Personalia

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Centrum voor Economische Studiën
Naamsestraat 69
B - 3000 Leuven BELGIUM

tel: + 32 16 32 66 37 (office)

fax: + 32 16 32 69 10 (office)

Current Position

Since August 1997, I am working at the CES as a research officer and Ph.D. student. My main topic of interest is environmental economics and my Ph.D research focusses on the economic valuation of natural areas. I am currently involved in two projects:

Economic valuation and optimization techniques for land-use changes

Steunpunt Milieubeleidswetenschappen

Previously, I was involved in several other projects dealing with valuation and land-use change:

VLINA 1 (1997-2000): Economic valuation of forests

VLINA 2 (2000-2002): Cost-benefit analysis of afforestation in Flanders

PBO98 (2000-2002): Scenarios for greenhouse gas emissions reduction through carbon sequestration and energy substitution: land use, environmental impacts and cost efficiency

PBO-Kyoto (2000-2002): Economische impact van Kyoto doelstellingen op de Vlaamse economie

Education

Publications

BOOK	Moons, E.; Eggermont, K.; Hermy, M.; Proost, S. (2000), Economische waardering van bossen - een case-study van Heverleebos-Meerdaalwoud, Garant, Leuven, 356 p.
CHAPTER IN BOOK	Moons, E.; Proost, S.; Nunes, P.; Hermy, M.; Eggermont, K. (2000), “Baten van een natuurgebied” in MIRA-S 2000 Milieu- en natuurrapport Vlaanderen: scenario's, Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij and Garant, 586-588.
JOURNAL ARTICLES	Lettens, S.; Muys, B.; Ceulemans, R.; Moons, E.; Garcia, J.; Coppin, P. (2003), “Energy budget and greenhouse gas balance evaluation of sustainable coppice systems for electricity production”, Biomass and Bioenergy, 24, 179-197.   Eggermont, K.; Hermy, M.; Moons, E., Proost, S. (1999), “Waardering van de multifunctionele rol van een bos: een case study voor Meerdaalwoud-Heverleebos”, Silva Belgica, 106(5), 22-29.
PREPRINTS	Moons, E.; Proost, S.; Ceulemans, R.; Muys, B. (2000), “Integrating Recreation Benefits with Carbon Sequestration”, preprints international conference on Sustainable Energy: New challenges for agriculture and implications for land use, edited by E. Van Ierland; A Oude Lansink and E. Schmieman, May 18-20 2000, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS	Muys, B.; Deckmyn, G.; Moons, E.; Garcia, J.; Proost, S.; Ceulemans, R.(2003), “An integrated decision support tool for the prediction and evaluation of efficiency, environmental impact and total social cost of forestry projects in the framework of the Kyoty Protocol”, in: Vacik, H., M.J.Lexer, M.H. Rauscher, K.M. Reynolds and R.T. Brooks (eds.). Decision support for multipurpose forestry. CD-proceedings of a transdisciplinary IRFRO conference on the development and application of decision support tools for forest management. BOKU, Vienna, 23-25 April 2003.
RECENT RESEARCH PAPERS	The development and application of economic valuation techniques and their use in environmental policy - A survey ETE Working Paper 2003-07 (504 KB)   Cost-benefit analysis of the location of new forest land ETE Working Paper 2002-05 (604 KB)   Moons, E., Loomis, J., Proost, S., Eggermont, K., Hermy, M. Travel cost and time measurement in travel cost models ETE Working Paper 2001-22 (416 KB)