https://live.eventtia.com/es/call-for-sessions-laere  

The session proposals that do not include all required information will not be considered.

Receipts are sent electronically to all senders.

The deadline to submit your proposal to LAERE is on the 15th of November, 2024.

Proposals will be evaluated in advance by a committee appointed by LAERE.

It is expected that the notification of the selection made before December 10th.

For more information or to discuss your participation, please contact info@laere.org