Contact Info
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Phoebe Koundouri, BA, MPhil, MSc, PhD(Cambridge)
Associate Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
Address: AUEB, 76, Patission Street, Athens 104 34, Greece
Email: pkoundouri@aueb.gr
Skype name: phoebe_koundouri

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Prof. Koundouri on a field in Bangladesh.

Conferences, Workshop and Seminar Presentations


Conference Presentations
(Abstracts Published in Conference Proceeding):

  • Water Economics, Statistic and Finance, International Water Association (IWA) Conference, 24-26, 2013, Marabella, Spain.
    -M. Pulido Velazquez, J. Sauer, P Kondouri, A. Allan, B. Klove. The EU FP7 GENESIS project on groundwater systems. Contributions to the economic, legal and institutional issues of groundwater management with selected EU case studies.
    -Phoebe Koundouri, Encarna Esteban, Isabela Godyn, I. Ethem Gonenc, Nusret Karakaya, Ioannis Kountouris, Nikolaos Kourogenis, Zoran Nakic, Manuel Pulido-Velazquez, and Johannes Sauer. Application of Valuation Techniques to Assess the Benefits of Water Quality Improvements. Lessons from the GENESIS project.

  • PROJECTS CO-FUNDED BY THE SEVENTH FRAMEWORK PROGRAMME (FP7/2007-20013), WITHIN THE OCEAN OF TOMORROW JOINT CALL 2011: 1st Joint Workshop on Environmental Impact and Sociao-Economic Analysis, JPI Oceans Office, European Comission, 22-23, 2013, Brussels, Belgium.
    -Socio-Economic Analysis in MERMAID FP7 Project.

  • 50th ECSA (Estuarine & Coastal Sciences Association) Conference: Today's science for tomorrow's Management. 3-7 June 2012, NH Laguna Palace, Venice, Italy. http://www.estuarinecoastalconference.com
    - The economic valuation of climate change effects on coastal ecosystems: a choice experiment capturing short, medium and long run aspects

  • Coastal Ecosystems Vulnerability to Global Change and Extreme Events: At the crossroads of knowledge to the benefit of coastal and marine ecosystem services, 18 - 21 october 2011, Biarritz, France. http://http://wwz.ifremer.fr/biarritz_2011_eng
    - Can Coastal Europe Insure Against Climate Change: A Review of Experiences on Floods and Soil Erosion

  • European Association of Agricultural Economics (EAAE) 2011 Congress: Change nad Uncertainty, Challenges for Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, August 30 to September 2. http://www.eaae2011.ch
    - Warm glow in charitable auctions: Are the WEIRDos driving the results?
    - Volatility Trends and Optimal Portfolios: the Case of Agricultural Commodities

  • 18th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 29 June - 2 July 2011, Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy.
    http://www.webmeets.com/EAERE/2011/Prog
    - Warm glow in charitable auctions: Are the WEIRDos driving the results?
    - Does institutional context affect preference formation? Evidence from a stated preference valuation study.
    - Are preferences for Environmental Qality Sensitive to Financial Funding Schemes? Evidence from Marine Restoration Programme in the Black Sea.

  • 1st International conference on Sustainable Watershed Management, 19-23 September, Istanbul, Turkey, 2011. http://www.igemportal.org/
    -Water Resources Management and the Value of Scientific Information: A Choice Experiment

  • European Geosciences Union General Assembly: Natural Hazards Session. Vienna, Austria, 03 – 08 April, 2011.
    - Can Coastal Europe Insure Against Climate Change: A Review of Experiences on Floods and Soil Erosion.

  • SESAME Final Scientific Conference, Electra Palace Athens Greece, 04-08 April, 2011.
    - Are Stated Preferences Sensitive to Funding Sources? A Tax Reallocation Scheme to Value Marine Restoration in the Black Sea.

  • 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. June 28-July 2nd, 2010.
    - Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach

  • Invited Speaker. Conference of the Greek Association of Exporters: ‘An outreaching Economy: Link with the Future’. 5-6/5/2010, Hotel Grande Bretagne, Athens.
    - Green/Sustainable Development: How an economist implements these concepts?

  • Keynote Speaker. Global System Dynamics and Policies: Water Seminar Day. 18th March, 2010, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus.
    - The Economics of the Water Framework Directive: Do we really need economists in water resources management?

