The First World Congress of Environmental Economists received financial contributions from the European Commission (Directorate General XI and XII), the Fondazione Eni E. Mattei, the Camera di Commercio di Venezia.

Funds to support participation from LDC countries were provided by the EAERE, the Department for Research Cooperation of the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, and the Beijer Institute of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.

Travel fellowship to the World Congress were provided with the financial support of the California Sea Grant College System and the AERE contributing members: Industrial Economics, Inc., Mathtech, Inc., Natural Resource Damage Assessment, Inc., Hagler Bailly, Inc., Research Triangle Institute, Resources for the Future, Inc., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.

The visit to the Picasso exhibition was kindly offered by the Palazzo Grassi S.p.A.

Conference bags were provided by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht.