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Conservation Asia Conference 2016

The joint SCB and ATBC Conservation Asia conference was held in Singapore from June 29-July 2, 2016. The BioEcon lab held three different symposium throughout the conference with great success!

Francesca and Le hosted ‘Ecosystem Services and Market-Based Conservation: Challenges for the Tropics’.

Will and Yuchen hosted ‘Integrated Approaches to Reconcile Biodiversity and Land Use Change’.

Roman co-hosted with Richard Corlett (XTBG) on ‘Reducing the Biodiversity Impacts of Infrastructure Development in the Tropics’.

Amy presenting

Will presenting

Winnie presenting her FYP

Yuchen presenting

Francesca and Le present at Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conferecence

November 15, 2015 / dbspac / 0 Comments

Two members of our lab, Francesca and Le, attended the 8th Ecosystem Services Partnership World Conference at Stellenbosch, South Africa in November 2015. Francesca gave 2 talks on her PhD work: “Identifying the factors associated with equity in PES schemes” and “Valuing ES using life-years instead of dollars”. Le gave the talk on “Economic valuation of ES fails to capture biodiversity value of tropical forests”

Protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD)

October 25, 2015 / dbspac / 0 Comments

Our research on protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement (PADDD) is featured in sciencedaily, science codex, phys.org, and Mongabay!

Pest risk in Southeast Asia

July 14, 2015 / dbspac / 0 Comments

Our research on pest risk analysis in Southeast Asia has been accepted for publication in Risk Analysis: An International Journal! The article is called “A regional decision support scheme for pest risk analysis in Southeast Asia”. See our list of publications

Do Protected Areas Stop Deforestation?

March 25, 2015 / dbspac / 0 Comments

Our research on deforestation and protected area effectiveness in Indonesia published in Global Environmental Change was featured in Phys.org, ScienceDaily, NewsDesk, Today

Biodiversity as an economic value

February 10, 2015 / dbspac / 0 Comments

Our research on valuation of ecosystem services published in Biological Conservation has been featured by CIFOR Forest News and Mongabay

EME Lab at ATBC Asia-Pacific Chapter at Banda Aceh

March 30, 2013 / dbspac / 0 Comments

3 EME Lab members presented at the Meeting: Roman with “Loss of ecosystem services through deforestation and trade-offs with agriculture”, Yi Hui with “Spatial correlates of human-tiger conflict in Hunchun, China”, and Dawn with “Effects of overgrazing and climate change on grassland sustainability in Chang Tang, Tibetan plateau, China”.

Dawn and Yi Hui presenting at the meeting

(E-SEAL) Environmental Sustainability and Economics Analytical Lab

Bioeconomic modeling for a sustainable future