CentER

Erwin Bulte



I. BIOGRAPHICAL DATA

Name: Erwin Hendricus Bulte
Address: Department of Economics
Tilburg University
Warandelaan 2
5037 AB Tilburg
The Netherlands
telephone: +31 13 466 2707
e-mail: erwin.bulte@wur.nl
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Date of Birth: April 26, 1968
Citizenship:Dutch
Marital Status:Not Married, Living together
Sex: Male
Children: 3 (Steijn, 10-02-2001, Pieter, 25-05-2003 and Thom, 15-07-2005)

II. EDUCATION

Bachelor's: Wageningen Agricultural University, Forestry
Wageningen Agricultural University, Agricultural Economics
Master's: Wageningen Agricultural University, Forestry
Wageningen Agricultural University, Agricultural Economics
Ph.D: Netherlands Network of Economics (NAKE), and Wageningen Agricultural University

III. WORKING EXPERIENCE

Appointments:

  • Professor of Development Economics, Wageningen University, November 2006 - Present
  • Professor of Environmental and Natural Resource Economics, Department of Economics, Tilburg University, March 2005 - Present

Other appointments:

  • Senior Research Fellow, University of Cambridge, Dept. of Land Economy, 2005-present
  • Senior Advisor to the Agricultural and Development Economics Division (ESA) at the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), 2005-present

Earlier appointments:

  • KNAW researcher (researcher of the Royal Dutch Academy of Arts and Sciences), Department of Economics, Tilburg University, February 2000-March 2005
  • Associate professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University, February 2000–March 2005
  • Assistant professor, Department of Economics, Tilburg University, January1998- January 2000 (80%)
  • Assistant professor, Department of Development Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University, September 1996-January 1998 (full time), January 1998-January 2000 (20%)

Visiting Scholar / seminar speaker:

  • Department of Economics, Helsinki School of Economics, Finland, March 2006
  • Department of Economics, University of Stirling, Scotland, February 2006
  • Department of Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, February 2006
  • Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, UK, January 2006
  • Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, St. Paul MN,USA, April 2005
  • Department of Economics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway, May 2005
  • Department of Economics, University of Central Florida, Orlando FL, USA, November 2003
  • Department of Economics, University of Montreal, Canada, October 2003
  • Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, USA, (i) February 2002, (ii) April 2002, (iii) March 2004
  • Department of Economics, University College London, U.K., (i) December 2001, (ii) December 2003
  • Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, U.S.A., (i) May 2001, (ii) October 2001 – November 2001, (iii) January 2005
  • Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A., (i) November 2000, (ii) May 2001
  • Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Laramie, U.S.A., (i) November 2000, (ii) February 2003
  • Coral Reef Project, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) Amsterdam, “Economic Costs of Coral Bleaching in Indian Ocean”, Maldives, June 1999
  • REPOSA project (Research Program on Sustainability in Agriculture), Guapiles, Costa Rica, (i) May 1997 - June 1997, (ii) May 1998-June 1998
  • Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University, U.S.A., (i) Jan. 1996 - Feb. 1996, (ii) March 1997 - April 1997
  • Forest Economics and Policy Analysis Research Unit, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, (i) Feb. 1995 - March 1995, (ii) July 1995 - August 1995, (iii) October 1997, (iv) October 1998
  • Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A., April 1995 - May 1995

IV. MANAGEMENT / DEPARTMENT SERVICE

  • Research coordinator micro-economics, Tilburg University (September 2004 – present).
  • Co-chair of global research programme of biodiversity science DIVERSITAS (together with Ecologist Prof. Andy Hector, University of Zurich). Core Project 2 “Assessing Impacts of Biodiversity Changes” http://www.icsu.org/diversitas/ (January 2003-present)
  • Education coordinator micro–economics, Tilburg University (January 2000 – August 2004)
  • Secretary General of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists EAERE (1998-January 2000)
  • Member of ROC-M10 1996-1998 (Department Commission on Education in Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University).

V. EDITORIAL MATTERS

  • Associate Editor, Environment and Development Economics, 2004 - present
  • Associate Editor, Natural Resource Modeling, 2005 – present
  • Associate Editor: Environmental & Resource Economics, 2005 – present
  • Member Editorial Council, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 2004 – present
  • Member Editorial Board, Australian Economic Papers, 2003 – present
  • Member Editorial Board, Animal Conservation, 2005 – present

VI. RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

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Books

van Kooten G.C. and E.H. Bulte, 2000. The Economics of Nature: Managing Biological Assets, Blackwell Publishers, 528 p.

van Kooten, G.C., E.H. Bulte and A.R.E. Sinclair, 2000 (editors). Conserving Nature's Diversity: Insights from Biology, Ethics and Economics, Ashgate Publishers, 206 p.

