Environmental and Resource Economics

This special issue will compile novel evidence of spatial trade-offs related to the deployment of renewable energy sources and the performance of spatial governance approaches.

This special issue will consist of papers that address these limitations using explicit models of human behavior and rigorous quantitative methods in order to strengthen the evidence base on the relationship between ecosystem change and human health.

The goal of the special issue is to rigorously analyse and assess the Dasgupta Review and provide some first extensions. We want to help make the topic of biodiversity a mainstream issue for environmental economists and we believe that our special issue will play a fundamental role there. The special issue will consist of two parts – the first part is by invitation only and is a transdisciplinary one where researchers from both the environmental sciences, as well as economists, analyse, discuss and assess the Dasgupta Review. The second part provides extensions of the Dasgupta Review and further develops some of the ideas and problems that are brought to light in the review itself.   

The Special Issue seeks to publish novel research and reflect the most recent advances on the latest contributions on the above areas, covering new modeling techniques and formulations, as well as innovative case studies. Contributions will be selected through a refereeing process consistent with the standard reviewing process of the Environmental and Resource Economics journal. Only original contributions of the highest quality will be included. This Special Issue should be of benefit to policy-makers and researchers worldwide, wherever there is a need to overcome challenges, design policy options, strive for new technological breakthroughs and seek investment opportunities towards a new era of energy transition.