Philippe Le Coënt
Environmental Economist
Biography :
Philippe was originally trained as an agronomist and worked for 10 years as an expert in crop production, including 6 years at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). He then developed research activities in environmental economics and obtained his PhD in economics in 2016. His early research work focused on the design and evaluation of innovative policy instruments to promote pro-environmental behavior by farmers, taking especially into account the role of social norms. He mainly mobilized economics experiments in the lab as well as Randomized Controlled Experiments (RCT). Since 2018, he is a researcher in environmental economics at BRGM in Montpellier, France. He develops research on the economic valuation of the environment and ecosystem services. His main research theme is about the economic evaluation of Nature Based Solutions primarily aiming at improving water related services, in urban context. He is also developing research on water resource economics and decision-making methods for the development of adaptation strategies to the impact of climate change on underground water resources.
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contact :
p.lecoent@brgm.fr
HAL numerical identifier :
183562