The Spanish-Portuguese Association of Natural and Environmental Resources Economics (AERNA) issues a prize of €1,000 for the best paper published in a scientific journal. This Award recognizes exemplary original research published by AERNA members in the field of Environmental and Resource Economics.
If you have published a paper in 2024-2025 and the following conditions are satisfied:
- at least the 50% of the authors have been members of AERNA during that period
- the paper belongs to a journal issue printed in 2024 or 2025, or the paper belongs to an exclusively online journal published in 2024 or 2025.
We encourage you to fill in this survey and submit (nominate) your paper before June 30th.
The winner will be announced during the 2026 AERNA Conference in Castellón (September 3-4, 2026).
Selection Committee: Pedro Pintassilgo (chair, U. of Algarve), Maria Loureiro (U. de Santiago de Compostela) and Esther Blanco (U. of Innsbruck).
For any additional information or clarifications please contact [email protected].
PAST AWARDEES
| Award/ Call year | Author | Citation |
| XI AERNA Award (2024) | Xavier Fageda Jordi J. Teixidó | “Pricing carbon in the aviation sector: Evidence from the European emissions trading system». Journal of environmental economics and management, Volume 111, January 2022, 102591 |
| VII AERNA Award (2022) | Esther Blanco, B. Vollan, I. Steimanis, F. Petutschnig and Prediger | “Procedural fairness and nepotism among local traditional and democratic leaders in rural Namibia. Science Advances, Vol. 6, no. 15, eaay7651, 2020. |
| VI AERNA Award | María Loureiro and Xavier Labandeira | «Exploring Energy Use in Retail Stores: A Field Experiment», Energy Economics 84 (2019) 104570 |
| V AERNA Award (2018) | María A. Cunha-E-Sá/ Sofía F. Franco | «The effect of development constraints on forest management at the urban-forest interface», American Journal of Agricultural Economics vol. 99, issue 3, pag. 614-636, (2017). |
| IV AERNA Award (2016) | Francisco J. André/ Sjak Smulders | «Fueling growth when oilpeaks: Directed technological change and the límits to efficiency», European Economic Review vol. 69, pag. 18-39, (2014). |
| III AERNA Award (2014) | Michael Finus /Pedro Pintassilgo | «The role of uncertainty and learning for the success of internacional climate agreements», Journal of Public Economics, vol. 103, pag.29-43, (2013). |
| II AERNA Award (2012) | Carmen Arguedas /D. Daan P. van Soest | «On reducing the windfall profits in environmental subsidy programs», Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, vol. 58, pag. 192-205, (2009). |
| I AERNA Award (2010) | Nuria Osés-Eraso /Montserrat Viladrich-Grau | «On the sustainability of common property resources», Journal of Environmental Economics and Management vol. 53 (3) , pag. 393–410 (2007) |