Register of Research Interests
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18 individuals in this set. To change your details in this listing or remove yourself, email econ-network@bris.ac.uk .
Foday Yaya Drammeh
Bournemouth University (fdrammeh@bournemouth.ac.uk)Details entered 27/11/2006
Research Interests:
- Present: Small scale and medium tourism enterprises in developing countries and their role in sustainable tourism devlopment, with specific objectives of understanding external and internal drivers of sustainability, and in particular the economic drivers and their imapct on sustainable tourism.
Mr Tim Palazon
University of Wales Institute Cardiff (tpalazon@uwic.ac.uk)Details entered 27/11/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Adult Continuing Education
- Present: Adult Continuing Education, Social Enterprise, Social Inclusion
- Future: Adult Continuing Education, Social Enterprise, Social Inclusion
Offering: Participation in collaborative research projects
Graham Dawson
Open University (g.dawson@open.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 21/11/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Unemployment and inflation; feminist economics; methodolgy of economics
- Present: Climate change policy in dynamic markets; responsibility, justice and efficiency in the allocation of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; ethical, green or sustsinable investment
- Future: Climate change policy in dynamic markets; responsibility, justice and efficiency in the allocation of greenhouse gas emission reduction targets; ethical, green or sustsinable investment
Offering: Political philosophy; ethics; comparative economic theory - neoclassical, Austrian and institutionalist economics
Noel Russell
University of Manchester (noel.russell@manchester.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Agri-environmental policy; land use modelling
- Present: Sustainable intensification in agriculture; Biodiversity and agricultural productivity; Economic incentives for sustainable food production.
- Future: Economic modelling of sustainable agro-ecosystems; Incentive structures to promote sustainable food security.
Offering: Experience in analysis and modelling of agro-ecological processes and agri-environmental policy systems; Multi-disciplinary perspective; Enthusiasm for investigating sustainable food production.
Dr Deborah Johnston
School of Oriental and African Studies (Dj3@soas.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests: growth and development generally, with a specific interest in the role of education and labour markets in the development process.
Odile Poulsen
University of East Anglia (o.poulsen@uea.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Economic Growth
- Present: economic growth, social capital, environmental economics
- Future: economic growth, social capital, environmental economics
Offering: I can offer good analytical skills needed to model interesting problems.
Rebecca Clark
University of Oxford (clarkbecs@gmail.com)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: use of soil and water conservation measures by smallholder farmers in Sri Lanka: on-site impacts, role of social and economic factors in determining measures used. Investment appraisal and application of qualitative research methods such as decision tree modelling and repertory grid technique.
- Present: Household responses to groundwater level decline in India
- Future: Open to suggestions (worldwide)
Offering: Development and management of research projects, reviewing literature, experience of field research in developing countries, analysis of quantitative and qualitative primary data, policy analysis, writing reports and papers for publication, training
Dr P.B. Anand
University of Bradford (p.b.anand@bradford.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Sustainable cities, urban environmental management
- Present: Water governance, issues in resolution of river water disputes, poverty and economics of water resources, global public goods, governance and corruption, collective action and instituions
- Future: environmental governance, links between sustainability and identity, ethics
Offering: Where I can contribute in the areas of water governance and institutions based on my work on India, Ethiopia and Tajikistan
Dr Dilek Demirbas
University of Northumbria at Newcastle (Dilek.Demirbas@unn.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Public Choice, Time Series Studies, Development Economics and Economic Growth
- Present: Sustainable Development, Institutional Economy, SMEs, Logit Models
- Future: Renewable Energy, Sustainable Development, SMEs
Offering: Knowledge on Quantitative methods, Econometrics(Time Series Studies, Logit-Tobit Models), Development Economics,Economic Growth, Regional Economics, SMEs
Antonio David
University of Essex (davida@essex.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Present: Development Economics, International Capital Flows, Macroeconomics, Economic History
- Future: Development Economics, International Capital Flows, Macroeconomics, Economic History
Dr Mike Christie
University of Wales, Aberystwyth (mec@aber.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Environmental valuation (TCM, CV, CE), Agri-environmental schemes, Biodiversity, Countryside recreation, Geological heritage. Economic impact assessment.
