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Susana Mourato
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Susana is professor in Environmental Economics at the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).
She is an environmental economist and an expert in the application of economic valuation techniques to the measurement of environmental change.
Current projects include a large international investigation of the impacts of climate change on cultural heritage.
Background
Susana joined LSE in 2008, after ten years at Imperial College London. She is also Visiting Reader at Imperial College London, Honorary Senior Fellow at CSERGE (University of East Anglia) and a member of several expert panels on environmental valuation for UK government and industry.
Susana has worked on more than 45 research projects and consultancies for research councils, government, industry, charities and international organisations.
Research interests
- Valuing natural wealth and creating markets for ecosystem services;
- Perceptions and preferences for low-carbon energy technologies;
- Environmental valuation, methods and applications;
- Life satisfaction and the environment.
2015
Monitoring local well-being in environmental interventions: a consideration of practical trade-offs
Paper considers the practical trade-offs policy makers and practitioners must navigate when utilizing the concept of well-being in environmental interventions. read more »
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services: A Review of Frameworks
Focusing on the most impoverished populations, we critically review and synthesise key themes from dominant frameworks for assessing the relationship between well-being and ecosystem services in developing countries. This requires … read more »
2013
An experimental investigation of the impacts of persuasion and information acquisition of non-use values for climate change adaptation
Focusing on the estimation of WTP for climate change adaptation projects in vulnerable areas around the world, this study explores the divergence between economic non-use values … read more »
2012
Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes
We determine the effects of various management restrictions on adoption rates of marine PES schemes. Choice experiments are used in order to determine how fisher participation … read more »
2011
Income diversification, social capital and their potential role in uptake of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes: a study from a Tanzanian fishing community
We analyse the role of risk mitigating strategies upon the willingness to adopt a marine PES scheme in fishing households. More specifically we focus on the … read more »
2010
Public attitudes towards and demand for hydrogen and fuel cell vehicles: A review of the evidence and methodological implications
It is now widely recognized that effective communication and demand-side policies for alternative energy require sound knowledge of preferences and determinants of demand of the public and consumers. To … read more »
Land use change and availability of ecosystem services in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
The importance of quantifying existing ecosystem services, assessing the impacts of various land use decisions and ultimately evaluating the overall costs and benefits of different land use patterns having … read more »
2009
Investigating the potential for marine resource protection through environmental service markets: an exploratory study from La Paz Mexico
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have long been advocated as effective management vehicles for promoting long-term conservation of marine resources and biodiversity. However MPAs are failing in their conservation goals, … read more »
2008
Environmental cost-benefit analysis
Environmental cost-benefit analysis, or CBA, refers to the economic appraisal of policies and projects that have the deliberate aim of improving the provision of environmental services or actions that … read more »
2011
Susana Mourato, Steve Gibbons, Giles Atkinson, George MacKerron, Guilherme Resende and Murray Collins contribute to UK National Ecosystem Assessment, published today
Staff, students and members of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment have contributed to this report, which provides an analysis of the UK's natural environment in terms of the benefits it provides to society and continuing economic prosperity. read more »
2010
LSE researchers launch mobile app to 'map' happiness
'Mappiness' aims to better understand how feelings are affected by a person's immediate environment. National happiness levels are updated in real time, and over 800,000 responses have already been recorded. read more »
2009
Manuel Pinho - A New Energy Policy for Portugal
In 2005, Portugal adopted a new energy policy, promoting renewable energy, improving energy efficiency and reducing external dependency. The main results so far have been extremely positive and will lead … read more »