Bulte E.H., 1997. Essays in Economics of Renewable Resources, Department of general Economics, Wageningen Agricultural University, Ph.D thesis (also published as: Bulte E.H (1997), Case Studies in Economics of Renewable Resources: Optimal Management of Trees, Fish and Mammals, Mansholt Studies 9, Mansholt Institute, Wageningen Agricultural University)

Chapters in Books

Bulte E.H. and S. Engel, 2006. Conservation of tropical forests: Addressing market failure. Chapter in: R. Lopez and M. Toman (eds.), Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options, Oxford: Oxford University Press

Horan R.D., J. Hrubovcak, J.S. Shortle and E.H. Bulte, 2003. Accounting for the distributional impacts of policy in the green accounts. Chapter 6 in: J. Vincent and C. Perrings (eds.), Natural Resource Accounting and Economic Development: Theory and Practice, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar (also published as article in Environment and Development Economics)

Jansen, H.G.P., R.A. Schipper, P. Roebeling, E.H. Bulte, H. Hengsdijk, B.A.M. Bouman, A. Nieuwenhuyse, 2001. Alternative approaches to the economics of soil nutrient depletion in Costa Rica. Chapter 13: pp.211-234. In: N. Heerink, H. van Keulen en M. Kuiper (eds.), Economic Policy and Sustainable Land Use in LDCs: Recent Advances in Quantitative Analysis for Developing Countries. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag.

Angelsen, A., D.P. van Soest, D. Kaimowitz and E.H. Bulte, 2001. Technological change and tropical deforestation: A theoreical overview. In: A. Angelsen and D. Kaimowitz (eds.), Agricultural Technologies and Tropical Deforestation, Wallingford: CAB International

Bulte, E.H., D.P. van Soest and G.C. van Kooten, 2000. Economics, endangered species and biodiversity loss: The dismal science in practice. Chapter 9: pp. 123-142. In: G.C. van Kooten, E.H. Bulte and A.R.E. Sinclair (eds.), Conserving Nature's Diversity: Insights from Biology, Ethics and Economics, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers

van Kooten, G.C., E.H. Bulte, 2000. Valuing biodiversity: The importance of the margin. In: G.C. van Kooten, E.H. Bulte and A.R.E. Sinclair (eds.), Conserving Nature's Diversity: Insights from Biology, Ethics and Economics, Aldershot: Ashgate Publishers

van Kooten, G.C., R. Sedjo and E.H. Bulte, 1999. Tropical Deforestation: Issues and Policies. Chapter 5: pp. 198-249. In: H. Folmer and T.H. Tietenberg (eds.), The International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics 1999/2000: A Survey of Current Issues (3), Aldershot: Edward Elgar.

