Presentations (Selected Presentations since 2000)

Barbier, E.B. "Environmental Health Risks, Welfare and GDP." Paper presented at the Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, Seattle, WA 30 June-2 July 2024.

Barbier, E.B. "An Economic Perspective on Planetary Boundaries." Paper presented at the 27th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 5-7 June 2024.

Barbier, E.B. "Convergence and Natural Capital." Paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Summer Conference, Grand Hyatt Washington, Washington, D.C., 29-31 May 2024.

Barbier, E.B. "Greenness and Democracy." Invited Session Speaker, 5th International Symposium, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 3 April 2024.

Barbier, E.B. "Green Net Domestic Product." Invited Speaker, Workshop on Natural Capital Measurement and Modelling, European Commission, Brussels, 30 November-1 December 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet: What Can Governments, Businesses and Consumers Do?" Invited Keynote, Balanced Economy Forum: “Elephant in the Room”. NEXPO, Tallinn, Estonia 17 November 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Climate Change and Migration." Panel Speaker, ISAAC of Northern Colorado, Fort Collins, CO 12 November 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Policies for Climate-Smart Agriculture for Sustainable Rural Development." Keynote Speech, Conference on "Climate-Smart Agriculture: Adoption, Impacts, and Implications for Sustainable Development", Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 10-11 October 2023

Barbier, E.B. "Economics and Planetary Boundaries." Opening Talk, International Workshop on Integrating Planetary Boundaries in Economic and Social Science Analysis. University of Copenhagen, 15-16 September 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet." Opening Keynote, Global Environmental Markets and Finance Summit, Denver, CO, 19-21 July 2023

Barbier, E.B. "Greening the G7 Through a More Inclusive Climate Club." Keynote Presentation, Think7 Japan Summit, Tokyo Japan, 27-28 April 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet: The Biodiversity Challenge." 36th Annual Cornelson Lecture, Department of Economics, Davidson College, Davidson, NC, 17 April 2023.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics, Natural Resource Scarcity and Biodiversity: Where Do We Go From Here?" Environmental Economics Seminar, Oxford University, Oxford, UK 6 March 2023

Barbier, E.B. "Environmental Health Risks, Welfare and GDP." Seminar, Yale School of the Environment, Yale University, New Haven, CT. November 2, 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Green Transformation in Emerging Market and Developing Countries." Plenary Address, Bank Indonesia International Seminar 2022 Green Development Strategy for the New Kalimantan", Kalimantan, Indonesia, 19 August 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Overcoming Digital Poverty Traps in Rural Asia." Keynote Address. Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Conference on Rural and Agricultural Development in the Digital Age, ADBI, Tokyo, 8, 9, 10 and 12 August 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Economic Valuation of NbS for Improved Policies and Investments." Panel Presentation. NbS Conference 2022. Oxford University, Oxford, UK, July 5-7, 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "The Economics and Financing of Nature-Based Solutions: Challenges and Opportunities." Keynote Address. NbS Conference 2022. Oxford University, Oxford, UK, July 5-7, 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Reflections on Resources and Their Substitutes from the Perspective of Scarcity and Frontiers throughout World History." Invited Address. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, June 8-9, 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Carbon Pricing and the Climate Transition." Panel Presentation. Climate Transition Dialogue. Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO June 6-7, 2022 Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet: The Climate Challenge." Joint IMF-World Bank Seminar Series on Climate Macroeconomics. International Monetary Fund and World Bank, Washington, DC, 8 April 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "On the Road to Stockholm +50: Shifting to Circular Economies with Forests." Panel Member. Global Forest Summit 2022, Brussels, Belgium, 24 March 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet." Public Talk. Department of Economics and School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, US. 10 March 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "Economic Views on Natural Resource Scarcity: Where Do We Go From Here?" Invited AERE Fellows Talk, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists’ Winter Meeting, 10 January 2022.

Barbier, E.B. "The Policy Challenges of Green Rural Transformation for Asia-Pacific Emerging and Developing Economies in a Post-COVID World." Keynote Address, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Conference on Economic Transformation: Pathways to Inclusive and Sustainable Prosperity in Post-COVID Asia. ADBI, Tokyo, Japan, 17-18 November 2021.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics of Peatlands Conservation, Restoration and Sustainable Management." Public Presentation. Peatlands Economics: The Case for Urgent Action. Peatland Pavilion, UNFCCC COP26, Glasgow, Scotland, 4 November 2021.

