“Adaptation to Climate Change: Lessons from and for the Mediterranean”

Time & Location

29 June -3 July 2026

Carcevelos – Portugal

About the event

7th World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists

Session Chair:

Simone Borghesi (European University Institute & University of Siena)

Speakers:

Sevil Acar (Professor of Economics at Boğaziçi University (Türkiye).

Santiago J. Rubio Jorge Professor in the Department of Economic Analysis at the
University of Valencia (Spain).

Walid Marrouch Parthenope): Professor of Economics and Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at the Lebanese American University (LAU).

Maria Antonieta Cunha e Sá Professor of Economics at Nova School of Business and Economics (Nova SBE), Lisbon (Portugal).

This session will explore how adaptation responses are being designed and implemented across key sectors, with particular attention to economic incentives, governance arrangements and distributional consequences. By bringing together leading scholars and practitioners from across the Mediterranean, the session aims to identify common challenges, successful strategies and persistent gaps in adaptation policy, and to draw lessons that are relevant both within the region and for other climate-vulnerable contexts worldwide. The session can be of interest to many non-Mediterranean environmental and resource economists as well, as it engages with core analytical themes such as the valuation of climate impacts, the design of policy instruments under uncertainty, strategic interactions in adaptation, and the integration of adaptation into natural resource management and long-term development pathways.