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David Pearce is Professor of Environmental Economics at UCL. In
the summer 2000 Queen's Honours List he was awarded the O.B.E for
services to sustainable development. He has recently been awarded an
Honorary Doctorate of Science at the University of East Anglia. He is
currently working on a monograph on the UK experience with market based instruments
(with Dieter Helm of New College, Oxford) and a major textbook on
development and environment.
E-mail: d.pearce@ucl.ac.uk
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Timothy Swanson is professor of Law & Economics at UCL with teaching
responsibilities on MSc in Environmental and Resource Economics and MSc
in Public Policy. His research interests focus on the areas of Law &
Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, Growth and Development,
Regulation.
E-mail: tim.swanson@ucl.ac.uk
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Research Fellows (in
alphabetical order)
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Camille Bann is a research fellow at CSERGE and a PhD candidate in
the UCL Economics department. Camille has many years of work experience
in developing countries, particularly in Southeast Asia (Cambodia, Viet
Nam and Malaysia) working withGovernments, NGOs and International
Organisations. Her particular field ofinterest is the economic valuation
of natural resources (tropical forest,mangroves and coral reefs). She has
also designed and implemented a number of training workshops in CBA and
the valuation of non-marketed goods andservices.
E-mail: cabann@aol.com
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Ekin Birol is a research fellow at CSERGE and a PhD student in
the Department of Economics, UCL. Her research interests are environmental
and resource economics; economic development and growth; economics of
innovation and technology; and microeconomic theory. Ekin’s work
focuses principally on issues related to agricultural growth, development
and policy. Projects she is currently working on include evaluating the
use of public subsidies to farmers growing landraces and old cultivars in
Finland, and the development of in situ conservation of agricultural
biodiversity on-farm in Hungary. Ekin is also teaching graduate classes in
environmental economics at UCL’s Department of Economics.
E-mail: e.birol@ucl.ac.uk
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Brett Day is a senior research fellow at CSERGE and lectures on the
undergraduate environmental economics course at University College
London. Brett’s principal research interest is in the field of non-market
valuation through the use of expressed and revealed preference
techniques. Much of his current research focuses on refining the theoretical
basis of non-market valuation and advancing the econometric techniques
used in the analysis of valuation data sets. This subject forms the core
of his PhD research. His wider research interests include forest
economics, on which he has prepared reports for both the World Bank and
the World Commission for Forests and Sustainable Development, and
ecotourism where he has worked extensively in South Africa and also
undertaken projects in Ethiopia and Kenya.
E-mail: brett.day@ucl.ac.uk
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Ben Groom is a research fellow at the Centre for Social and
Economic Research for the Global Environment (CSERGE) and has recently
completed the first year of his Ph.D. at the Department of Economics at
University College London (UCL). His research interests are broadly
environmental and resource economics, in particular water resources. He
is currently a member of the CSERGE water resources research group, which
focuses on economic aspects of water resource management. His main
experience has been in Southern African and eastern bloc countries. He
has worked as a water economist as part of the Overseas Development
Institute Fellowship scheme for the Government of the Republic of
Namibia, as a research assistant for the Natal Parks Board in South
Africa, and as a consultant to the World Bank in Kosovo. His current work
is for the EU funded Cyprus Integrated Water Management project, papers
from which have been presented at the Cyprus Water Resources Symposium of
September 2000 and the Annual conference of the European Association of
Environmental and Resource Economists of June 2001.
E-mail: uctpben@ucl.ac.uk
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Dr. Andreas
Kontoleon a Lecturer
at the Department of Land Economy at the University of Cambridge (since
Fall 2003) and a Research Fellow at the CSERGE-Economics (since 1998). His
main research interests focus on issues of applied welfare economics, on economic
valuation of natural and cultural resources and philosophical issues in
environmental economics. He has taught graduate classes in Environmental
Economics at UCL as well as graduate micro-econometrics at the University
of Cambridge. He has worked for numerous institutions including the
European Commission, the China Council for International Cooperation on
the Environment and Development, and the World Bank and has participated
in a wide range of environmental valuation projects that primarily
investigated the nature and the magnitude of so called non-use values.
These include studies on non-use values for wildlife, aquatic ecosystems
and built cultural heritage.
E-mail: a.kontoleon@ucl.ac.uk
Web-Site: http://www.cserge.ucl.ac.uk/Kontoleon.html
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Dr. Phoebe Koundouri (PHD, MSC,
MPHIL, BA) is a Lecturer in the Department of Economics, University of
Reading, UK and a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Economics,
University College London, UK. She is also a Senior Research Fellow in
the Department of Economics, University College London and the
Co-ordinator of the research group on water economics in CSERGE/Economics
(Centre for Social and Economic Research for the Global Environment),
University College London. She is the organiser of the seminar series on
the “Environmental and Resource Economics'' at the Department of
Economics, University College London. In the past she was an economics
teaching fellow in various colleges of the University of Cambridge and a
research associated in the Department of Applied Economics, University of
Cambridge and Cambridge Econometrics. Her PhD thesis on “Three Approaches
to Measuring Natural Resource Scarcity: Theory and Application to
Groundwater'' was awarded by the Faculty of Economics and Politics,
University of Cambridge in 2000. She has published in the area of
environmental economics and in the broader area of theoretical and
applied microeconomics. She has contributed in a number of edited
academic volumes on groundwater economics and she has co-authored a book
on “Methodology for Sustainable Integrated Water Management''. In 2000,
she has organised the “International Symposium on Water Resource
Management - Efficiency, Equity and Policy'', which gathered all leading
water economists of the world. Moreover, she has organised a number of
multidisciplinary international workshops on integrated water management
and has been a member of the organising committee of the annual
conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource
Economics. She has presented papers in many academic conferences focusing
on environmental economics, microeconomics and econometrics. She has
worked for the European Commission as a water expert and she has
co-ordinated and participated in a number of EC funded research projects
on integrated water management. She has also worked as an academic
consultant for the World Health Organisation (WHO), the International
Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) and the World Bank.