Refereed Journal Articles

  1. Baker, M.J., E.H. Bulte and J. Weisdorf, 2010. The origins of governments: From anarchy to hierarchy, Journal of Institutional Economics, In Press
  2. Qin, T. and E.H. Bulte, 2010. Trust, market participation and economic outcomes: Evidence from rural China, World Development, In Press
  3. Bulte, E.H., X. Zhang and N. Heerink, 2010. China’s one child policy and distorted sex ratios: Nature versus nurture and the mystery of the vanishing women, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, In Press
  4. Horan, R., J. Shogren and E.H. Bulte, 2010. Joint determination of biological encephalization and economic specialization, Resource and Energy Economics, In Press
  5. Baker, M.J. and E. Bulte, 2010. Kings and vikings: On the dynamics of competitive agglomeration, Economics of Governance, In Press
  6. Bindraban, P., E. Bulte and S. Conijn, 2009, Can large-scale biofuels production be sustainable by 2020? Agricultural Systems, 101: 197-199
  7. Brunnschweiler, C. and E.H. Bulte, 2009. Natural resources and violent conflict: Resource abundance, dependence and the onset of civil wars. Oxford Economic Papers, 61: 651-674
  8. Wick, K. and E.H. Bulte, 2009. The curse of natural resources. Annual Review of Resource Economics, 1: 139-155
  9. Brunnschweiler, C.N. and E.H. Bulte, 2008. Are resource-rich countries cursed? Linking natural resources to slow growth and more conflict. Science, 320 (May 2, 2008): 616-617
  10. Horan, R.D., E.H. Bulte and J.F. Shogren, 2008. Coevolution of human speech and trade. Journal of Economic Growth, 13: 293-313
  11. Andersen, S., E.H. Bulte, U. Gneezy and J.A. List, 2008. Can women save mankind from itself? Preliminary experimental evidence from a matrilineal society. American Economic Review (Papers and Proceedings), 98: 376-381
  12. Bouma, J., E.H. Bulte and D.P. van Soest, 2008. Trust, trustworthiness and cooperation: Social capital and community resource management. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 56: 155-166
  13. Damania, R and E. Bulte, 2008. Resources for sale: Corruption, democracy and the natural resource curse. The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, 8, article 5 ("contributions")
  14. Brunnschweiler, C.N. and E.H. Bulte, 2008. The resource curse revisited and revised: A tale of paradoxes and red herrings. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55: 248-264
  15. Bulte, E.H., N. L. Lipper, McCartney, R. Stringer, and D. Zilberman, 2008. Paying for ecosystem services: An introduction to the special issue. Environment and Development Economics, 13: 245-254
  16. Bulte, E.H., R. Boone, R. Stringer and P. Thornton, 2008. Elephants or onions? Paying for nature in Amboseli, Kenya. Environment and Development Economics (special issue on paying for ecosystem services and poverty alleviation), 13: 395-414
  17. Bulte, E.H., R. Damania, R. and R. Lopez, 2007. On the gains of committing to inefficient production: Lobbying and low land productivity in Latin America, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54: 277-295
  18. Rondeau, D. and E.H. Bulte. Compensation for wildlife damage: Habitat conversion, species preservation and local welfare. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 54: 311-322.
  19. Damania, R. and E.H. Bulte, 2007. The economics of captive breeding and endangered species conservation, Ecological Economics, In Press
  20. E.H. Bulte and R. Rondeau, 2007. Wildlife damage and agriculture: A dynamic analysis of compensation schemes. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 89: 490-507.
  21. Bulte, E.H., J. List and M. Strazicich, 2007. Regulatory federalism and the distribution of air pollutant emissions, Journal of Regional Science, 47: 155-178.
  22. Bouma, J., D.P. van Soest and E.H. Bulte, 2007. How sustainable is participatory watershed development in India? Agricultural Economics, 36: 13-22.
  23. Wick, A.K. and E.H. Bulte, 2006. Contesting resources – rent seeking, conflict and the natural resource curse, Public Choice, 128: 457-476.
  24. Damania, R. and E.H. Bulte, 2006. Renewable resource regulation and uncertain prices: The role of financial structure and bankruptcy, Resource and Energy Economics 28: 41-53
  25. Bulte, E.H., R.D. Horan and J.F. Shogren, 2006. A parable of small animals and megafauna extinction: A paleo-economic theory of climate change versus human overkill in the Pleistocene, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 59: 297-323
  26. Bulte, E.H., R. Damania, G.C. van Kooten, 2005. Do one off ivory sales encourage illegal harvests of elephants? Journal of Wildlife Management 69: 14-19
  27. Bulte, E.H. and R. Damania, 2005. A note on trade liberalization and common pool resources, Canadian Journal of Economics 38: 883-899
  28. Bulte, E.H., R. Damania and R.T. Deacon, 2005. Resource intensity, institutions and development, World Development 33: 1029-1044
  29. Bulte, E.H., S. Gerking, J. List and A. de Zeeuw, 2005. The effect of varying the causes of environmental problems on stated values: evidence from a field study, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 49: 330-342