Barbier, E.B. "The Economics of Managing Water Crises." Plenary Presentation. Scientific Meeting: Drought Risk in the Anthropocene. Royal Society, London, UK, 19-20 October 2021. https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2021/10/drought-anthropocene/

Barbier, E.B. "Positioning Bangladesh on the Global Map - A Round Table Discussion." Panel Presentation. International Webinar Conference on Bangladesh at 50, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. 7-8 October 2021. https://economics.uq.edu.au/event/session/8653

Barbier, E.B. "Building a Greener Recovery: Implications for Emerging and Developing Countries." Invited Address, ECA Talks, Europe and Central Asia, The World Bank, Washington, DC, 1 July 2021. https://www.worldbank.org/en/events/2021/07/01/building-a-greener-recovery-implications-for-emerging-and-developing-economies

Barbier, E.B. "Habitat Loss and the Risk of Disease Outbreak." Paper presented at the 2021 Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Virtual Conference, 2-4 June 2021.

Barbier, E.B. "Addressing COVID-19 for the Environment: Financing Green Recovery." Panel Presentation. UN Environment Management Group Nexus Dialogues. 4 May 2021. https://unemg.org/addressing-covid-19-for-the-environment/

Barbier, E.B. "Quantifying the Impacts of Recovery Packages on Economic Activity." Panel Presentation. Technical Expert Workshop on Modelling the Impact on Circular Economy and Low Carbon Transitions of the COVID-19 Recovery Packages, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and European Commission, 13-14 April 2021

Barbier, E.B. "The Water Paradox: Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management." Webinar, Koc Üniversitesi Law School and UNESCO, Istanbul, Turkey, 7 January 2021

Barbier, E.B. "The Evolution of Economic Views on Natural Resource Scarcity." Invited Seminar, Department of Economics, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, 6 November 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "How to Make a Post-COVID Green New Deal Work." Online Symposium Fall 2020: Global-Cultural Environmental Justice—Transdisciplinary and Transcultural Perspectives. University of Florida, Gainsville, Florida, 27 October 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "Building Back Better: Financing a Resilient Future." Panel Presentation. Financing a Resilient Future, Global Roundtable, UN Environmental Programme Financial Initiative (UNEP-FI), 13-14 October 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "Potential Impacts of Pandemic Stimulus on the Price of Carbon." Panel Presentation. Pricing Carbon Dialogue, Climate XChange, 28 July 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "Land Expansion and Growth in Low and Middle-Income Countries." Paper presented at the Western Economic Association International Virtual 95th Annual Conference 26-30 June 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "Closing Plenary: Building the Future We Want – Green Recovery from COVID19". Global Landscape Forum Bonn 2020 Digital Conference, 5 June 2020.

Barbier, E.B. "People and Planet: Towards Sustainable Human Development." Panel Presentation Session 1: Conceptual Foundations. Virtual Consultation on the 2020 Human Development Report, United Nations Development Programme and United Nations Environment Programme, 1-4 June 2020.

Barbier, E.B., "Sustainability after COVID-19: Can the global Green New Deal movement survive the pandemic?" Panel Presentation. Green Growth Knowledge Partnership Webinar Series, Geneva, Switzerland, May 12, 2020. https://greengrowthknowledge.org/learning/sustainability-after-covid-19-can-global-green-new-deal-movement-survive-pandemic

Barbier, E.B. "From Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries: How the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity Has Evolved." Seminar, Payne Institute for Public Policy, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO 26 April 2019.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance." Public Address, Institute for Economics and the Environment, Portland State University, Portland, OR, 12 April 2019.

Barbier, E.B. "From Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries: How the Concept of Natural Resource Scarcity Has Evolved." Keynote Lecture, International Workshop on Economics and the Environment Since the 1950s – History, Methodology and Philosophy. University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France, 21-22 March 2019.

