Mary Psilou

Two New ICRE8 Projects!

ICRE8 is enthusiastic about participating in the newly funded H2020 projects: SIMRA: Social Innovation in Marginalised Rural Areas Coordinator: James Hutton Institute SIMRA’s overarching objective is to fill the significant knowledge gap in understanding and enhancing social innovation in marginalised rural areas by advancing the state-of-the-art in social innovation and connected governance mechanisms in agriculture and …

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Scientific Seminar at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, 25th February, 2015

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri (ICRE8, AUEB, LSE), ICRE8 (www.icre8.eu) Scientific Director, gave a Scientific Seminar at Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology on ‘A Choice Experiment for the Estimation of the Economic Value of the River Ecosystem: Management Policies for Sustaining NATURA (2000) species and the Coastal Environment’. You can download the lecture from here.

Journal Ecosystem Services, Special Issue on: Marine economics and policy related to ecosystem services: Lessons from the world’s regional seas

The Special Issue has been published and contains fifteen papers. One of the papers is written by ICRE8 researchers and Scientific Director, and has the title: ‘Valuing climate change mitigation: A choice experiment on a coastal and marine ecosystem’. The paper estimates the willingness to pay for mitigation measures against natural hazards caused by climate …

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CIGESMED project

ICRE8 is pleased to announce its participation to the CIGESMED project http://www.cigesmed.eu/. CIGESMED, is a multidisciplinary project of fundamental and operational ecology (according to European Directives such as MSFD, WFD, FFHD). It has also an important “citizen science” aspect in its design. The whole consortium will meet at Lesbos 19-22 of May to be prepared to …

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GLOBAQUA: 1st Evrotas Case Study Meeting

Yannis Souliotis, ICRE8 (www.icre8.eu) researcher, introduced the work of WP9 (Socioeconomics) to stakeholders of the Evrotas GLOBAQUA case study. The meeting took place at the “Museum of the Olive and Greek Olive Oil” in Sparta. Globaqua (http://www.globaqua-project.eu/) assesses the effects of water scarcity on aquatic ecosystems by focusing on six river basins (Ebro, Adige, Sava, …

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1st Symposium on Energy, Environment and Climate Change

Prof. Phoebe Koundouri (ICRE8, AUEB, LSE) participated in the 1st Symposium on Energy, Environment and Climate Change. NGO Ioannis Kapodistrias, member of the Youth for Europe team, organized the first Energy Symposium, Environment & Climate Change. The Symposium was held under the Volunteering & Culture Without Borders festival 2014 at the Hilton Athens. The festival was hosted …

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OECD | Economic Instruments Project

Economic Instruments to Protect Freshwater Resources in the Republic of Buryatia, Lake Baikal Basin. The Republic of Buryatia is facing severe constraints to economic and social development that derive from the administrative ban and restrictions on economic activities in the Lake Baikal protected area.  Duration: 31 December 2013 to 25 November 2014 Project Funding: Organization for …

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Project on The Economic Value of Groundwater | The Environment Agency

Project on The Economic Value of Groundwater | The UK Environment Agency  The Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD) has invited Prof. Phoebe Koundouri to review the final report of the study “Economic Valuation of Groundwater in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi”. EAD has commissioned RTI to conduct an economic valuation of groundwater in the Emirate of …

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Bank of Greece | Report on Climate Change

Through the CCISC’s research and activities, the Bank of Greece aims to contribute to the conduct of appropriate policies aimed to address the risks and exploit the opportunities arising from climate change. Climate change, environmental and energy issues are regularly discussed in a separate chapter of the Bank’s Annual Report. Bank of Greece Report on Climate Change Climate Change …

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European Commission | DG Environment (DG ENV):The impact of REACH on the environment and human health

European Commission, DG Environment (DG ENV): ‘The impact of REACH on the environment and human health’ (reference: ENV.C.3/SER/ 2004/0042r)    Period: September 2005 Coordinators: DHI Water & Environment (DHI) Report to DG Environment “The impact of REACH on the environment and human health” (ENV.C.3/SER/2004/0042r) September 2005   Prof. Koundouri and David Pearce have been subcontracted …

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FP6 | E-LUP: Simulating land-use processes – an interactive e-tool for SIA

E-LUP: Simulating land-use processes – an interactive e-tool for SIA The objective is to train in the use of sustainability impact and policy assessment in EU and Russia, especially in issues concerning forests, agricultural landscapes, water environments and built-up areas through the development of an innovative and interactive e-tool for multiple end users. This freeware …

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FP5 | BIOECON: Biodiversity and economics for conservation

BIOECON: Biodiversity and economics for conservation  BIOECON aims to (a) Advance economic theory on incentive mechanism design -developing a general economic framework and specific testable hypotheses for the consideration of incentive mechanisms for the provision of biodiversity; (b) Apply economic analysis in biodiversity conservation case studies – the application of this framework and the test …

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