Mission and Activities

AIMS

The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE) is an international scientific association whose aims are:

• to contribute to the development and application of environmental, climate and resource economics as a science in Europe;
• to encourage and improve collaboration and communication between scholars, researchers, policymakers, students in environmental, climate and resource economics in different European countries;
• to develop and encourage the cooperation across universities and research institutions in Europe.

HISTORY

Founded in 1990, EAERE has approximately 1,300 members in over 70 countries from Europe and beyond, from academic and research institutions, international organisations, the public sector, and the business world. Membership is open to individuals who by their profession, training and/or function are involved in environmental, climate and resource economics as a science, and to institutions operating in fields connected with the aims of the Association.

EAERE activities started with the First Annual Conference held at the University of Venice, Italy in April 1990. More than two hundred scholars from Europe and North-America took part in this event. Following the success of the meeting and the enthusiasm of the participants, the organizers decided to take formal steps to establish an association. During the Second Annual Conference in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1991 candidates for the Presidency and the Council were announced. After an election by the Association members, the first Council took office in January 1992.

In May 1992, the legal seat of EAERE was established in Siegen, Germany. In May 2006, the legal seat of EAERE was transferred to Venice, Italy, and the Association and its Statutes are governed by Italian law.

JOURNALS

EAERE has two official Journals: Environmental and Resource Economics (ERE) and Review of Environmental Economics and Policy (REEP).

ANNUAL CONFERENCE

Each summer, EAERE organises its Annual Conference, an invaluable opportunity for meeting, exchanging and debating current topics in environmental, climate and resource economics. With approximately 700 individual participants attending from all over the world, international researchers, scholars, economists and students convene to the EAERE Annual Conferences in the spirit of economic discovery, research, analysis and collaboration. Conferences are held in European countries and unite European participants together with their national and international neighbours. Every four years since 1998, EAERE’s Annual Conference is held within the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, an international event organised withint the umbrella of the World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations (WCEREA).

SCHOLARS

EAERE offers scholars, researchers and students a rich educational outreach portfolio comprised of its annual Summer and Winter Schools. The broader objective of this series of events is to provide advanced training for young researchers from all over Europe and beyond on environmental, climate and resource economics.

POLICY OUTREACH COMMITTEE

The EAERE Policy Outreach Committee (POC) was established in year 2018, with the main objective of making the Association more influential in the EU policy arena.
The Committee aims at (1) designing and propose new activities and actions that the Association can implement; (2) becoming a relevant stakeholder for EU and international organisations; (3) being invited to provide advice on policy decisions and research programs; (4) setting a stage for a more integrated dialogue between academia and policy world; (5) supporting policy institutions in developing countries.
Senior and experienced EAERE members, with a strong reputation in the policy arena and capable of designing successful actions, are members of this Committee.

OTHER EAERE COMMITTEES

In 2022 EAERE has launched the EAERE Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Initiative, to initiate a pathway leading to a common understanding on how to make progress in diversity, equity and inclusion issues, and support initiatives aiming to eliminate impediments to create an inclusive environment in the economic profession. This initiative will promote fora for discussions, informing and involving people, showcase data, mapping the main problems and identify goals with the final ambition of possibly proposing solutions.

EAERE works towards organizing hybrid conferences, which aim at greater inclusiveness and smaller environmental footprint. In Autumn 2022 a Committee on EAERE Conference and events Sustainability, having the mandate to discuss issues related to the sustainability of the EAERE Annual Conferences, such as the management of the conference logistics, the design of incentives to good sustainability behaviour by participants, the criteria for selecting the conference organiser and location, etc.

EAERE is a member of the World Council of Environmental and Resource Economists Associations (WCEREA), a coordinating organization whose members are AAERE, AERE, EAERE and AFAERE. LAERE participates at WCEREA as a partner. WCEREA coordinates the joint activities of the member associations and fosters cooperation among environmental economists worldwide. One of the main tasks of WCEREA is to coordinate the organization of the World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE).