Environmental economics

Read more about our research in environmental economics.

Research

Research within our department covers several areas in environmental economics, including:

  • applied energy economics;
  • trade and environment;
  • energy markets;
  • climate change;
  • economics of food safety;
  • evaluation of environmental policy.

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

Regular presentations by researchers outside Manchester take place in our weekly applied seminar series.