Dec. 5 (10:00-11:00) room C.714
Christopher Stapenhurst (BME QSMS)
Optimal biodiversity conservation schemes
Biodiversity schemes aim to incentivise farmers to undertake costly conservation actions. “Payments by results” schemes reward farmers according to observed species on their land. But doing so creates externalities since the actions of one farmer affect species on her neighbour’s land. Forming a coalition can both help farmers to internalise these externalities and to share risk. To predict the strategic responses of farmers, we study (i) the stability of coalitions formed on a network, and (ii) the impact of risk aversion on coalitional stability.
The talk is based on joint work with Martin Juhász, Boldizsár Nagy, and Kristóf Talpai.