Current Post: Reader

Room Number: ZICER 1.20

Telephone: 01603 591413 (+44 1603 591413 )

Fax: 01603 591327 (+44 1603 591327)

Email: brett.day@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Posts of Special Responsibility:

• Course Director, MSc Environmental Sciences

Research Interests

Individual economic decision-making; non-market valuation; market demand modelling; microeconometrics

Biography

Having graduated from Cambridge University with a degree in Biological Anthropology in 1990, I spent some years travelling the globe working as a part-time cartoonist and occasional archaeologist before finally settling into a well-paid management consultancy job at the Stock Exchange in the City of London. In 1995, a chance encounter with Professor David Pearce precipitated a radical change of direction. Inspired by his pragmatic yet inspirational vision of how to tackle the mounting problems of environmental degradation, I enrolled on the MSc programme in Environmental and Resource Economics at University College London. Sufficiently impressed by my academic performance, David took me on in his research centre at UCL and over the next few years, I undertook a host of international projects, working for institutions like the World Bank and Intergovernmental Panel On Forests and undertaking environmental economics projects examining such varied problems as tourism in South African game parks, rice production in Chinese paddy fields and hydropower development in Ethiopia. In 1999, I started working part-time towards a PhD in Economics at UCL and shortly after that was persuaded by Professor Ian Bateman to take up a Senior Research Associate position at UEA. Here I continued to develop my interests in the non-market valuation of the environment and, under the tutelage of Professors Graham Loomes and Bob Sugden, was introduced to the fascinating field of experimental economics. In 2004, I both completed my PhD and made the step up to faculty. I now lecture in environmental economics to undergraduates and postgraduates in the School of Environmental Sciences, my efforts being rewarded with a UEA Excellence in Teaching Award in 2006. My research continues across a number of fronts, each directed at the goal of providing policy-makers with the tools and the evidence to make decisions that can help save the environment from and for ourselves.

Significant Publications

• Day, B.H., and J-L. Pinto Prades (2010). Ordering effects in choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, in press.
• Day, B.H., and G. Loomes (2010). Conflicting violations of choice and where they may lead us. Theory and Decision, 68(1-2), 233-242. DOI 10.1007/s11238-009-9139-1
• Bateman, I.J., B.H. Day, D. Dupont and S. Georgiou (2009). Procedural invariance testing of the one-and-one-half-bound dichotomous choice elicitation method. Review of Economics and Statistics, 91(4), 806-820. DOI: 10.1162/rest.91.4.806
• Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Jones, A.P., Jude, S. (2009). Reducing gain-loss asymmetry: A virtual reality choice experiment valuing land use change. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 58, 106-118. DOI: 10.1016/j.jeem.2008.05.003
• Bateman, I.J., Day, B.H., Loomes, G., Sugden, R. (2007). Can ranking techniques elicit robust values? Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34(1), 49-66. DOI: 10.1007/s11166-006-9003-4
• Day, B. H., I. J. Bateman and I. R. Lake (2007). Beyond implicit prices: Recovering theoretically consistent and transferable values for noise avoidance from a hedonic property price model, Environmental and Resource Economics, 37(1), 211-232. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9121-8
• Day, B. H., (2007). Distribution-free estimation with interval-censored contingent valuation data: Troubles with Turnbull?, Environmental and Resource Economics, 37(4), 777-795. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-006-9061-8
• Bateman, I. J., B. H. Day, S. Georgiou and I. R. Lake (2006). The aggregation of environmental benefit values: Welfare measures, distance decay and total WTP, Ecological Economics, 60(2), pp 450-460. DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2006.04.003

Page last updated 25 October 2011