  • Agricultural and Applied Economics Association Session, Allied Social Science Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta GA, January 3-5, 2010.
    - Arsenic Mitigation in Bangladesh: A Household Labor Market Approach.

  • 11th Annual BIOECON Conference on Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity. Centro Culturale Don Orione Artigianelli - Venice, Italy, September 21-22, 2009 Organizer of the session on: Valuing Conservation: Spatial and Institutional Aspects
    - Testing Government Trust: A Choice Experiment on Forest Fires.

  • Environmental Science and Technology International Conference, Chania 3-5 September, 2009. http://www.gnest.org/cest/
    - Implementing the Economic Aspects of the Water Framework Directive under Data Limitations: A Rapid Appraisal Approach.

  • International water association conference, Alexandroupolis, 3-5 July, 2009. http://www.soc.uoc.gr/iwa/iwa_page.php
    - Implementing the Economic Aspects of the Water Framework Directive under Data Limitations: A Rapid Appraisal Approach.

  • Conference in Economic Theory and Econometrics, CRETE 2009, Tinos, 8-12 July, 2009.
    - Testing Government Trust: A Choice Experiment on Forest Fires.

  • 2nd International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance, Alexandroupolis - Thrace, Greece, 3-5 July 2009,http://www.soc.uoc.gr/iwa
    - Assessing the Economic Viability of Alternative Water Resources in Water Scarce Regions: The Role of Economic Valuation, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Discounting
    - Implementing the Economic Aspects of the Water Framework Directive under Data Limitations: A Rapid Appraisal Approach.

  • 17th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, VU University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 24 - 27 June 2009
    - A Duration Model of Technology Adoption under Production Uncertainty: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology
    - Tradable Permits Vs Ecological Dumping
    - Assessing the Economic Viability of Alternative Water Resources in Water Scarce Regions: The Role of Economic Valuation, Cost-Benefit Analysis and Discounting
    - Implementing the Economic Aspects of the Water Framework Directive under Data Limitations: A Rapid Appraisal Approach.

  • International Association of Agricultural Economics Conference, Beijing, August 16-22, 2009.
    - Assessing the economic viability of alternative water resources and policy instruments in water scarce regions: The roles of economic valuation cost - benefit analysis and discounting.

  • 11th International Conference on Environmental Science and Technology - CEST2009 - Chania, Crete, Greece. 3-5 September 2009.
    - Testing Government Trust: A Choice Experiment on Forest Fires.

  • 10th Annual BIOECON Conference, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 28-30 September 2008.
    - The optimal management of wetlands: quantifying trade-offs between flood risks, recreation and biodiversity conservation.

  • 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists that will be held in Gothenburg, Sweden 25 - 28 June 2008.
    - Decreasing Discount Rates: Economic Justifications and Implications for Long-Run Policy.
    - The Importance of Model Selection in Choice Experiment Valuation: A Case study on travel time savings, accidents and pollution reduction, from a highway construction in Greece.
    - Valuing a Wind Farm Construction: A contingent valuation study in Greece. Energy Journal.
    - Optimal Second-Best Environmental Policies under Uncertainty.
    - Optimal management of wetlands: quantifying trade-offs between flood risks, recreation and biodiversity conservation.

  • Economic Policy panel meeting in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 18-19 April 2008.
    - Decreasing Discount Rates: Economic Justifications and Implications for Long-Run Policy

  • NTERREG III B (MEDOCC Programme) European Conference on Mediterranean Studies on Renewable Energy Sources and their contribution to Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece, Feb 14-15, 2008.
    - Valuing a Wind Farm Construction: A contingent valuation study in Greece.

  • Jean Monnet International Conference on Protection, Restoration and Sustainable Development of Natural and Cultural Environment in Europe, Aristotelion University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Nov 30th-Dec 01, 2007.
    - The optimal management of wetlands: quantifying trade-offs between flood risks, recreation and biodiversity conservation.

  • 15th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental Resource Economists, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 27-30, 2007.
    - Integrating Wetland Management into Sustainable Water Resources Allocation: The Case of Akrotiri Wetland in Cyprus.

