The Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics

Initiated in 1993, a key purpose is to allow PhD students to present their work and interact with a number of leading researchers in the field. The conference is  held at Ulvön (the Wolf Island) a small, attractive old fishing hamlet located along the high coast, about 500 km north of Stockholm.

The conference has enjoyed support from the Beijer Institute, the Nordic Council, Swedish Council for Agricultural and Forestry Research, SLU-Umeå, University of Umeå

The conference attracts senior economists from all over the world. Keynote speakers include:

Geir Asheim, University of Oslo 
Peter Berck, UC Berkeley 
Ted Bergstrom, UC Santa Barbara 
Peter Bohm, Stockholm University 
Dan Bromley, University of Wisconsin, Madison 
Gardner Brown, University of Washington 
Yuri Belyaev, SLU-Umeå 
Richard Carson, University of San Diego 
Graciela Chichilnisky, Columbia University 
Maureen Cropper, The World Bank 
Robert Deacon, UC Santa Barbara. 
Shawna Grosskopf, Oregon University 
Larry Goulder, Stanford University 
Michael Hanemann, UC Berkeley 
Nick Hanley, University of Stirling 
Glenn W. Harrison, University of South Carolina 
Geoffrey Heal, Columbia University 
Kaj Nyström, University of Umeå 
Alan Randall, Ohio State University 
Bo Ranneby, SLU-Umeå 
Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming 
David Starrett, Stanford University 
Steve Polasky, Oregon University 
Paul Portney, RFF 
Thomas Rutherford, University of Colorado 
Agnar Sandmo, University of Bergen 
Jeffrey Vincent, Harvard University 
Martin Weitzman, Harvard University 
Martin Whitby, University of Newcastle 
Jim Wilen, UC Davis 
Hirofumo Uzawa, Japan Development Bank 
Hans Wallin, University of Umeå