Costs and Impacts of Environmental Crime
EFFACE Meeting
18 June 2015, Catania
DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
CORSO ITALIA NO. 55
95128 CATANIA
PROGRAMME
10.00
Welcome & introduction of workshop participants
Giuseppe Di Vita – University of Catania
10.15
Presentation on WP3 activity
Andrew Farmer -Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP)
10.45
Economic Analysis of Waste Crime – How Costly are Waste Crimes?
“The Economic Costs of Waste Crime”
Timo Goeschl – University of Heidelberg, Chair of Environmental
Economics, Alfred-Weber-Institut for Economics
11.15
Coffee break
11.30
Discussion
12.00
Methodological Issue: Evaluating the Environmental Costs
"Equivalency Methods for Assessing Environmental Damage".
Giovanni Signorello – University of Catania
12.30
Discussion
13.00
Lunch
15.00
Methodological Issue: Evaluating the Environmental Costs of Illegal
Disposal
“Estimation of environmental damages from illegal waste disposal”
Alessio D’Amato - “Tor Vergata” University Rome
15,30
The Health Impact of Illegal Waste Disposal
“Health impact of environmental crimes“
Antonella Agodi – University of Catania
16.00
Discussion
16.30
Coffee break
17.00
Roundtable on: The Economic Analysis of Environmental Crimes:
Shortcomings and Solutions. Antonella Agodi, Alessio D’Amato
Giuseppe Di Vita, Timo Goeschl, Filippo Reganati and Giovanni
Signorello.
The workshop is part of the research project “EU Action to Fight Environmental Crime” (EFFACE,
www.efface.eu). EFFACE is funded under the 7th Research Framework Programme of the European Union.