E-mail: p.koundouri@reading.ac.uk
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Wolf Krug is a research fellow at CSERGE and is currently completing his
Ph.D. on the recreational value of protected areas in Namibia at the
Department of Economics at University College London. His research
interests include: economic and financial issues of biodiversity
conservation, demand for nature tourism, pricing of game parks, private
sector investments in conservation, and markets for wildlife resources in
Africa. Wolf collaborates with the Namibian Ministry of Environment and
Tourism and is currently working on a review of the private supply of
protected land in southern Africa for the OECD.
E-mail: w.krug@ucl.ac.uk
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David Maddison is an Associate Lecturer at UCL and an Assistant
Professor at the University of Hamburg. His current research interests
include (i) the amenity value of climate and climate change, (ii)
quantifying and valuing the health impacts of air pollution (iii)
managing historical landscapes threatened by infrastructure developments
and (iv) cultural economics. He is director of the Centre for Cultural
Economics and Management (CCEM). Work currently underway includes an
empirical study of links between air pollution and mortality for
Santiago, a study of visitor congestion in the British Museum and a
hedonic analysis of the impacts of the Mafia on economic welfare in
Italy.
E-mail: d.maddison@ucl.ac.uk or maddison@dkrz.de
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Charles
Palmer is a
research fellow at CSERGE, joining in March 2001 after completing his
Masters in Environmental and Resource Economics at UCL in 2000. He has
been working with Professor Pearce on environmental expenditure on behalf
of the Institute for Fiscal Studies and is currently working on a
contingent valuation study to measure the disamenity value of electricity
pylons on both urban and rural landscapes. Charlie’s dissertation on the
extent and causes of illegal logging in Indonesia reflects his interests
in the natural world following his first degree in biology from Oxford,
and has been turned into a CSERGE Working Paper.
E-mail: c.palmer@ucl.ac.uk
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Marilena Pollicino is doing her second Ph.D at UCL, between the
Institute of Archaeology and the Department of Economics on non-market
valuation methods for assessing policy options and managing cultural
assets. She collaborates with the CCEM (Centre of Cultural Economics and
Management), and also with the Department of Economics, Laboratory of
Political Economy F.Caffe at the University of Messina in Italy.
E-mail: m.pollicino@ucl.ac.uk
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Roger
Salmons is a
Senior Research Fellow at CSERGE. His main research interests
relate to the design and evaluation of environmental policy instruments,
with particular emphasis on permit trading schemes and negotiated
agreements. He has acted as an advisor to DETR and to the
Environment Agency on the application of permit trading in a number of
policy areas, and was a member of one of the Advisory Groups that worked
on the design of the UK greenhouse gas emissions trading scheme. He
is currently working on a review for the OECD of the potential for
applying permit trading in the area of solid waste management.
Prior to joining CSERGE, he gained extensive experience of analysis and
planning in the commercial sector with one of UK’s leading retailers.
E-mail: r.salmons@ucl.ac.uk
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CSERGE
Administration
Visiting Fellows
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Dr. Mitsuyasu Yabe is a visiting scholar at CSERGE as of March 2001. He
is a senior researcher at the Policy Research Institute, Ministry of
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (PRIMAFF) in Japan. His main research
has been (1) economic valuation of non-market goods (biodiversity,
amenity, groundwater, and municipal waste, etc.), (2) the theoretical
analysis of agro-environmental policy and (3) farm management analysis
for sustainable agriculture. Ongoing research projects include public
acceptance of GMOs, recycle of organic waste, and multi-functionality of
agriculture in Japan and Asian countries. He has also worked as an expert
on multi-functionality of agriculture for the OECD and ASEAN-Japan
Project.
E-mail: m.yabe@ucl.ac.uk
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Jeremy Warford is
Visiting Professor in Environmental Economics. He has a PhD in economics
from the University of Manchester, and has spent most of his career in
international development, primarily with the World Bank, where his last
position was Senior Adviser in the Environment Department. Since leaving
the World Bank he has had consulting assignments with numerous
development institutions, including the World Bank, Asian Development
Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, DFID, UNIDO, Japan International
Cooperation Agency, Japan Bank for International Cooperation, Japan
Ministry of Environment, and the China Council for International
Co-operation on Environment and Development (CCICED). He is also a Board
member of the International Institute for Environment and Development
(IIED).
E-mail: jeremywarford@cs.com
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Dong
Hong is a
visiting scholar at CSERGE-Economics till October 2003. She has a PhD in
economics and is a lecturer in the University of International Business
and Economics (UIBE) in P.R.China. Her main research has been on trade
and environment,
agro-environmental policy, international trade theory, and open economy
and macroeconomics. She also works as an academic fellow fro the China
Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development
(CCICED).
E-mail: dh_prc@hotmail.com
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Marianne Penker is a visiting
scholar at CSERGE-Economics till end of July 2003. She has a PhD in
agricultural economics and is a lecturer at the University of
Agricultural Sciences Vienna (BOKU) in Austria. She also teaches at the
Free University of Bozen - Bolzano in Italy. Her work has focussed on
rural development, economics of biodiversity and nature conservation,
impacts of economic activities and institutions on landscape development,
linking economic development and biodiversity preservation, and
agri-environmental policies.
E-mail: uctpmap@ucl.ac.uk
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