Barbier, E.B. "From Limits to Growth to Planetary Boundaries: The Evolution of Economic Views on Natural Resource Scarcity." Joint Seminar, Department of Economics and Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 8 March 2019.

Barbier, E.B. "The Water Paradox: Overcoming the Global Crisis in Water Management." Keynote Address, Poudre River Forum, Fort Collins, CO, 1 February 2019.

Barbier, E.B. "How to Pay for Saving Biodiversity: Can Private Sector Involvement in a Global Agreement Help to Conserve Global Biodiversity?" The Nature Conservancy Economics and Policy Team Webinar, 22 August 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Coastal Ecosystems as a Defense against Flood Damages: An Economic Perspective." Paper presented at the 2018 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, 5-10 August 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Economics for a Fragile Planet: Rethinking Markets, Institutions and Governance." Keynote Address, Dynamics: Out of the Air, SummerFest 2018: Mission Earth Viewpoint Series, Fort Collins, CO, 10 July 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Managing Safe Operating Spaces: The Economic and Policy Challenge." Invited Presentation, Thematic Session: Perspectives on Policies for the Anthropocene, 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 25-29 June 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "How to Pay for Saving Biodiversity." Invited Presentation, Policy Session: Sustaining the human well-being through addressing policy rebounds and failures for healthy natural capital - Strategies and way forward, 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 25-29 June 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Scarcity and Safe Operating Spaces: The Example of Natural Forests." Paper presented at the 6th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 25-29 June 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "The Aims and Objectives of Green Transformation in Developing Countries." Keynote Address, Green Transformation and Competitive Advantage: Evidence from Developing Countries. Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE, German Development Institute), Bonn, Germany, 18-19 June 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Nature and Wealth: Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality." Plenary Address, 16th World Congress of Social Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 11-13 June 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Distribution and Trends of Impoverished Rural Populations Living on Arid and Semi-Arid Agricultural Lands." UN Convention to Combat Desertification Scoping Meeting for the 2nd edition of the UNCCD’s Global Land Outlook (GLO2), New York, NY, 16-17 May 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Land Degradation and Poverty." UN-DESA Division for Sustainable Development Goals Expert Group Meeting on Sustainable Development Goal 15: Progress and Prospects, New York, NY, 14-15 May 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Institutional Constraints and the Forest Transition in Tropical Developing Countries." Paper presented at the 85th International Atlantic Economic Conference, London, United Kingdom, 14-17 March 2018.

Barbier, E.B. "Nature and Wealth: Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality." Invited Presentation, Liberal Arts Development Council, College of Liberal Arts, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, November 3, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Green Growth and Innovation" Invited Presentation, External Advisory Board Meeting, School of Global Environmental Sustainability, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, October 25, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Preserving Biodiversity: Perspectives from Economics, Health, Food, Water, and Energy." Panel, Global Biodiversity Summit, Global Biodiversity Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, October 12, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Valuing the Environment as Input to Estimate Ecosystem Services: What Have We Learned? Invited AAEA Session .Where are We Headed on Ecosystem Service Valuation." 2017 American Agricultural Economics Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, July 30-August 1, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Economic Valuation of Coastal Wetlands and Carbon Storage." Invited Presentation at the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine Workshop on Blue Carbon, Woods Hole, MA, July 25, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "The Dynamics of Poverty-Environment Traps." Paper presented at the 23rd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Athens, Greece, June 29-July 1, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Depletion of the Global Carbon Budget: A User Cost Approach." Paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Annual Summer Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, May 31-June 2, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Progress and Advancement in Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services." Keynote Address, Expert Workshop on The Economics and Financing of Restoration Opportunities, World Resources Institute, Washington, D.C., March 31, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Natural Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century." Seminar, Department of Economics, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, March 3, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Nature and Wealth: Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality." Invited Public Address, Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Phoenix, AZ, March 2, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "Natural Capital and Wealth in the 21st Century." Seminar, Department of Economics, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO., February 16, 2017.