  • Ninth Annual BIOECON Conference on ‘Economics and the Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity’, Kings College Cambridge, September 20-21, 2006.http://www.bioecon.ucl.ac.uk/
    - Water resources management and wetland conservation: The case of Akrotiri wetland in Cyprus.

  • 3rd International Symposium on Integrated Water Resources Management, Reducing The Vulnerability of Societies Against Water Related Risks at the Basin Scale, 26 - 28 September 2006 Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.
    - Water resources management and wetland conservation: The case of Akrotiri wetland in Cyprus
    - Using a Choice Experiment to Account for Preference Heterogeneity in Wetland Attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.

  • 3rd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Kyoto, Japan, July 3-7, 2006. http://www.worldcongress3.org/
    - Declining Discount Rates: A Cross-Country Comparison.
    - The Value of Property Rights in Groundwater Extraction: A Choice Experiment.
    - Using a Choice Experiment to Account for Preference Heterogeneity in Wetland Attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.

  • The European Agricultural Economists Congress, Copenhagen, August 24-27, 2005. http://www.eaae2005.dk
    Cooperative and non-cooperative extraction in a stochastic sequential groundwater model.

  • Eighth Annual BIOECON Conference on ‘Economics and the Analysis of Ecology and Biodiversity’, Kings College Cambridge, September 20-21, 2005. http://www.bioecon.ucl.ac.uk/
    Using a choice experiment to estimate the non-use values of wetlands: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.

  • CESinfo Venice Summer Institute Workshop on the Design of Climate Policy – David Bradford Memorial Conference, San Servolo, Venice, July 22-23, 2005.
    The crucial effect of the Estimation of Long-Run Discount Rates on Climate Change Policy.

  • International Conference on Water Economics, Statistics, and Finance, Rethymno-Crete, Greece, 8-10 July, 2005. http://www.soc.uoc.gr/iwa/iwa_page.php
    - Using a choice experiment to estimate the non-use values of wetlands: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.
    - Technology Adoption Under Production Risk: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology.

  • 14th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental Resource Economists, Bremen, Germany, 23-26 June, 2005. http://www.conferences.iu-bremen.de/EAERE2005
    An Econometric Approach to Estimating Long-Run Discount Rates

  • American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) Annual Meeting in Denver, August 1-4, 2004, USA.
    Technology Adoption Under Production Risk: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology.

  • Conference on Research on Economic Theory and Econometrics, July 12-16, 2004, Ermoupolis, Syros, Greece.
    Model Selection for Establishing Certainty Equivalent Discount Rates

  • 1st conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of the Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, University of Vigo, 18-19 June, 2004.
    Model Selection for Establishing Certainty Equivalent Discount Rates

  • International Conference on ‘Sustainable Resource Use and Economic Dynamics’. ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Institute of Economic Research, Zurich, 6-10 June, 2004.
    Model Selection for Establishing Certainty Equivalent Discount Rates.

  • 13th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental Resource Economists, Budapest University of Economic Sciences and Public Administration, Budapest 25-28th June, 2004.
    An Econometric Approach to Estimating Long-Run Discount Rates.
    Cooperative and non-cooperative extraction in a stochastic sequential groundwater model.

  • Royal Economic Society Conference, Swansea, April 2-5, 2004.
    - An Econometric Approach to Estimating Long-Run Discount Rates.

  • Applied Environmental Economics International Conference, March 26, 2004, London.
    - Model Selection for Establishing Certainty Equivalent Discount Rates.

  • International Conference on ‘Water Resources Management in Water Stresses Environments and Islands: the Challenge of Eco-adaptation’, February 1-4, 2004, La Palma.
    - Sustainable Water Resource Management under Eco-adaptive Processes.

  • The 5th IRSA International Conference on ‘Regional Development in a Decentralized Era: Public Services, Poverty and the Environment’, July, 18-19, 2003, Bangkok, Indonesia.
    - Hedonic Price Analysis and Location Bias: Demand for Housing and Willingness to Pay for Domestic Water.

  • Twelve Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 2003, Bilbao, Spain. https://www.gruponahise.com/eaere2003/program.htm
    - Endogenous Technology Adoption Under Production Risk: Theory and Application to Irrigation Technology.
    - Multi-Output Distance Function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery.
    - Discounting in Cost Benefit Analysis: The Long and the Short of it.

