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Session

Egg-Timer: Environmental Governance and Institutions
Location: D-112
Session Chair: Sarah Jacobson, Williams College

Presentation 1

Degree of Global Professional Consensus in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics

Lea-Rachel Kosnik¹, Simanti Banerjee²

1: University of Missouri-St. Louis, United States of America; 2: University of Nebraska-Lincoln, United States of America

In 2025, an international survey of environmental and natural resource economists was conducted to assess the degree of professional consensus across the global community. The survey was distributed to members of five major professional associations: the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE), the Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AAERE), the African Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AFAERE), the Latin American Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (LAERE), and the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES). The survey itself borrowed from, and expanded upon, prior surveys given to members of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) in 2012 and in 2023. By building off of the earlier AERE surveys, this study can compare levels of consensus around important environmental and natural resource issues across a truly global platform. The results reveal a strong global consensus among environmental and natural resource economists on many issues (73% of questions). However, regional variation exists, on issues ranging from environmental regulation and the role of taxes, to the relative importance of specific local issues including biodiversity and the conservation of fish and wildlife habitat.