Environmental Humanities
What are the main obstacles to achieving green, circular economies? How can human decision-making at the micro and macro levels be incentivized towards conserving biodiversity? What are the main cognitive and sociological lessons that we can glean from animal behaviour and sociality? Are there valuable lessons to be learned from historical practices in pastoralist and low-intensity farming? How can we design markets for biodiversity offsets in the UK, focusing on issues such as market scale and the choice of trading metric? What is the form of ecological-economic models that can help us design agri-environmental policy, particularly for woodland creation? Does bird song have measurable and quantifiable beneficial impacts on mental wellbeing? Spatial models of land use change focused on net zero and biodiversity recovery in terms of the implications for livestock diseases (bovine tb and bluetongue virus).
How can we secure international cooperation in the North Atlantic over plastics pollution? What are the effects of social norms on the environmental behaviours of households across the world?
Associated SIG: Environmental and One Health Economics (Contacts: Nick Hanley, Kat Simpson)