EAERE - FEEM - VIU - European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics

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Since 2000 the European Association of Environmental and Resources Economists (EAERE), the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM), and the Venice International University (VIU) have been successfully running their European Summer School in Resource and Environmental Economics. The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on European issues of environmental and resource economics.

This Summer School series has recently received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility, within the project ESS RESECON. The Action aims to provide short-term training opportunities to allow researchers to network and keep abreast of the latest scientific developments in their field. It is targeted primarily at early-stage researchers and researchers with up to 10 years of experience.Thanks to the financial support of the European Commission, the Organizers are able to continue this prestigious series of events and offer grants for the students’ participation.

The summer schools series are addressed to small groups of doctoral students in environmental and resource economics from all over Europe and beyond. They follow a traditional structure: lectures by professors, students' presentation, reading time, consultation sessions and social events. The faculty is comprised of leaders in the field, and offers an overall coverage of the specialist area.

2008 Summer School - Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology
The 2008 Summer School will take place from the 6th to the 12th of July at the VIU campus on the Island of San Servolo, in Venice, located just in front of Piazza San Marco.

The theme of this Summer School is Space in Unified Models of Economy and Ecology. Economic and ecological systems evolve in time and space. Interactions take place among units occupying distinct spatial points and geographical patterns of production activities, urban concentrations, or species concentrations occur. The emergence of spatial patterns in economics has received relatively little systematic analysis, with the notable exception of the body of knowledge developed in the context of new economic geography. On the other hand, the concept of diffusion has been used in ecological modeling to explain spatial pattern formation in ecological systems.
Spatial analysis, in ecological modeling has received increased attention recently through the joint Beijer/FEEM/ICTP program.

The purpose of this Summer School is to review and present methods of modeling spatial problems in ecological economics, and to show how these methods can be used in environmental and resource management. In this context the Summer Schools is expected to cover issues associated with:
- the use of diffusion processes to model evolution in time and space;
- the implications of "the Turing mechanism" for diffusive instability, and the emergence of steady state spatial patterns;
- the control of diffusion processes in ecological/economic models which evolve in time and space;
- applications of spatial methods to environmental and resource management and regulation problems, where space is important as in cases of patchy environments, species movements, pollution diffusion. These problems could include harvesting of renewable resources, management of pollution diffused in space, bioinvasions, elements of spatial econometrics and GIS.

Admission and Application - DEADLINE February 1, 2008
> Call for applications

The Summer School is targeted to PhD students. Admission is conditional on the presentation by each student of his/her doctoral work; therefore applicants normally need to be advanced in their PhD to have produced at least one substantive chapter, but not to have completely finished their thesis. Admission to the School is open to both European and non-European citizens. Application is restricted to current EAERE members. Women are encourage to apply. Given the highly interactive activities planned at the Summer School, the number of participants is limited to 20.
There is no participation fee.

Sholarships
This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility. Scholarships covering living and travel grants are available and will be awarded to successful applicants.

For further information:

Ms. Angela Marigo - ess@feem.it
Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei
Castello 5252
30122 Venice - Italy
Tel. +39 041 2711468
Fax. +39 041 2711461
www.feem.it/ess

This activity is part of the ESS RESECON project, that has received funding from the European Community's Sixth Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions - Human Resources and Mobility. Sole responsibility lies within the author and the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained herein

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