Ian Bateman
Ian Bateman
Personal Information
- Name
- Ian Bateman
- Bio
Ian Bateman is a Professor at the University of East Anglia.
He is Director of CSERGE and leads the economics team for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. See journal article co-authored by Ian in the publications section.
Ian is the principal investigator of the Valuing Nature Network which seeks to bring together natural scientists, economists, social scientists, the policy community and business leaders to provide an integrated basis for environmental decision making.
Ian is also principal investigator of the Social and Environmental Economic Research (SEER) into Multi-Objective Land Use Decision Making project, which seeks to put the ecosystem services approach to decision analysis into practice.
Research areas
While it is human economic activity which has resulted in the major global environmental problems facing present and (to a greater extent) future generations, it is clear that reform of that economic activity provides the only viable solution to such problems.
Ian's interests lie in attempting to achieve this reform by bringing the environment into everyday decision making whether at the highest level, by informing government policy, or at the supermarket checkout by ensuring that prices reflect the true resource costs of production.
Much of his research seeks to value the true cost of pollution and the true worth of environmental improvements.
Ian's research interests include:
- formation and valuation of preferences for non-market goods and service (environment, health, etc.)
- preference anomalies and behavioural economics
- application of geographical information systems
- virtual reality and experimental techniques to integrated environmental economic modelling and valuation
- working with policy makers to address real world resource management issues.
CONTACT
email: i.bateman@uea.ac.uk
tel: 01603 593 125
homepage: http://www.uea.ac.uk/env/people/facstaff/batemani
- Position
- Expert