Barbier, E.B. "The Dynamics of Poverty-Environment Traps." Applied Micro Seminar, Development Research Group, World Bank, Washington, D.C., December 14, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Advances and Frontiers at the Intersection of Environmental and Development Economics." Plenary Address, Heartland Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, November 11-13, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Building the Green Economy: Making Sustainability Competitive through Policy and Innovation." Keynote Address. Green Economy Konferenz 2016, Berlin, Germany 2 November 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Exploiting Natural Wealth for Sustainable Economic Development: Rethinking the Role of Sovereign Wealth Funds." Stroock Sovereign Wealth Forum, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, August 23-24, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. Comments on "Heterogeneous Wealth Dynamics: On the Roles of Risk and Ability" (Santos and Barrett) and "Agro-Ecosystem Productivity and the Dynamic Response to Shocks" (Chavas). National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) Conference .The Economics of Asset Accumulation and Poverty Traps., Washington, D.C., June 28-29, 2016

Barbier, E.B. "Sustainability and Development" Paper presented at the 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, June 22-25, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Is Green Growth Relevant for Developing Economies?" GGKP Policy Session on Inclusive Green Growth, The 22nd Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, Switzerland, June 22-25, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Nature and Wealth: Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality." Grantham Research Institute for Climate Change and the Environment, The London School of Economics, London, UK, June 20, 2016.

Barbier, E.B. "Nature and Wealth: Overcoming Environmental Scarcity and Inequality." Guest Lecture, Discovery Themes, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, November 6, 2015

Barbier, E.B. "The role of geographic poverty-environment traps" Policy Session: Climate Change and Poverty, The 21st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 24-27 June 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Is the income elasticity of the willingness to pay for pollution control constant?" Paper presented at the 21st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 24-27 June 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "The Protective Value of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in a Wealth Accounting Framework." Nova School of Business and Economics, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, April 24, 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Valuing the Storm Protection Service of Estuarine and Coastal Wetlands." 13th Annual Patrick Lecture Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 14, 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Living on the Edge: Protecting and Restoring Coastal Habitats." 13th Annual Patrick Lecture Series, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, April 13, 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Quantifying and Valuing Ecosystem Services for Coastal Management." Invited Address, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences 275th Anniversary Symposium on Maritime Research, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. February 17-18, 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Climate Change Impacts on Rural Poverty in Low-Elevation Coastal Zones." Conference on Climate Change and Poverty. The World Bank, Washington, D.C., February 9-10, 2015.

Barbier, E.B. "Knowledge Generation for Green Growth." Keynote Address. 2015 Green Growth Knowledge Platform Knowledge Partners Workshop. Ca. Foscari University of Venice, Italy. January 28, 2015

Barbier, E.B. "Is green growth relevant for poor economies?" Keynote Address. 3rd International Conference on Environment and Natural Resource Management in Developing and Transition Economies. CERDI, University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France. October 8-10, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Valuing ecosystem services for coastal protection and restoration: progress and challenges." Keynote Address. Gulf Research Program of the National Academies. Opportunity Analysis Workshop on Environmental Monitoring. New Orleans, LA. September 3-4, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Quantifying and valuing coastal ecosystem services to assist policy decisions." Symposium on Operationalizing the Concept of Ecosystem Services: Interdisciplinary Research and Synthesis. 99th Ecological Society of America Meeting, Sacramento, CA. August 10-15, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "The Protective Value of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in a Wealth Accounting Framework." Paper presented at the Thematic Session "Valuation Research on Ecosystem Services for Improved National Accounting." World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Istanbul, Turkey, June 28-July 2, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Explaining Forest Transitions: The Role of Governance." Paper presented at the Thematic Session "The Economic Analysis of the Forest Transition." World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (WCERE), Istanbul, Turkey, June 28-July 2, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Ecosystem Services and Tools for Wetland Management." Keynote Address, 1st International Symposium on Natural Resource Management. "Understanding Wetlands: A Key Issue in the Transition to a Sustainable Economy." Palma de Mallorca, Spain, June 19-21, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Building the Green Economy." Keynote Address, Big Ideas for Sustainable Prosperity: Policy Innovation for Greening Growth. University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada, April 28-29, 2014.