  30. Bulte, E.H. and D. Rondeau, 2005. Why compensating wildlife damages may be bad for conservation, Journal of Wildlife Management 69: 14-19
  31. Horan, R.D., E.H. Bulte and J.F.Shogren, 2005. How trade saved humanity from biological exclusion: The Neanderthal enigma revisited and revised, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 58: 1-29
  32. Bulte, E.H. and E. Barbier, 2005. Trade and renewable resources in a second best world: An overview, Environmental and Resource Economics 30: 423-462
  33. Bulte, E.H. and R. Damania 2005, Wildlife farming and conservation: An economic assessment, Conservation Biology 19: 1222-1233
  34. Bulte, E.H., R. Damania, L. Gillson and K. Lindsay, 2004. Space: The final frontierfor economists and elephants? Science (Perspectives section, October 15), 420-421
  35. Barbier E. and E.H. Bulte, 2004. Introduction to the Symposium on Trade, Renewable Resources and Biodiversity, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48: 883-889
  36. Bulte, E.H., S.Gerking, J.A. List and A.J. de Zeeuw, 2004. Do causes of environmental problems affect Hicksian equivalent surplus? Evidence from the field, Economics Letters 85: 157-162
  37. Horan, R.D. and E.H. Bulte, Optimal and open access harvesting of multi-use species in a second best world, Environmental and Resource Economics 28: 251-272
  38. Pacala, S.W., E.H. Bulte, J.A. List and S.A. Levin, 2003. False alarm over environmental false alarms (Policy Forum), Science 301 (August 29): 1187-1188 (online material available at: www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/301/5637/1188/DC1 )
  39. Bulte,E.H., R.D. Horan and J.F. Shogren, 2003. Elephants: Comment, American Economic Review 93: 1437-1445
  40. Bulte, E.H., R.D. Horan and J.F. Shogren, 2003. Is the Tasmanian Tiger extinct? A biological-economicsre-evaluation, Ecological Economics 45: 273-281
  41. Bulte, E.H. and R.D. Horan, 2003. Habitat conservation, wildlife extraction and agricultural expansion, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 45: 109-127
  42. Horan, R.D., E.H. Bulte and J.F. Shogren, 2003. A Paleoeconomic theory of co-evolution and extinction of domesticable animals, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50: 19-36
  43. Bulte, E.H. and R. Damania, 2003. Managing ecologically interdependent species, Natural Resource Modeling 16: 21-38
  44. Bulte, E.H., R.D. Horan and C. Mason, 2003. Banking on extinction: Endangered species and speculation, Land Economics 79: 460-471
  45. Bulte, E.H., 2003. Open access harvesting of wildlife: The poaching pit and conservation of endangered species, Agricultural Economics 28: 27-37
  46. Horan, R.D., F. Lupi, C. Perrings and E.H. Bulte, 2002. Management of invasive species under ignorance, American Journal of Agricultural Economics (Principal Paper Session): 84: 1303-1310
  47. Bulte, E.H. and R.D. Horan, 2002. Does human population growth increase wildlife harvesting? An economic assessment, Journal of Wildlife Management 66: 574-580
  48. Bulte E.H., D.P. van Soest, G.C. van Kooten and R. Schipper, 2002. Forest conservation in Costa Rica when nonuse benefits are uncertain but rising, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84: 150-160
  49. List, J.A., E.H. Bulte and J.F. Shogren, 2002. “Beggar thy neighbor:” Testing for free-riding in state-level endangered species expenditures, Public Choice 111: 303-315
  50. Bokjanic, A. and E.H. Bulte, 2002. Financial viability of natural forest management in Bolivia: Environmental regulation and the dissipation and distribution of profits, Forest Policy & Economics 4: 239-250
  51. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 2002. A note on downward sloping demand for environmental amenities and international compensation: Elephant conservation and strategic culling, Agricultural Economics 27: 15-22
  52. Bulte E.H., D.P. van Soest, A. Angelsen and G.C. van Kooten, 2002. Technological change and tropical deforestation: A perspective at the household level, Environment and Development Economics 7: 269-280
  53. Bulte E.H. and D.P. van Soest, 2001. Environmental degradation in developing countries: Households and the (reverse) environmental Kuznets Curve, Journal of Development Economics 65: 225-235
  54. Bulte, E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 2001. State intervention to protect endangered species: Why history and bad luck matter, Conservation Biology 15: 1804-1809
  55. van Kooten, G.C., E. Krcmar-Nozic and E.H. Bulte, 2001. Fuzzy measures for a fuzzy concept: A new approach to nonmarket valuation, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 83: 487-500
  56. Heerink N., E.H. Bulte and A. Mulatu, 2001. Aggregation bias and the environmental Kuznets Curve: Income inequality and the environment, Ecological Economics 38: 359-367
  57. Bulte, E.H., 2001. Minimum viable populations and sluggish management, Environmental Conservation 28: 191-193
