From the inbox:
International Workshop on
"Recent Trends in Non Market Valuation"
November 3rd-4th, 2011
International Center for Climate Governance, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice – Italy
The International Center for Climate Governance (ICCG) - a joint initiative of the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini - in collaboration with the Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change (CMCC), is pleased to announce the International Workshop on "Recent Trends in Non Market Valuation" to be held in Venice, on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, on November 3-4, 2011.Objectives
Non-market valuation is a collection of methods and techniques for placing a monetary value on goods that are not traded in regular marketplaces. These include environmental quality, health risks, artistic and cultural heritage, and natural resources that are visited and used for recreational purposes.
The goal of this workshop is to examine and discuss recent and emerging methodological and technical issues, solutions to such issues, and applications of existing methods to novel areas and topics. Hedonics, consumer-behavior methods, contingent valuation and conjoint choice experiments, and the travel cost methods will be covered.Further information, including the programme, is available at http://www.iccgov.org/workshop_non_market_valuation.htm.The workshop is open to a limited and selected audience.
So ... the program looks great but you can only get a seat if you are one of the special people? So ... what is the point of the announcement on the RESECON list?
Here is what I would have put in the email:
Here is our great workshop.
You weren't invited to speak.
We don't want you to attend (even if you could get a decent flight to Venice at this late notice).
We just wanted you to know that we are great and you, dear sirs and madams, are peons.
Enjoy your mailbox clutter.
Now go back to your mundance, uninteresting and trivial research.
