Current Post: Professorial Fellow

Room Number: ZICER 1.13

Telephone: 01603 592551 (+44 1603 592551)

Fax: 01603 593739 (+44 1603 593739)

Email: r.k.turner@uea.ac.uk

Publications: EPrints Digital Repository

Research Interests

Environmental and ecological economics; ecosystem services; wetland valuation and management; coastal zone manangement, and climate change.


Biography

Since the mid 1970s I have sought to develop and pioneer the interface between environmental/ecological economics and the natural sciences, in the context of a range of environmental management situations. This work began with a focus on waste management and was extended into pollution control, ecosystem conservation and management and coastal/catchment management. Adaptation strategies for the mitigation of the effects of environmental change (including climate change) has also been a particular focus for my work. I have helped establish and have worked in two ESRC funded research centres as research fellow, executive director and director (The Public Sector Economics Research Centre, Leicester University and East Anglia 1976-1979; CSERGE 1991-2007). CSERGE's research programme from 2006 onwards is built around several major research projects on catchment management (ESRC funded) and ecosystem services valuation (Leverhulm Foundation funded) and coastal zone management (EU funded). In the mid 1980s I coordinated an ESRC programme to help build environmental economics research capacity in the UK. I have also sought to make my research as policy relevant as possible and to that end I have played an active role in the policy process itself.

I was Chairman of the Broads Authority and served on the East of England Regional Assembly until 2007. I also served on the East of England Sustainable Development Round Table, DEFRA's Flood Defence and Coastal Protection R and D panel and its Estuaries Research Advisory Group. I previously served on the Board of the National Rivers Authority, and the UK Environment Agency's Anglian Region Environment Protection Advisory Committee and was a member of the UK Climate Change impacts Review Group. From 1995-1999, I was Chairman of the Office of Science and Technology's Foresight Panel on Natural Resources and the Environment. In 1991 I was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and in 1996 an honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute for Water and Environmental Management. In early 2000 I was awarded a CBE for my services to sustainable development. I have been an economic consultant and/or special advisor to a number of UK and overseas Government committees, departments, international and national agencies since the 1970s. I sit on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals and am Jt Chief Editor of Environmental and Resource Economics. In 2012 I was appointed as Co-Chair of the UK National Ecosystem Assessment Expert Panel.
 

Significant Publications

• Strassburg, B., Turner, R.K., Fisher, B., Schaeffer, R. and Lovett, A. (2009) Reducing emissions from deforestation- The "combined incentives" mechanism and empirical simulations. Global Environmental Change, 19: 265-278.
• Fisher, B., Turner, R.K. and Morling, P. (2009) Defining and classifying ecosystem services. Ecological Economics, 68: 643-653.
• Turner, R.K. (2007) Limits to CBA in UK and European environmental policy: retrospects and future prospects. Environmental and Resource Economics 37(1), 253-269. DOI: 10.1007/s10640-007-9119-2  

• Turner, R.K., Bateman, I.J., Georgiou, S., Jones, I., Langford, I.H., Matias, N. and Subramanian, L. (2004) An Ecological economics approach to the management of a multi-purpose coastal wetland, Regional Environmental Change, 4: 86-99, Doi: 1007/510113-004-0075-x. 

• Turner, R.K., Paavola, J., Cooper, P., Forber, S., Jessamy, V. and Georgiou, S. (2003) Valuing nature: Lessons learned and future research directions, Ecological economics, 46: 493-510, Doi: 10.1016/50921-8009(03)00189-7. 

• Balmford, A., Bruner, A., Cooper, P., Costanza, R., Forber, S., Green, R., Jenkins, M., Jefferiss, P., Jessamy, V., Madden, J., Munroe, K., Myers, N., Naeem, S., Paavola, J., Rayment, M., Rosends, S., Roughgarden, J., Trumper, K. and Turner, R.K. (2002) Economic reasons for conserving wild nature, Science 297: 950-953. DOI: 10.1126/science.1073947 

• Pearce, D.W. and Turner, R.K. (1990) Economics of Natural Resources and the Environment, John Hopkins University Press, Balitmore, Maryland.

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