I represent the Department of Environmental Economics (EE) of the Institute for Environmental Studies, VU Universty Amsterdam. We have broad expertise in the environmental economics domain. We are involved in a wide range of national and EU research projects that involve forest adaptations, forests as nature-based solutions to societal risk, and valuation and trade-off analysis of forest ecosystem services.

Our offer is to lead a work package, for example on trade-offs and synergies between key forest ecosystem services in various scenarios of forest development. Key ingredients here may be market and non-market valuation of ecosystem services, effectiveness of paymenst for ecosystem services, and assessing effects of management and policy interventions through social cost-benefit analyses.

Established in 1971, IVM is a leading environmental research institute that is internationally recognised for its high-quality research output in a range of environmental disciplines, as well as for its interdisciplinary work. The mission of the institute is to contribute to sustainable development and care for the environment through scientific research and teaching. IVM aims to do excellent problem-oriented research that is useful to a wide range of stakeholders in the Netherlands and internationally. A unique strength of our research is to understand sustainability problems in their social and economic context.

The Depertment of Environmental Economics consists of around 45 scientific staff and PhD researchers. The department strategy is to consolidate and further strengthen its position as a major player in the European field of environmental economics. Important fields of application include climate change, energy, circular economy, water, ecosystem services, and environmental and natural resource management. A key element of the philosophy of the EE department is to conduct research jointly with stakeholders and collaborating institutes.