NatuRE Policy Lab

Xiurou Wu updated her research on addressing ecosystem service trade-offs in China's Lake Poyang. This research proposes a model of ecosystem service management that takes into account the conflict between fisheries operations and conservation of endangered and threatened waterfowl, specifically Siberian Cranes. The model is calibrated to fit the example of China’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Poyang, the wintering ground for the last surviving population of Siberian Cranes.

Xiurou Wu and Pierce Donovan presented their research on "modeling ecosystem service conflicts in China’s Lake Poyang" and "encouraging habitat defragmentation across a privately-owned landscape" at BIOECON XXII.

Sea Grant and NOAA Fisheries recently announced the 2021 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)-Sea Grant Joint Fellowship recipients. Thomas (TJ) Anderson has been awarded a marine resource economics fellowship.

François Castonguay presented his research on ecological interventions on environmentally transmitted diseases (ETD). This is joint work with Jim Sanchirico and Chris Hoover (UCSF). Ecological interventions are nonpharmaceutical actions that individuals and communities can take to reduce disease transmission by considering the interactions among the different disease-carrying organisms and their environment.

Pierce Donovan has been accepted as a mentee in the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) Scholars Program. This new mentoring program aims to engage a diverse group of early-career environmental and natural resource economists in AERE while providing invaluable career guidance, skill development, and networking opportunities.