  58. Van Kooten, G.C., B. Stennes and E.H. Bulte, 2001. Cattle and wildlife competition for forage: Budget versus bioeconomic analyses of public range improvements in British Columbia, Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 49: 71-86
  59. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 2001. Harvesting and conserving a species when numbers are low: Viability and gambler's ruin in bioeconomic models, Ecological Economics 37: 87-100
  60. Van Soest D.P. and E.H. Bulte, 2001. Does the energy-efficiency paradox exist? Technological progress and uncertainty, Environmental and Resource Economics 18: 101-112
  61. Kinyua, P., G.C. van Kooten and E.H. Bulte, 2000. African wildlife policy: Protecting wildlife herbivores on private game ranches, European Review of Agricultural Economics 27: 227-244
  62. Bulte E.H., B.A.M. Bouman, R.A.J. Plant, A. Nieuwenhuyse and H.G.P. Jansen, 2000. Soil nitrogen stocks and pasture degradation, with an application to cattle ranching in Costa Rica, European Review of Agricultural Economics 27: 207-226
  63. van Kooten G.C. and E.H. Bulte, 2000. The ecological footprint: Useful science or politics? Ecological Economics 32: 385-389 (Invited Paper for forum on the Ecological Footprint)
  64. Bulte E.H., M. Joenje and H.P.G. Jansen, 2000. Is there too much or too little natural forest in the Atlantic Zone of Costa Rica, Canadian Journal of Forest Research30: 495-506
  65. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 2000. Economic science, endangered species and biodiversity Loss, Conservation Biology 14: 113-119
  66. Brazee R.J. and E.H. Bulte, 2000. Optimal thinning and harvesting with stochastic prices, Forest Science 46: 23-31
  67. Horan R.D., J. Hrubovcak, J.S. Shortle and E.H. Bulte, 2000. Accounting for the distributional impacts of policy in the green accounts, Environment and Development Economics 5: 95-108
  68. van Kooten G.C and E.H. Bulte, 1999. How much primary coastal temperate rain forest should society retain? Carbon uptake, recreation and other values, Canadian Journal of Forest Research 29: 1879-1889
  69. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 1999. Economics of antipoaching enforcement and the ivory trade ban, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 81: 453-466
  70. Horan R.D., J.S. Shortle and E.H. Bulte, 1999. Renewable resource policy when distributional impacts matter,Environmental and Resource Economics 14: 191-215
  71. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 1999. Metapopulation dynamics and stochastic bioeconomic modeling, Ecological Economics 30: 293-299
  72. Rose A., E.H Bulte and H. Folmer, 1999. Long run implications for developing countries of joint implementation of greenhouse gas mitigation, Environmental and Resource Economics 14: 19-31
  73. Bulte E.H. and D.P. van Soest, 1999. A note on soil depth,failing markets and agricultural pricing, Journal of Development Economics 58, 245-254
  74. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 1999. Marginal valuation of charismatic species: Implications for conservation, Environmental and Resource Economics 14: 119-130
  75. Bulte E.H. and G.C. van Kooten, 1999. Economic efficiency, resource conservation and the ivory trade ban, Ecological Economics 28: 171-182
  76. Woldehanna T., E.H. Bulte and W.J.M. Heijman, 1998. Economics of deforestation in Ethiopia, Agricultural Economics, In Press
  77. Bulte E.H., H. Folmer and W.J.M. Heijman, 1998. Mixed good management: The case of minke whales, European Review of Agricultural Economics 25, 75-93
  78. Van Kooten G.C., E.H.Bulte and P. Kinyua, 1997. Game cropping and wildlife conservation in Kenya: a dynamic simulation model with adaptive control, Agricultural Systems 54, 439-462
  79. Bulte E.H. and J.M.E. Pennings, 1997. Tradeable fish quota and futures markets, European Journal of Law and Economics 4, 327-334
  80. Ells A., E.H. Bulte and G.C. van Kooten, 1997. Uncertainty and forest land use in British Columbia: Vague preferences and imprecise coefficients, Forest Science 43: 509-520
  81. Bulte E.H. and D.P. van Soest, 1996. A note on high discount rates and depletion of tropical forests, Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 21, pp. 341-350
  82. Bulte E.H and G.C. van Kooten, 1996. A note on ivory trade and elephant conservation, Environment and Development Economics 1, pp. 433-443
  83. Bulte E.H., J.M.E. Pennings and W.J.M. Heijman, 1996. Futures markets, price stabilization and efficient exploitation of exhaustible resources, Environmental and Resource Economics 8, pp. 351-366
  84. Bulte E.H. and D.P. van Soest, 1996. International transfers, price uncertainty and tropical deforestation, Environment and Development Economics 1:3, pp. 281-287
  85. Bulte E.H. and D.P. van Soest, 1996. Tropical deforestation, timber concessions and slash-and-burn agriculture: why encroachment may promote conservation of primary forests, Journal of Forest Economics 2, pp. 55-66
  86. Bulte E.H., H. Folmer and W.J.M. Heijman, 1995. Open access, common property and scarcity rent in fisheries, Environmental and Resource Economics 6: pp. 309-320


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