  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on the Sustainable Development of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment; hosted by the Greek Presidency of the European Union, 29-31, May 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece.
    - Choices Taking into Account Costs not reflected on the Market: the Case of Water in Cyprus.

  • International Conference on the Economic Management of Fisheries, University of Bergen, Centre of Fishery Economics, 10-11, June 2003, Bergen, Norway.
    - Multi-Output Distance Function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery
    - The effects of Output Quotas on Production Risk in the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery.

  • Invited Speaker at the European Voice Chemicals Conference, 30 March 2003, Brussels, Belgium.
    - Quantifying the environmental costs and benefits of the EU REACH (Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals) Directive.

  • Invited Speaker at the International Conference on Science in Support of European Water Policies: Sustainability of Aquatic Ecosystems, 26-28, November 2002, Stresa, Lago Maggiore, Italy. http://ies.jrc.cec.eu.int/Units/imw/events/AQUAECO
    - Water Resources Use and Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: The Arid Cluster.

  • Conference in Economic Theory and Econometrics (CRETE), Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania, July 1-4, 2002, Greece. http://www.aueb.gr/deos/Summer%20School/SSEET.htm
    - Irrigation Water Management Under Risk

  • Second World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2002, June 24-27, Monterey, California, USA. http://weber.ucsd.edu/~carsonvs
    - Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production

  • International Conference on Irrigation Water Policies: Micro and Macro Considerations, 2002, June 15-17, Agadir, Morocco. http://www.worldbank.org/agadirconference both papers appear in the conference proceeding (edited by Ariel Dinar).
    - Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.
    - A Methodology for Integrated Watershed Management.

  • 79th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE): Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics 2002, June 5-7, Wageningen University, The Netherlands.
    - Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.

  • 7th Spring Meeting of Young Economists 2002, April 18-20, University of Paris 1, Paris, France.
    - On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.

  • ASSET Euro Conference, October, 2001, Rethymno, Crete, Greece.
    - Stochastic Technology and Risk Attitudes in Agricultural Production.

  • Eleventh Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June, 2001, Department of Economics, University of Southampton, UK.
    - On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.

  • ASSET Euro Conference, November, 2000, Lisbon, Portugal.
    - Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity: A Distance Function Approach.

  • 70th Annual Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, August 2000, University of Thessalonica, Greece.
    - On the Use of the Stochastic Distance Function to Deriving Resource Scarcity Rents.

  • Tenth Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June, 2000, University of Crete, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece.
    - Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.

  • Mediterranean Conference: “Policies and Strategies for Desalination and Renewable Energies”, Santorini, Greece, June 2000, National University of Athens, Renewable Energy Sources Unit, Athens, Greece.
    - Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.

  • Annual Conference of American Economic Association, 1998, Berlin, Germany.
    - Reconsidering the Mathematical Structure of the Gisser-Snachez Paradox in Water Resource Management.


    • Workshop Presentations

  • THESUS FP7 Project Meeting, Varna, 15-17, May, Bulgary
    -Insurance Instruments for Extreme Climate Events
    -Costs Benefits Analysis in Decisions Support Systems for Extreme Climate Events

  • GENESIS FP7 Meeting, Krakow, 8-9 May, 2013
    -Different Methodologies towards Valuing Groundwater Benefits: Results from GENESIS WP6

  • MERMAID FP7 Project Meeting, Deltares, Delft, 17-18, April, 2013, Netherlands
    -Plennary on Costs Benefits Analysis of Off-Shore Platforms.

  • European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics Council Meeting
    - Technical University of Instanbul, Instanbul, 1st, March, 2013.

  • MERMAID FP7 European Project Meeting, ITU, Istanbul, 24th-26th September, 2012.
    - Plenary Session Lecture: Deriving Economic Values from Stakeholders Preferences.

  • GENESIS European Integrated Project Meeting. Ferrara, Italy, 11-14 March, 2011.
    - A Choice Experiment and Distance Function Econometric Analysis Informing the Implementation of the WFD.

  • GENESIS European Integrated Project Meeting. Zurich, Switzerland, 17 December, 2010.
    - A Choice Experiment and Distance Function Econometric Analysis Informing the Implementation of the WFD.

