Resource and environmental economics research group FED 4116 SCALE Supervisor of Master's program in Environmental risk management
Past and Current Positions
Adjunct professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa (2011 to present)
Associate professor, Department of Economics, Faculty of Law, Economics and Management, Université de Rouen (2005 to present)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Axiomatics of Resource Allocation, Faculté Universitaires Notre Dame de la Paix - FUNDP Namur (The University of Namur), supervisor, François Maniquet (2003-2005).
Research Interests
Economic Theory and the Environment
Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Management
Global Change and Ecosystem Management
Decision Theory
Social Choice and Welfare
Current Research
Chevé, M. Congar, R. and Diop, P., Resilience and Stability of Harvested Predator-prey Systems to Infectious Diseases in the Predator. In progress.
Congar, R., Hotte, L., Property rights and mobile capital. In progress.
Chevé, M. Congar, R., Uncertainty in Natural Regeneration and the Robust Management of Environmental Resources. In progress.
Congar, R., Allocating permits proportional to current emissions is not Pareto Improving
Publications
Congar, R., Merlin, V., 2010. A Characterization of the Maximin Rule in the Context of Voting, forthcoming in Theory and Decision (AERES List Rank A Journal in Economics and Management. CNRS List Rank 2 Journal in Economic Theory).
Congar, R., Maniquet, F., 2010. A trichotomy of attitudes for decision-making under complete ignorance, Mathematical Social Sciences 9, 15–25 (AERES List Rank A Journal in Economics and Management. CNRS List Rank 2 Journal in Economic Theory).
Chevé, M., Congar R., 2003. La gestion des risques environnementaux en présence d’incertitudes et de controverses scientifiques : une interprétation du principe de précaution, Revue Économique 54 (6), 1335-1352.
Chevé, M., Congar R., 2002. Managing environmental risks under uncertainty and controversy. In: van Ierland, E.C., Weikard, H.P., Wesseler, J. Proceedings of the International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
Chevé, M., Congar., R., 2000. Optimal pollution control under imprecise environmental risk and irreversibility, Risk, Decision and Policy 5, 151-164.
Chevé, M., Congar., R., 1999. Consumption/pollution tradeoffs under hard uncertainty and irreversibility. In: de Cooman, G., Cozman, F.G., Moral, S., Walley, P. (Eds.) ISIPTA’99 Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, The Imprecise Probabilities Project, Ghent, Belgium.
International Conferences
Chevé, M. Congar, R. and Diop, P., Resilience and Stability of Harvested Predator-prey Systems to Infectious Diseases in the Predator. International Conference: Environment and Natural Resource Management in Developing and Transition Economies, November 18-19, 2010, Clermont Ferrand, France.
Congar, R., Merlin V., A Characterization of the Maximin Rule in the Context of Voting. FUR 2008 XIII International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory, July 2-5, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
Congar, R., Maniquet, F., A Trichotomy of Attitudes for Decision-Making under Complete Ignorance. FUR 2008 XIII International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory, July 2-5, 2008, Barcelona, Spain.
Congar, R., Merlin V., A Characterization of the Maximin Rule in the Context of Voting. 114th Meeting of the American Mathematical Society, January 6-9, 2008, San Diego, CA.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Uncertainty in Natural Regeneration and the Robust Management of Environmental Resources. CREE 2007 17th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Resource and Environmental Economics Study Group, October 12-14, 2007, Ottawa, Canada.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Uncertainty in Natural Regeneration and the Robust Management of Environmental Resources. EAERE 2007 15th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 27-30, 2007, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Congar, R., Allocating permits proportional to current emissions is not Pareto Improving. AERE 2006 Environmental and Resource Economists 3rd World Congress, July 3-7, 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
Congar, R., Allocating permits proportional to current emissions is not Pareto Improving. AERNA 2006 2nd Conference of the Spanish-Portuguese Association of Resource and Environmental Economics, June 2-3, 2006, Lisbon, Portugal.
Congar, R., Allocating permits proportional to current emissions is not Pareto Improving. LGS4 4th International Conference Logic, Game Theory and Social Choice, June 22-24, 2005, Caen, France.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Managing environmental risks under scientific uncertainty and controversy: understanding the precautionary principle. EAERE’2003 12th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, June 28-30, 2003, Bilbao, Spain.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Managing environmental risks under scientific uncertainty and controversy: understanding the precautionary principle. International Conference on Risk and Uncertainty in Environmental and Resource Economics, 79th Seminar of the European Association of Agricultural Economists (EAAE), Wageningen, The Netherlands, June 5-7, 2002.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Consumption-pollution tradeoffs under hard uncertainty and irreversibility. ISIPTA’99 First International Symposium on Imprecise Probabilities and Their Applications, Gent, Belgium, 29 june-2 july, 1999.
Chevé, M., Congar, R., Consumption-pollution tradeoffs under hard uncertainty and irreversibility. 1st World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE and EAERE joint meeting), Venice, Italy, June 25-27,1998.
Teaching
Courses taught at the Université de Rouen (MA Program): Economie de l'environnement, Economie des ressources naturelles, Economie du Risque et de l'Incertain, Méthodologie de la recherche
Course taught at the University of Ottawa (MA Program): Mathematical and Statistical Methods (MA Math Review)
Course taught at Sciences Po Paris (undergraduate program) : Advanced Economics
Scientific stays
University of Ottawa, Department of Economics (Apr. 2008, Sept. 2008, Sept. 2009, Sept. 2010). Visiting researcher/professor
Center for Operation Research and Econometrics (CORE), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (May-June, 2006).Visiting researcher
Facultés Universitaires N.-D. de la Paix (University of Namur), Namur, Belgium (Aug. 2005). Visiting researcher
Contact information
Address: Department of Economics Université de Rouen 3, avenue Pasteur 76186 Rouen Cedex 1 FRANCE
