The mission of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is to contribute to sustainable development and to care for the environment through excellent scientific research and teaching. A unique feature of the institute is our capacity to cut through the complexity of natural-societal systems through novel interdisciplinary approaches.
PROFILE
INVOLVEMENT IN CLAIM
The Institute for Environmental Studies is primarily responsible for the coordination of the activities carried out in Workpackage 5, focusing on the socio-economic analysis of innovative marine litter reduction technologies. The IVM-team will focus specifically on the cost-effectiveness and economic efficiency of new marine litter reduction technologies, including their market and non-market impact assessment, the development of business models and the integrated assessment of the marine litter reduction technologies employed in CLAIM.
KEY SCIENTISTS INVOLVED
Roy Brouwer
rbrouwer [at]
uwaterloo [dot] ca
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Organisation: Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam & The Water Institute, University of Waterloo, Canada
Position: Professor in Economics
Expertise: Water resources economics, integrated environmental-economic modelling, valuation
Involvement in CLAIM: Roy is the coordinator of WP5 in CLAIM
Pieter Van Beukering
pieter [dot] van [dot] beukering [at] vu [dot] nl
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Organisation: Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Position: Deputy Director
Expertise: Pieter’s main research interests are in natural resource management and economic analyses focused on ecosystem services and waste management. Pieter is specialized in the economics of the marine environment
Involvement in CLAIM: Pieter is the deputy coordinator of WP5, and contributes to the integrated assessment of the marine litter reduction technologies
Hanna Dijkstra
hanna [dot] dijkstra
[at] vu [dot] nl
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Organisation: Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Position: PhD Student
Expertise: Environmental economics, sustainable finance, ecosystem services
Involvement in CLAIM: My PhD research will focus on the potential to scale environmental technologies to manage and clean marine plastics. The research will look at which types of business models can be applied to ventures managing public goods, specifically looking at waste recovery and marine protection
Linh Nguyen
l [dot] t [dot] nguyen [at] tinbergen [dot] nl
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Organisation: Institute for Environmental Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Position: PhD Student
Expertise: Environmental economics, economic modelling and valuation
Involvement in CLAIM: The objective of my work is to assess the market and non-market impacts of marine litter and their clean-up on tourism and recreation around the Mediterranean and Baltic Sea. I will develop a tourism sector model to examine the market impacts as well as use non-market valuation approaches such as random utility travel cost and discrete choice models to assess the non-market impacts of marine litter reduction technologies