Environmental economics
Read more about our research in environmental economics.
Research
Our research in environmental economics covers environmental policy and regulation, environmental valuation and the provision of ecosystem services, food and agriculture, sustainability, energy markets and policy, climate change and pollution, and trade and the environment. Our research uses applied microeconometric methods, natural experiments, environmental valuation methods, and discrete-choice experiments.
Staff
- Ron Chan - energy markets, air pollution, climate change, trade and environment.
- Edward Manderson – applied energy economics, globalisation and the environment, impacts of climate change.
- Dan Rigby - choice experiments and best-worst scaling; economics of food safety, health and environment; academic malpractice and contract cheating.
- Ada Wossink - environmental economic tradeoffs, the evaluation of environmental policy, sustainability and the provision of ecosystem services.
- Linchuan Xu - development economics, environmental economics, macro development.
Applied seminar
Our regular applied seminar frequently brings environmental economists from the UK and internationally to Manchester to present their latest work.