Barbier, E.B. "Ecosystem Services and the Poor on Marginal Lands: Tradeoffs and Synergies." Keynote Address, ESPA Annual Science Conference 2013, London, UK, November 20-21, 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economics Have Developed Through Natural Resource Depletion." Faculty Senate Speaker Series, Fall 2013 Award Lecture, University of Wyoming, Casper October 29 and Laramie November 11, 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Valuing Ecosystem Services for Coastal Wetland Protection and Restoration: Progress and Challenges." Invited Seminar, Marine Science Center, Northeastern University, Nahant, MA, October 24, 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Structural Change, Marginal Land and Economic Development in Latin America and the Caribbean" Keynote Address, Workshop on Environmental and Development Economics in Latin America, CIDE, Mexico City, Mexico, October 4-5, 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Biodiversity, Environmental Economics and Economic Policy" Plenary Address, Ecology and Economy for a Sustainable Society, 7th Trondheim Conference on Biodiversity, Trondheim, Norway, 27-31 May 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Is Green Growth Relevant for Poor Economies?" Plenary Address, Seminar on "Green Growth: Possible and Desirable?" The World Bank, Washington, D.C., 16 May 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Land Degradation and Rural Poverty: Economic and Social Aspects." Plenary Address, 2nd Scientific Conference, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), Bonn, Germany, 9-12 April 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Progress and Challenges in Valuing Ecosystem Services for Coastal Wetland Protection and Restoration." Plenary Address, Challenges of Natural Resource Economics and Policy, 4th National Forum on Socioeconomic Research in Coastal Systems, New Orleans, LA, 24-26 March 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "A Spatial Model of Coastal Ecosystem Services." Seminar, National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), Annapolis, MD, January 11, 2013.

Barbier, E.B. "Structural Change, Dualism and Economic Development", Keynote Speech, Environment for Development Sixth Annual Meeting, Arenal, Costa Rica, October 25-29, 2012.

Barbier, E.B. "Land Degradation and the Rural Poor". Keynote Address, 2012 Research Symposium on Soil Security, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, July 16-17, 2012

Barbier, E.B. "The Dualistic Frontier Economy in Developing Countries." Paper presented at the 19th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Charles University and the University of Economics, Prague, Czech Republic, June 27-30, 2012.

Barbier, E.B. "Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Eradication in Developing Countries." Presentation at the Dorothy R. and Norman E. McCulloch Center for Global Initiatives Global Challenges Conference, "Development in Crisis", Mount Holyoke College, MA, March 2-3, 2012.

Barbier, E.B. "Natural Capital, Ecological Scarcity and Rural Poverty." Paper presented at the inaugural conference of the World Bank.s Green Growth Knowledge Platform (GGKP), .Green Growth: Addressing the Knowledge Gaps,. Mexico City, Mexico, January 12-13, 2012

Barbier, E.B. "Overcoming Tenurial Constraints to Carbon Forestry Projects in Africa." Paper presented at the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists Inaugural Summer Conference, Seattle, WA, June 9-10, 2011.

Barbier, E.B. "Coastal Wetland Restoration and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill." Paper presented at Rigs, Risk, and Responsibility: Conference on the BP Oil Spill. Vanderbilt University Law School, Nashville, TN, April 1, 2011.

Barbier, E.B. "Linking Green Stimulus, Energy Efficiency and Technological Innovation: The Need of Complementary Policies." Paper prepared for the European Commission DG 1 (External Relations) Project, "Transatlantic Opportunities for Meeting Global Challenges in Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technologies". Presented at the Transatlantic Energy Efficiency Workshop, UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, CA, February 11-12, 2011.

Barbier, E.B. "Ecosystems as Natural Assets." Keynote Address, 11th Annual meeting of the Society for Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Nagoya, Japan, September 12, 2010.

Barbier, E.B. "A Spatial Model of Ecosystem Services." Paper presented at the 4th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Universitéu Quéc àontré (UQAM), Montreal, Canada, June 28-July 2, 2010.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. "Ecosystems as Natural Assets." Keynote Address, 11th Annual BioEcon Conference on "Economic Instruments to Enhance the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Biodiversity", Centro Culturale Don Orione Artignianelli, Venice, Italy, September 21-22.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. "A Monopolistic Competition Economic Model of the Horticultural Industry with a Risk of Harmful Plant Invasion." Paper presented at the 17th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Free University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June 24-27.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. "Financing Climate Mitigation and Adaptation at COP 15: Introductory Remarks." Invited presentation at the CC9 Climate Conference Green Technology and Finance: Striking a Fair Climate Change Agreement, Hafslund Manor, Sarpsborg, Norway, June 4-5.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. "A Global Green New Deal." Keynote Address, European Environment Bureau Conference Finding the New Path: A More Strategic Role for Sustainable Consumption and Production, Brussels, Belgium, May 27.

