The uncertainties and risks (environmental and health) of the ecological transition
This workshop aims, in the first instance, to bring together national and international specialists in the economics of risk and uncertainty applied to the environment and health. All methods used in economics will be presented (theory, empirical and experimental studies). Secondly, it seeks to disseminate and exchange with other researchers from different fields interested in the subject. It will be open to students, doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and other scientists from all disciplines. It will take place during one day in April 2023 on the Agro Campus (Palaiseau).
Currently, it is important to analyze the impacts of environmental risks (risk of ecosystem collapse, risk of extreme events such as floods, drought) and health risks (pandemic) in order to better recommend public decision makers in their prevention policies. For example, the COVID-19 pandemic has shown us the link between health and environment by highlighting the fact that the loss of biodiversity increases the risk of emergence of pathogens with the capacity to spread and cause a pandemic. Taking this link into account requires a deep understanding of environmental and health risks that will help our society, all generations included, to understand the cost of the ecological transition.
Scientific studies suggest that the frequency and consequences of environmental and health risks will increase1. Economists, as well as other social scientists, are interested in the impacts that these risks cause on Society. In a proactive manner, economists, specifically, must offer insights before these events occur in order to minimize the economic and social costs.
The architecture of a public policy aimed at protecting citizens from these risks necessarily requires a deep analysis answering the following questions: How do individuals change their consumption and production behavior in the face of risk? What are their perceptions of risk? How do issues related to the ecological transition impact these risks, and vice versa? These different questions require the gathering of economists but also researchers from other disciplines interested in this issue.
Leaders: Can Mavi and Caroline Orset from the PSAE laboratory
Partners in the University of Paris-Saclay: Graduate Schools Biosphera and Economie & Management; AgroParisTech...
Reference: (1) Tan-Soo et al. 20141, Madhav et al. 20172