  • GENESIS European Integrated Project Meeting. Valencia, Spain, 25-28 October, 2010.
    - Measuring the Value of Water in Agriculture under Climate Change Uncertainty: A Micro-econometric Analysis on Vosvozi case study.

  • GENESIS European Integrated Project Meeting. Rokua, Finland, 28-30 October, 2010.
    - The Value of Scientific Information: A Choice Experiment.

  • THESEUS: Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate. European Integrated Project Meeting. Leveun, Belgium, 2-4 June, 2010.
    - The Economic Valuation of the Effects of Floods: A Choice Experiment.

  • THESEUS: Innovative coastal technologies for safer European coasts in a changing climate. European Integrated Project Meeting. Venice, Italy, 9-11 December, 2009.
    - Natural Disasters and Insurance Markets

  • Bank of Greece Workshop on Climate Change Economics in Greece. Bank of Greece, Athens, 16 March, 2010.

  • GENESIS European Integrated Project Meeting. Alexandroupolis, Thraki Palace Hotel and Conference Centre, March 22-26, 2010.
    - Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Implementation of the Water Framework Directive.

  • European Workshop on Groundwater and dependent Ecosystems: New Scientific basis on climate change and land-use impacts for the update of the EU Groundwater Directive. 14-19 April, 2009, Istanbul, Turkey
    - Economic Methods in Revealing the anthropocentric Values of Groundwater and dependent Ecosystems

  • Scientific Workshop on Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling the changes in Ecosystems. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 1- 3, April, 2009.
    - An eco-systemic Choice Experiment on the Black Sea

  • Scientific Workshop on Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling the changes in Ecosystems. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, 17-19 November, 2008.
    - Revealing tourists’ preferences for biodiversity: A choice experiment in Crimea
    - Valuation of natural marine ecosystems: An economic perspective.

  • Invited Speaker, The Mediterranean Science Commission (CIESM - http://www.ciesm.org) Workshop on 'Economic Valuation of Natural Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems', Bodrum, Turkey, 22 - 25 October, 2008.

  • Invited Speaker, AQUASTRESS Meeting, Nauplio, Greece, 12-15 February, 2007.

  • European Workshop on Southern European Seas: Assessing and Modelling Ecosystem Changes Workshop, Anavissos, Greece, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, 29 Noember-1 December, 2006.

  • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Advanced Research Workshop (ARW)
    - Wastewater Reuse - Risk Assessment Decision-Making and Environmental Security. (Invited Speaker), Instanbul, Turkey, October 12-16, 2006.

  • Invited Speaker, AQUASTRESS Meeting, Brussels, 28-30 June, 2006.

  • Invited Speaker, AQUASTRESS Meeting, Cyprus, 26-27 June, 2006.

  • Invited Speaker, IASON (International Action for Sustainability of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment) Workshop, Anavissos, Greece, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, February 5th, 2006.
    - The Economic Valuation of Marine Resources: Methods and techniques.

  • Invited Speaker, EROLIMPACS Workshop on Impact Evaluation of Global Change on Freshwater Ecosystems, Athens, September 5-9, 2005.
    - Using a Choice Experiment to Account for Preference Heterogeneity in Wetland Attributes: The case of Cheimaditida wetland in Greece.

  • Invited Speaker, Workshop on ‘Coping with Water Stress in Europe’, University of Hannover, May 24-25, 2005.
    - Economic Valuation Methods for Efficient Water Management.
    - Economic Instruments for Integrated Resource Management in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions.

  • Meeting on ‘The Impact of REACH on the Environment and Human Health’, European Commission, DG Environment, Brussels, September 17th, 2005.
    - The impact of REACH on the environment and human health: The Economic Aspects of the Valuation of the Impact, European Commission, DG Environment.

  • AQUASTRESS: Mitigation of water stress though new approaches integrating management, technical, economic and institutional instruments, FP6 Global change and Ecosystems, EC Contract No 511231, Kick-off meeting, Rome, CNR & Frascati, February 2nd-4th, 2005.

  • IASON: International Action for Sustainability of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Environment, Kick-off meeting, Anavissos, Greece, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, February 5th, 2005.

  • Invited Speaker, OECD Workshop on ‘Evaluating Agri-environmental Policies’, Paris, 6-8, December 2004.