Barbier, E.B. 2009.  "Assigning Valuation of Coastal Habitats with Non-Linear Ecological Functions: The Example of Mangroves." Invited presentation at the Symposium Valuable and Vulnerable: Managing Ecosystem Services at the Land-Sea Interface. International Marine Conservation Congress, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, May 19-24.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. .Corruption, Poverty and Tropical Land Use.. Keynote Address, International Society of Tropical Foresters Annual Conference, .Conflict and Cooperation: Tools for Governing Tropical Forests.. March 27-29, 2009, Yale University.

Barbier, E.B. 2009. .A Global Green New Deal.. Keynote Address. World Bank Environment Day. The World Bank, Washington DC, March 23.

Barbier, E.B. 2008. Natural Resource Scarcity, Ecological Scarcity and Sustainable Development 20 Years On:  What Have We Learned That Is Relevant to Developing Countries? Plenary presentation at the Pre-Conference on Environment and Development, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 25.B

Barbier, E.B. 2008. .Corruption, Trade and the Political Economy of Resource-Based Development: A Comparison of Africa and Asia.. Paper presented at the 16th Annual Conference of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 25-28.

Barbier, E.B. 2008. .Ecological Scarcity: The Global Economic Challenge for the 21st Century.. President Speaker Series, University of Wyoming, Casper, WY April 8 and Laramie, WY April 17.

Barbier, E.B. 2008. .Ecological Scarcity and Sustainability: Key Economic Challenges for the 21st Century." Invited Speaker, Ecology Seminar Series, Penn State University, State College, PA, April 11.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. .Do Mangroves Reduce Expected Storm Damages? Valuing the Storm Protection Service of Coastal Wetlands..  Paper presented at the 15th Annual Conference of the EAERE, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 27-30.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. "To Replant or Not To Replant. Natural Barriers? Perhaps that is the Wrong Question." In Conference on Macromarketing and Development: Building Bridges and Forging Alliances. Washington, D.C., June 2-5, 2007.

Barbier, E.B. "Natural Capital, Resource Dependency and Poverty: Implications for India." Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: A Dialogue on India. The Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) and National Institute of Urban Affairs (NIUA), New Delhi, India, December 18-19, 2006.

Barbier, E.B. "In the Long Run We Are All Dead: Economics, History and Long-Run Ecological Change." Keynote Address to the Long Term Ecological Research Network 2006 All-Scientists Meeting, September 20-23, Estes Park, Colorado.

Barbier, E.B. "Valuing Ecosystem Services as Productive Inputs." Paper prepared for the 43rd Panel Meeting of Economic Policy in Vienna, Austria, 21-22 April 2006. 

Barbier, E.B., "Water Scarcity and Markets." Presentation for "The Culture of Water. Watering the West: the Evolution of Ownership, Control and Conflict in the West." Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, Wyoming, October 13-15, 2005.

Barbier, E.B., "Sustainable Resource-Based Development in Asia and the Pacific:  Overcoming the Problem of "Dualism within Dualism."  Paper presented at the Eminent Environmental Economists Symposium - The Fifth Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development in Asia and the Pacific 2005 - .Achieving Environmentally Sustainable Growth. - Seoul, South Korea, March 26, 2005.  Complete Text

Barbier, E.B., "Mangrove Dependency and the Livelihoods of Coastal Communities in Thailand."  Paper presented at the International Conference on Effective Land-Water Interface Management for Solving Agriculture Conflicts in Coastal Zones, Bac Lieu Province, Vietnam, March 1-3 2005.  Complete Text

Barbier, E.B.,  "Explaining Agricultural Land Expansion and Deforestation in Developing Countries."    Paper presented at the AAEA Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 1-4, 2004.  Complete text

