SEMINAR: "Social Demand for the Aesthetic Externality of Rural Landscape: Monetary and non-monetary Valuation for Sustainable Agri-environmental Policies Design in Mediterranean Rural Areas" With Samir Sayadi

Samir Sayadi is a Researcher in the Institute of Agricultural Research and Training (IFAPA). He earned a degree in Agricultural Engineer, a Master of Science and D.S.P.U in Marketing of Agricultural and Food Products, a Master in Rural Development and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics.

The seminar will be focused on the importance of the "valuation of natural resources and environment externalities for the design of sustainable rural/agricultural policies". He will explain the concept of joint production in agriculture and its multifunctionality role in rural territory and society, public and private goods (market and non-market goods) of economic/agricultural activities, the concept of externality, the difference between the price and the value; different values of natural resources or public goods (productive, value and non-value use, legacy value, option value, conservation, etc.); methods of valuation, etc. 

After that, the main time will be focused to explain some practical and empirical cases, based on our previous studies on the valuation of agricultural/rural landscape, to show how we can valuate, using some methods of valuations as the Conjoint Analysis and Contingent Valuation, to estimate the aesthetic value (monetary and non-monetary of mountainous agricultural landscape), according to social demands.

The seminar will be taught in the classroom E28 on the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales on February 17th from 12:30 to 14:30.

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Remind the important deadline for Master Dissertation that you need to be aware. You must send an email to mastereconomics@ugr.es with a carbon copy (“CC”) to the supervisor before February 10th 2017.

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Attaching the following information:

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·         Selected supervisor

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Important:

If you don't have a supervisor yet, indicate it in the email. We will send you a list of possible tutors available for the TFM. 

For the students of the double Master ICCP Economics who have chosen to make the TFM in the extraordinary call, it is not necessary to indicate the tutor in this email, but it is important to inform us that you want to go for the extraordinary call.

SEMINAR: "Flexibility, Resilience & Impact Across the Sectors" With Eric Martin  

Eric Martin is an Associate Professor of Management in the Managing for Sustainability Program at Bucknell University. He earned a bachelor's degree in Environmental Science from the University of Vermont, a master's degree in Public Administration from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy from the State University of New York at Albany. 

Martin's work focuses on managing large scale systems for change and development. He works at the intersection of the three sectors (public, private and nonprofit) to find long-term sustainable change orientations for communities. 

He discussed how to conceptualize concepts as strategic flexibility, sustainability, failing fast and building resilience  in terms of more basic organizational and interorganizational change. He also talked about relationships between the sectors and ways to create shared value and achieve collective impact that benefit multiple stakeholders. The most important part of the seminar was the application of the concepts in a workshop done by the students coached by Eric Martin. 

The seminar was taught in the classroom E09 on the Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales on January 27th at 12:30.