  • Invited Speaker, Joint Workshop on ‘Drought and Water Deficiency: from research to policy making’, organized by the European Commission (DG Research and DG Environment) and France, and supported by the ARID Cluster, Palermo, Sicily, 6-9, October, 2004.
    - Valuing Water in a Watershed in the Absence of Market Prices.

  • Invited Speaker, Science for Sustainable Marine Bioresources- Open Meeting 2 September 2004, Edinburgh.

  • World Bank GW-MATE six month progress meeting, Washington, 20-23, June, 2004.
    - The Economics of Arsenic Mitigation: A Methodology for Rapid Cost-Benefit Appraisal.

  • Invited Speaker, World Bank Workshop on Groundwater Management, Bangon, 15-17, November, 2004.
    - The Economics of Groundwater Management.

  • Invited Speaker and Working Group Leader in International Workshop on ‘Valuing the Biological Diversity of Crops in a Development Context’ with the support of BIOECON and FAO, March 29 – 30, 2004, Rome, Italy.
    - Econometric Techniques for Valuing Biodiversity.

  • Invited Speaker, International Workshop on ‘Valuing European Wetlands’, March 7-12, Innsbruck, Austria.
    - The Contingent Valuation Methods for Estimating Monetary Values for Marginal Wetlands.
    - The Land Use Allocation Model: Theory and Application to the UK.

  • Invited Speaker in World Bank Workshop on ‘Arsenic Contamination in South Asia and East Asia Regions – Extent and State-of-the-Art Knowledge’, January 2003, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, USA.
    - The Economics of Arsenic Mitigation.

  • Invited Speaker in Stakeholder European Workshop on “Impact Assessment of REACH”, November 21, 2003, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
    - The Social Cost of Chemicals: An Economic Evaluation of the EU Chemicals Directive.

  • Invited Speaker for the 3rd MEDIS European Workshop “Towards Sustainable Water Use on Mediterranean Islands: Addressing Conflicting Demands and Varying Hydrological, Social and Economic Conditions””, October 30-31, 2003, Heraklion, Crete, Greece.
    - Economics of Water in the European Union: Problems, Principles and Policies.
    - ARID Cluster: Results and Future Research Priorities.

  • Invited Speaker for the 3rd WaterStrategyMan European Workshop on “Developing Strategies for Regulating and Managing Water Resources and Demand in Water Deficient Regions”, October 8-10, 2003, Paris, France.
    - ARID Cluster: Results and Future Research Priorities.

  • Invited Speaker for the European Workshop on “Advanced Project Interactions in Catchment Modelling”, September 16-17, 2003, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. http://www.harmoni-ca.info/~pclaeys/WorkDirHarmoniCA/WSCatchMod.html
    - Integrated Water Management in Arid European Regions: Synergies among European Projects.

  • Invited Speaker for SUSTAINIS European Commission Advanced Training Course on ‘Sustainable Use of Water on Mediterranean Islands: Conditions, Obstacles and Perspectives”, 27th September - 12th October 2003, Ayia Napa, Cyprus.
    - “Design and Implementation of an Integrated Water Management Approach”.

  • Invited Speaker in ‘Groundwater Management for Bank Operations Training Course’, September 3-5, 2003, World Bank Headquarters, Washington, USA.
    “The Economics of Groundwater Management”.

  • Fourth BIOECON European Workshop on The Economics of Biodiversity and Conservation, August 28-29, 2003, Venice, Italy. http:/www.feem.it/bioecon
    “Multi-Output Distance Function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery”.

  • Invited Speaker for the European Workshop on “Vulnerability of European Ecosystems Facing Increasing Drought Risk”, April 10-12, 2003, Samos, Greece. http://www.pik-potsdam.de/avec/avec_droughts.html Relevant report can be downloaded from: http://www.pik-potsdam.de/avec/figures/samos
    - Irrigation Water Management Under Risk: An Application to Cypriot Agriculture”.

  • Invited Speaker for the Seminar on The Economics of Fisheries, Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, February 2003, London, UK.
    - Multi-Output Distance Function for the North Sea Beam Trawl Fishery.

  • ‘From Economic Research to Development Policy’, December 11, 2003; organized by DFID (Department for International Development) and CEPR (Center for Economic Policy).