Barbier, E.B., "Frontier Expansion and Resource-Based Development with Spillovers."  Paper presented at the NBER Summer Institute 2004 Workshop on Public Policy and the Environment, Cambridge, Massachusetts, August 2-3, 2004.  Complete Text

Barbier, E.B. and Chaudhry, A,  "Water and Growth in an Agricultural Economy."  Paper presented at the XIII Annual Conference of the EAERE, Budapest, Hungary, June 25-28, 2004.  Complete Text

Barbier, E.B., "Natural Capital, Resource Dependency and Poverty in Developing Countries: The Problem of 'Dualism within Dualism."   Paper presented at the IPD Task Force Meeting "Environmental Economics and Sustainable Development", Columbia University, New York, October 10-11, 2003.

Barbier, E.B., "Frontier Expansion and Economic Development." Paper presented at the Session on "Environmental Economics" at the 78th Western Economic Association International Annual Conference, Denver, CO, July 12, 2003. Complete Text

Bulte, E. and Barbier, E.B., "Trade, Renewable Resources and Biodiversity."  Plenary presentation (by E. Bulte) at the 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Bilbao, Spain, June 28-30, 2003. 

Barbier, E.B., "Water and Economic Growth." Paper presented at the workshop on "Water and Poverty."  Inter-American Development Bank and CIES, University of Santiago, Santiago, Chile, May 22-23, 2003 and at the 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists. Bilbao, Spain, June 28-30, 2003.

Barbier, E.B.,  "Frontiers and Sustainable Economic Development,"  Benjamin H. Hibbard Memorial Lecture, Department of Agricultural & Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, USA, April 4, 2003.  Complete Text

Barbier, E.B., "Does Water Scarcity Constrain Growth?"  Keynote Address, Conference of Australian Economists, Glenelg, South Australia, October 1-3, 2002

Barbier, E.B., "The Role of Natural Resources in Economic Development", 2002 Joseph Fisher Lecture in Economics, Adelaide University, Adelaide, Australia, September 30, 2002.  Complete text

Barbier, E.B. and Damania, R., "Lobbying, Trade and Resource Conversion."  Paper presented at the 2nd World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists, Monterey, CA, June 24-27 2002 and at the Workshop on "Trade, Biodiversity and Resources", University of Tilburg, the Netherlands, September 5-6, 2002.

Barbier, E.B., "Explaining Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America."  Paper presented at the 5th Gosnell Lecture Series, Department of Economics, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, February 8, 2002. 

Barbier, E.B., "Existing Agricultural Expansion, Resource Boons and Growth in Latin America."  Paper presented at the Toronto Conference on National Capital, Poverty and Development, The Munck Center for International Studies, University of Toronto, Canada, September 5 - 8, 2001. 

Barbier, E.B., "Habitat-Fishery Linkages and Mangrove Loss in Thailand."  Paper presented at the Session on "Coastal Ecosystems, Western Economics" at the 76th Western Economics Association International Annual Conference, San Francisco, CA, July 7, 2001 and at the Colorado University Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop 2001, Breckenridge, Colorado, July 16-17, 2001.

Barbier, E.B. and Cox, M. "Does Economic Development Lead to Mangrove Loss?: A Cross-Country Analysis." Paper presented at the 11th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, University of Southampton, June 28-30, 2001 and at the Session on Ecosystem, Conservation and the Environment, Western Economic Association International Meetings, San Francisco, July 7, 2001.

Barbier, E.B. "Agricultural Land Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth: Implications for Policy in Latin America." Paper presented at the Workshop on Growth and the Environment: Macro-Economic Perspectives. Inter-American Development Bank, Washington DC, May 29, 2001.

Barbier, E.B. "The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use" What Can We Learn from Cross-Country Analysis?" Plenary paper presented at the Second International Conference On Environment and Development, The Royal Swedish Academy Of Sciences, Stockholm, September 6th-8th 2000.

Barbier, E.B. "Institutional Constraints and Deforestation: An Application to Mexico". Paper presented at the 2000 Royal Economic Society/Scottish Economic Society Conference, St. Andrews, Scotland, July 10-13, 2000.