Staff Seminar

The Environment and Natural Resources - Christine Bertram & Christine Merk

02 May 2017

From the IFW event series: Research Seminar

14:00

15:00

Institut für Weltwirtschaft

Speaker

Christine Bertram (Kiel Institute, RA "The Environment and Natural Resources")

Abstract

We analyze optimal multi-species management in a dynamic bio-economic model taking into account both harvesting profit and biodiversity value. Within an analytical model, we show that extinction is never optimal when a global biodiversity value is taken into account. Moreover, a stronger preference for species diversity leads to a more even distribution of stock sizes in the optimal steady state, and a higher value of biodiversity increases steady state stock sizes for all species when species are ecologically independent or symbiotic. For a predator–prey ecosystem, the effects may be positive or negative depending on relative prices and the strength of species interaction. The analytical results are illustrated and extended using an age-structured three-species predator–prey model for the Baltic cod, sprat, and herring fisheries. In this quantitative application, we find that using stock biomass or stock numbers as abundance indicators in the biodiversity index may lead to opposite results.

Authors

Christine Bertram (Kiel Institute) — Martin Quaas (Kiel University)

Speaker

Christine Merk (Kiel Institute, RA "The Environment and Natural Resources")

Abstract

We will present a brief overview of past and future research on Climate Engineering in the research area The Environment and Natural Resources. We will then give an overview of the results of an expert survey on climate engineering and how experts’ views compare to lay persons’ views.

Authors

Christine Merk (Kiel Institute) — Gert Pönitzsch (Kiel Institute) — Katrin Rehdanz (Kiel Institute, Kiel University)

The Environment and Natural Resources - Christine Bertram & Christine Merk

Biodiversity and Optimal Multi-Species Ecosystem Management

Speaker

Abstract

Authors

Research on Climate Engineering at the Kiel Institute and Scientists’ and Lay Persons’ Views on Climate Engineering

Speaker

Abstract

Authors

Dr. Christine Bertram

Dr. Christine Merk

Institution

Exports and New Products in China – A Modified Matching Model to Include Firm-to-Firm Spillovers — Aoife Hanley

Linking the EU and Chinese ETS — Malte Winkler

Global Commons and Climate Policy

Kiel Institute for
the World Economy