- Present: Environmental valuation (TCM, CV, CE), Agri-environmental schemes, Biodiversity, Countryside recreation, Geological heritage. Economic impact assessment.
- Future: Environmental valuation (TCM, CV, CE), Agri-environmental schemes, Biodiversity, Countryside recreation, Geological heritage. Economic impact assessment.
Offering: Expertise in environmental valuation and economic impact. A team of surveyors (SERS Ltd) who specialise in environmental economic data collection.
Brian Garrod
University of Wales, Aberystwyth (bgg:aber.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Economics of sustainable development, particularly as applied to tourism Environmental economics, including pollution control, contingent valuation Economics of fisheries exploitation
- Present: Sustainable tourism, particularly the development of measurement tools Development of the concept of ecotourism Nature tourism, especially whale watching Sustainability and cultural heritage, particularly in respect managing visitors Visitor education and interpretation Voluntary codes of conduct for sustainable tourism and recreation The Delphi technique Content analysis
- Future: I am keen on further developing my work in experimental and participatory approaches to decision making, including the use of the Delphi technique in problem solving, investigating the potential for using visual and sensory data in decision making, and the development of voluntary (as opposed to regulatory) responses.
Offering: Specialism in tourism and recreation, with a particular emphasis on the economic aspects Experience of conducting 'softer' research methods, such as the Delphi technique and content analysis Some quantitative skills Good links with the tourism/recreation research community Location in Wales
Jeffery Round
University of Warwick (J.I.Round@warwick.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Social accounting matrices; informal sector in Ghana
- Present: Social accounting matrices; development policy modelling
- Future: Social accounting matrices; development policy modelling
Peter Romilly
University of Abertay Dundee (p.romilly@tay.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Transport and the environment
- Present: Climate change and its economic impacts
- Future: Climate change and its economic impacts
Nick Hanley
University of Stirling (n.d.hanley@stir.ac.uk) (Web Link)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests: Environmental economics
Seeking: interesting case studies
Offering: 19 years experience in teaching environmental economics
Dr Caterina De Lucia
University of York (cdl103@york.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Environmental Quality and Economic Growth analysis Trade and Development
- Present: Environmental Regulation in the field of air pollution for Accession Countries and the EU Computable General Equilibrium in the field of Environmental policy, trade and development
- Future: Dinamycs of Environmental policies, trade and development in the context of an enlarged Europe and developing countries Environmental Kuznets Curve at microeconomic scale analysis Environmental valuation
Offering: I am keen to any collaboration in any area of research (even outside my main research interests). I strongly believe in sharing the common knowledge.
Mr Clive George
University of Manchester (clive.george@man.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Environmental assessment; strategic environmental assessment; institutional strengthening for environmental management in developing countries and countries in transition; environmental management systems; quality management; total quality management.
- Present: Integrated impact assessment (economic/social/environmental); sustainability impact assessment; trade impact assessment; regulatory impact assessment; evaluation of national sustainable development strategies (developing and transitional countries).
- Future: Integrated impact assessment (economic/social/environmental); sustainability impact assessment; trade impact assessment; regulatory impact assessment; evaluation of national sustainable development strategies (developing and transitional countries).
Offering: integration of non-economic perspectives with economic analysis of development.
Dr Serban Scrieciu
University of Manchester (serban.scrieciu@manchester.ac.uk)Details entered 23/10/2005
Research Interests:
- Past: Macroeconomics, finance, economics of transition
- Present: economic growth, trade and sustainable development, applied agricultural economics, economics of transition, ecological and environmental economics
- Future: growth and poverty in transition economies, methodologies for assessing sustainable development impacts
Offering: high-quality research
