Susana Mourato

Susana is an environmental economist with over 20 years of professional experience. She joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2008, having previously worked at Imperial College London. Much of her research has sought to develop, test and apply economic techniques to the valuation of a wide range of environmental, health and social impacts related to ecosystem service loss, landscape change, proximity to nature, air and water pollution, climate change, introduction of new energy technologies, and cultural heritage change. More recently, she has undertaken research on the links between subjective well-being and the natural environment. Susana has over 70 scientific publications, including papers in leading journals of her field (J. Environmental Economics & Management, Environmental & Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Environment & Development Economics, Environment & Planning A, Urban Studies, Energy Policy)and 3 books. She has worked on more than 50 research projects and consultancies for research councils, governments, industry, charities and international organisations. She currently leads the economic analysis work package of Climate for Culture, a large interdisciplinary FP7 EU project, and recently led the economic analysis of cultural services for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment. She is Visiting Reader at Imperial College London, Honorary Senior Fellow at CSERGE (University of East Anglia), a member of Defra's Environmental Economics Academic Panel and co-leader of the Resource Security research stream at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.

• Economic valuation: methodological developments and applications to environment, health, sports, crime and cultural heritage

• Ecosystem services: measurement, valuation and market-based conservation

• Life satisfaction and the environment: exploring links between subjective well-being and the environment

• Bio-security risks: evaluating landscape, ecological and health impacts of potential threats from pests, diseases and invasive pathogens

• Low-energy technologies: measuring preferences and behavioural change in a low-carbon economy

Selected recent publications:

• Cranford, M, and Mourato, S. (2011) Community Conservation and a Two-Stage Approach to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Ecological Economics

• Atkinson, G., Morse-Jones, S., Mourato, S. and Provins, A. (2011) When to Take No for an Answer? Using Entreaties to Reduce Protest Zeros in Contingent Valuation Surveys. Environmental and Resource Economics

• Hargreaves-Allen, V., Mourato, S. and Milner Gulland, E.J. (2011) A Global Evaluation of Coral Reef Management Performance: Are MPAs Producing Conservation and Socio-Economic Improvements? Environmental Management 47: 684-700.

• Black, J., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Sotherton, N. and Mourato, S. (2010) Valuing Visitor Preferences for Complex Environmental Goods: Landscape and Biodiversity in the North Pennines. Environmental Conservation 37 (2): 136 -146.

• Ditt, E.H., Mourato, S., Ghazoul, J. and Knight, J.D. (2010) Forest Conversion and Provision of Ecosystem Services in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Land Degradation & Development 21: 591–603.

• MacKerron, G. and Mourato, S. (2009) Life Satisfaction and Air Quality in London. Ecological Economics 68: 1441-1453.

• Nicholson, E., Mace, G.M., Armsworth, P.R., Atkinson, G., Buckle, S., Clements, T., Ewers, R.M., Fa, J.E., Gardner, T.A., Gibbons, J., Grenyer, R., Metcalfe, R., Mourato, S., Muûls, M., Osborn, D., Peck, L., Reuman, D.C., Watson, C., Milner-Gulland E.J. (2009) Priority Research Areas for Ecosystem Services in a Changing World. Journal of Applied Ecology 46 (6): 1139-1144.

• Atkinson, G. and Mourato, S. (2008) Environmental Cost-Benefit Analysis. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33: 317-344.

• Atkinson, G., Mourato, S. and Szymanski, S. (2008) Are We Willing to Pay Enough to "Back the Bid"? Valuing the Intangible Impacts of London's Bid to Host the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. Urban Studies. 45(2): 419-444.

• O'Garra, T. and Mourato, S. (2007) Preferences for Hydrogen Buses: Comparing Interval Data, OLS and Quantile Regression Approaches, Environmental and Resource Economics 36(4): 389-411.

• Pearce, D., Atkinson, G. and Mourato, S. (2006) Cost Benefit Analysis and the Environment: Recent Developments. OECD, Paris.

• Atkinson, G., Healey, A. and Mourato, S. (2005) Valuing Violent Crime: A Stated Preference Approach. Oxford Economic Papers 57(4): 559-585.

• Ready, R., Navrud, S., Day, B., Dubourg, R., Machado, F., Mourato, S., Spanninks, F. and Rodriquez, M. (2004) Benefit Transfer in Europe: How Reliable Are Transfers Between Countries? Environmental and Resource Economics 29: 67-82.

• Mourato, S., Saynor, B and Hart, D. (2004) Greening London's Black Cabs: A Study of Driver's Preferences for Fuel Cell Taxis. Energy Policy 32: 685-695.
• Foster, V. and Mourato, S. (2003) Elicitation Format and Sensitivity to Scope: Do Contingent Valuation and Choice Experiments Give the Same Results? Environmental and Resource Economics 24: 141-160.

• Barton, D. and Mourato, S. (2003) Transferring the Benefits of Avoided Health Effects from Water Pollution Between Portugal and Costa Rica. Environment and Development Economics 8: 351-371.

• Foster, V. and Mourato, S. (2002) Testing for Consistency in Contingent Ranking Experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 44: 309-328.

• Hanley, N., Mourato, S. and Wright, R. (2001) Choice Modelling Approaches: A Superior Alternative for Environmental Valuation? Journal of Economic Surveys 15, 433-460.

• Atkinson, G., Machado, F. and Mourato, S. (2000) Balancing Principles of Environmental Equity. Environment and Planning A 32: 1791-1806