Current Post: Professor

Room Number: ZICER 1.21

Telephone: 01603 593125 (+44 1603 593125)

Fax: 01603 593739 (+44 1603 593739)

Email: i.bateman@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Research Interests

The formation and valuation of preferences for non-market goods and service (environment, health, etc.); preference anomalies and behavioural economics; the 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.


Biography

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. My 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 my research therefore seeks to value the true cost of pollution and the true worth of environmental improvements. Recently completed research with colleagues at UEA and elsewhere includes: the ChREAM project which examines the effectiveness of policies to control agricultural pollution as well as the impact of such measures upon farm incomes; the AQUAMONEY project which looks at the recreational and ecological benefits of water improvement policies; and the VERHI project which seeks to guide policies concerned with environmental impacts upon child health. Details of all past and ongoing research can be obtained from the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at www.cserge.ac.uk. I am Director of CSERGE and also lead the Economics team for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment (NEA) funded by Defra, the UK National Assemblies and others (http://uknea.unep-wcmc.org). I am Principal Investigator of the NERC Valuing Nature Network (www.valuing-nature.net) 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. I am also Principal Investigator of the ESRC SEER Large Grant award which seeks to put the ecosystem services approach to decision analysis into practice (details on the CSERGE website).

Significant Publications

• Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Dupont, D. and Georgiou, S., (forthcoming) Procedural invariance testing of the one-and-one-half-bound dichotomous choice elicitation method, Review of Economics and Statistics, in press.
• Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Jones, A. P. and Jude, S. (2009) Reducing gains/loss asymmetry: A virtual reality choice experiment (VRCE) valuing land use change, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, in press, available online 21 February 2009, doi:10.1016/j.jeem.2008.05.003
• Bateman, I.J., Burgess, D., Hutchinson, W.G. and Matthews, D.I., (2008) Contrasting NOAA guidelines with Learning Design Contingent Valuation (LDCV): Preference learning versus coherent arbitrariness, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 55: 127-141. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2007.08.003
• Bateman, I.J., Dent, S., Peters, E., Slovic, P. and Starmer, C., (2007) The Affect Heuristic and the Attractiveness of Simple Gambles, Journal of Behavioral Decision Making, 20(4): 365-380.  DOI: 10.1002/bdm.558
• Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Loomes, G. and Sugden, R., (2007) Can ranking techniques elicit robust values? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34:49-66, DOI 10.1007/s11166-006-9003-4
• Bateman, I.J., Kahneman, D., Munro, A., Starmer, C. and Sugden, R. (2005) Testing competing models of loss aversion: An adversarial collaboration, Journal of Public Economics, 89(8): 1561-1580, doi:10.1016/j.jpubeco.2004.06.013. 
• Bateman, I.J. and A. Munro (2005) An experiment on risky choice amongst households, Economic Journal, 115(502), 176-189. DOI: 10.1111/j.0013-0133.2005.00986.x
• Bateman, I.J., M. Cole, P. Cooper, S. Georgiou, D. Hadley and G.L. Poe (2004) On visible choice sets and scope sensitivity, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 47, 71-93. DOI: 10.1016/S0095-0696(03)00057-3
• Bateman, I.J., A.A. Lovett, and J.S. Brainard (2003) Applied Environmental Economics: a GIS Approach to Cost-Benefit Analysis, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp335, ISBN 0-521-80956-8.

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