  • GREENPEACE Business Lecture with Margot Wallstrom, EU Environment Commissioner: “The New EU Environment Agenda: Chemical Legislation and Beyond”, Monday, 13 October 2003, Royal Society of Arts, London WC2. (I received a special invitation for this lecture as the EU Commissioner referred in his speech to the results of my research project on
    ‘The Social Cost of Chemicals: An Economic Evaluation of the EU Chemicals Directive’)

  • European Workshop “Aquallibrium: European Water Management between Regulation an d Competition”, November 2002, Berlin, Germany.
    - An overview on the current debate and analysis of the various models of involvement and co-operation between the public and the private sector in the Republic of Ireland.

  • Invited Speaker for 2nd MEDIS European Workshop “Towards Sustainable Water Use on Mediterranean Islands: Addressing Conflicting Demands and Varying Hydrological, Social and Economic Conditions”, October 2002, Majorca, Spain.
    - Introducing the ARID Cluster: Strengthening complementarity and exploitation of results of related RTD projects dealing with water resources use and management in arid and semi-arid regions.

  • Invited speaker for 2nd AQUADAPT European Workshop “Strategic Tools to Support Adaptive, Integrated Water Resource Management Under Changing Utilisation Conditions at Catchment Level: A Co-Evolutionary Approach”, October 2002, Montpellier, France.
    - Introducing the ARID Cluster: Strengthening complementarity and exploitation of results of related RTD projects dealing with water resources use and management in arid and semi-arid regions.

  • The ARID Cluster European Workshop, July 9th 2002, Hermoupolis, Syros, Greece.
    - Integrating the Arid Cluster. The new Accompanying Measures Project, Objectives and actions in the project; Implications of the Accompanying Measures activities on the Arid Cluster.

  • Invited Speaker for European Workshop on Externalities: Building up the RED Database for Sustainable Development Strategy Support, 17th June 2002, European Commission – Belliard 100, SDR 0/0, Brussels, Belgium.
    - An Economic Methodology Towards Full-Cost Recovery: Water.

  • Invited Speaker for the Seminar on Water Management, December 2001, European Institute of Public Administration, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
    - Towards an Integrated Water Management in Cyprus: Methodology and Application.

  • Invited Speaker for the European Workshop on “Water Management and the European Union”, October 2001, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium.
    - Different Methodologies to Measuring Water Scarcity.

  • European Workshop on Integrated Water Management, March 2000, Institute for Transnational Legal Research, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
    - Hedonic Price Analysis and Selectivity: Theory and Application to Groundwater as Productive Input.

  • Workshop on “Integrated Water Management”, July 1999, Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
    - The Potential for Groundwater Management: Gisser-Sanchez's Result Reconsidered.
    - Dynamic Adaptation to Resource Depletion with Backstop Technology: A Partial Resolution of the Gisser-Sanchez Effect.


    • Seminar Presentations, Invited by:

  • London School of Economics, UK, 2013.

  • Department of Economics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK, 2012.

  • The Cyprus Institute, The Energy, Environment and Water Research Center (EEWRC), 2010.

  • Australian Agricultural and Natural Resources Economics Society, 2008.

  • Centre of Planning and Economic Research, Athens, Greece, 2005.

  • Helsinki Environmental Economics Seminar Series, Joint Series of All Universities and Institutes located in Helsinki, 2004.

  • University of Oxford, Department of Economics, Environmental Economics Seminar Series, 2003.

  • Imperial College London, Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Departmental Seminar Series, 2003.

  • University of Southampton, Department of Economics, Econometrics Seminar Series, 2003. University of Toulouse, French National Institute for Research in Agricultural Economics (INRA), Departmental Seminar Series, 2003.

  • University of Reading, Department of Agricultural and Food Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2003.

  • University of California at Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2002.

  • Cyprus International Institute of Management, Institute Seminar Series, 2002.

  • Athens University of Economics and Business, Department of Economics and Department of International and European Economics Studies, Joint Economics Seminar Series, 2002 and 2004.

  • University College London, Department of Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics Seminar Series, 2001, 2004, 2005.

  • University of Oxford, Department of Economics, Economics Seminar Series, 2001.

  • University of Cambridge, Department of Land Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2000.

  • University of Cambridge, Department of Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2000.

  • University of Reading, Department of Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.

  • University of Cyprus, Department of Economics, Departmental Seminar Series, 2000.

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