Dsolve representert på Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics (NAERE) Workshop
2025 Nordic Annual Environmental and Resource Economics (NAERE) Workshop fant sted 25.–26. juni 2025 ved Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU). Dette årlige arrangementet samler forskere og doktorgradsstudenter fra de nordiske landene for å diskutere temaer innen miljø- og ressursøkonomi. Gjennom årene har konferansen utvidet seg til å tiltrekke seg deltakere fra hele verden, med tidligere utgaver arrangert i Bergen, København og Uppsala. NAERE-konferansen fungerer som en utmerket arena for kunnskapsdeling, samarbeid og utforskning av den nyeste utviklingene innen feltet.
Følgende presentasjoner ble holdt av PhD studentene Huu-Luat Do og Erik Johannesen Bakke:
"The Norwegian Traffic Light System’s Impact on Non-Point Source Pollution" – Erik Johannesen Bakke
Summary: Norwegian aquaculture management and non-point source pollution written together with his supervisors, Thuy Thi Thanh Pham and Claire W. Armstrong. The paper examines the effect of the Norwegian traffic light system, an ambient regulation scheme using the mortality of wild salmon smolts as an environmental indicator, combined with a collective penalty-reward incentive system to regulate non-point source pollution of salmon lice from Norwegian ocean farms. The result of the paper indicates that an ambient regulation scheme has the potential to be effective when regulating non-point source pollution. However, in the traffic light system systems case, there are several limiting factors that weakens the regulation systems effect such as a weak penalty-reward incentive scheme, a limited perceived relationship between individual pollution and the environmental indicator, as well as the risk of moral hazard. The results from studying the Norwegian traffic light system provide an example of what works, and what does not, if we should consider a future regulation scheme regarding non-point source pollution of plastics and microplastics.
"Refundable Deposits and the Adoption of Biodegradable Fishing Gear: An Experimental Investigation" – Huu-Luat Do
Summary: The research, in collaboration with co-authors from the University of Wyoming and Appalachian State University, examined how deposit-refund systems, applied to biodegradable fishing gear, influence voluntary adoption. A lab experiment simulating heterogeneous fishers showed that unequal deposits significantly increase compliance with adoption, but stronger enforcement mechanisms reduce participation and agreement size for adoption purposes. This highlights the trade-off between participation and enforcement—stronger enforcement mechanisms reduce agreement size but improve adoption.
