2010 World Conference on Natural Resource Modeling

Helsinki, Finland, from June 16 to June 19, 2010

Scientific Program

The following information is available in .pdf format here

Conference sessions will be held at the Swedish-Finnish Cultural Centre Hanasaari.

Wednesday June 16th, 2010

19:00 - 21:00

Registration, reception at Hanasaari

Thursday June 17th, 2010

8:00 - 8:30

Registration

8:30 - 8:45

Welcome and Introduction

8:45 - 10:00

Keynote lecture 1: Ilkka Hanski, University of Helsinki

Habitat fragmentation: theory of biological consequences and management applications

10:00 - 10:20

Refreshments

10:20 - 12:00

Peter WJ Baxter, Grzegorz Mikusiński & Hugh P Possingham: Optimising forest management for White-backed Woodpecker conservation in Sweden

Maija Holma, Soile Kulmala & Marko Lindroos: Optimal management of conflicting species: Grey Seal (Halichoerus grypus) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) in the Baltic Sea

Diwakar Poudel: Economics of De facto Conservation of Agrobiodiversity on farm and Future Optimization in Conservation

Antti Miettinen, Kari Hyytiäinen & Antti Mäkinen: Should biodiversity zones be established on arable land or in forests abutting to fields when recreating habitats for pollinators?

12:00 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 14:30

Keynote lecture 2: James N Sanchirico, University of California

Role of bioeconomic modeling in the design and analysis of ecosystem based management policies

14.30 - 14:50

Refreshments

14:50 - 17:30

Xiaozi Liu & Mikko Heino: Global Warming and International Fishery Management: Does Anticipation of Temperature Change Matter?

Maja Schlüter & Alessandro Tavoni: Collective resource management in a changing world – sustainable use of a common pool resource subject to environmental and social change

Sepul Barua, Jussi Uusivuori and Jari Kuuluvainen: Optimal national policies for tropical forest resources under carbon credit markets

Andrew L. Zaeske: Excess Liquidity? A Macroeconomic Look at the Efficiency of Water Use in the U.S.

Nils-Arne Ekerhovd: Sharing the North-East Arctic Cod under changing climate conditions

Kirill Borissov & Alexander Surkov: Common and private ownership of exhaustible resources: theoretical implications for economic growth

18:00 -

Dinner at Hanasaari

Friday June 18th, 2010

8:30 - 9:30

Keynote lecture 3: Annikki Mäkelä, University of Helsinki

An ecological approach to management-oriented growth models

9:30 - 9:50

Refreshments

9:50 - 12:20

Bernard R. Parresol & Teresa J.F. Fonseca: Recovering Parameters of Johnson’s Bivariate SBB Distribution for Tree Diameters and Heights

Jenni Miettinen, Markku Ollikainen, Leena Finér, Harri Koivusalo, Ari Lauren & Lauri Valsta: Diffuse load abatement and biodiversity benefits in even-aged forestry: optimal rotation length and buffer zone dimension

F. H. Koch & W. D. Smith: Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Xyleborus glabratus (Coleoptera: Circulionidae: Scolytinae) Invasion in Eastern U.S. Forests

Sami Niinimäki & Olli Tahvonen: Bioeconomics of optimal Norway spruce management

Bernard R. Parresol: Developing Custom Fire Behavior Fuel Models from Inventory Data

Yulia Pavlova: Crop Rotation in Finland: Game-Theoretic Approach

12:20 - 13:30

Lunch

13:30 - 15:20

Leif Kristoffer Sandal: Bioeconomic Multispecies Analysis of Marine Ecosystems (BMAME)

Nguyen Viet Thanh & Niels Vestergaard: Toward an ecological economic model of fisheries: a case study of nutrient enrichment

Fabian Zimmermann, Stein Ivar Steinshamn & Mikko Heino: Establishing an optimal harvest feedback rule for fish stocks under consideration of size-dependent effects

Hao Ye, Keith R. Criddle & George Sugihara: Comprehensive Incentives for Reducing Chinook Salmon Bycatch in the Bering Sea Pollock Fleet: Individual Tradable Encounter Credits

15:30 - 18:30

Marine and cultural field trip

19:00 - 21:00

Conference Dinner, Restaurant Valhalla, Suomenlinna

21:30

Return to Hanasaari

Saturday June 19th, 2010

8:30 - 10:20

Catherine A. Roberts: New Results in Anomalous Diffusion

Harry Gorfine: Demystifying modelling for stakeholders is no masquerade

Ayesha Tulloch, Hugh P. Possingham & Kerrie Wilson: Using time series modelling of population change for adaptive management

Saeed Bayazidi & Olli Tahvonen: Optimal forest rotation and stochastic rate of interest

10:20 - 10:40

Refreshments

10:40 - 11:10

NRM Journal Session

11:10 - 11:40

Awards Program, End of Meeting

11:40 - 12:40

Lunch

13:00 - 13:30

RMA Business meeting