The UK Network of Environmental Economists
The UK Network of Environmental Economists aims to bring together environmental economists from academia, consultancy and public and private sectors to foster closer relationships, follow recent developments and share experience.
UKNEE is managed by eftec (Economics for the Environment Consultancy) and supported by Defra (UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs), the Environment Agency for England and Wales and eftec.
eftec, the leading environmental economics consultancy in the UK, provides economic analysis for sound, effective and sustainable environmental policy and management.
Since 1992, we have been collaborating with environmental scientists, engineers and market researchers to:
- generate and interpret qualitative and quantitative evidence on the benefits provided by the environment and cultural heritage, and on the costs of their degradation such as air and water pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change, coastal erosion, and others
- conduct cost benefit and cost effectiveness analyses that reflect social preferences for environmental policies, major infrastructure projects, flood prevention, and remediation of contaminated land and groundwater among others
- design and review green taxes, tradable permits and voluntary agreements in waste management, agriculture, and in the control of air and water pollution, and
- provide training in all aspects of environmental economics.
In 2004, we set up the UK Network of Environmental Economists (UKNEE), which holds regular seminars and the annual conference on applied environmental economics, envecon, with growing attendance from the UK and around the world.
Case Study B:
The Midlands Energy Graduate School (MEGS)
The Midlands Energy Graduate School (MEGS) is an exciting new collaboration between the University of Birmingham, Loughborough University and University of Nottingham. Combining the capabilities of three of the leading universities in the UK for energy related research and teaching, MEGS will help meet the growing demand in the UK for more highly trained low carbon technologies researchers. MEGS will achieve this through enhancing the postgraduate training programme for energy researchers by delivering a mix of both specialist knowledge and multidisciplinary training.
The Midlands Energy Consortium comprises the University of Birmingham, Loughborough University and the University of Nottingham. It is supported by the regional development agencies Advantage West Midlands and East Midlands Development Agency.
The Midlands Energy Consortium is honoured to host the new Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) - a public-private partnership established to speed up the deployment of new low-carbon energy technologies in support of the UK's energy and climate change goals.
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