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.

Susana is Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of Graduate Studies 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:

• Tanya O'Garra, Susana Mourato. Are we willing to give what it takes? Willingness to pay for climate change adaptation in developing countries. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2015; 1 DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2015.1100560

• MacKerron, G. and Mourato, S. (2013) Happiness is Greater in Natural Environments. Global Environmental Change, 23 (5). pp. 992-1000. ISSN 0959-3780

• Gibbons, S., Mourato, S. and Resende, G. (2013) The Amenity Value of English Nature: A Hedonic Price Approach. Environmental & Resource Economics, 57 (2). pp. 175-196. ISSN 0924-6460

• Fimereli, E. and Mourato, S. (2013) Assessing the Effect of Energy Technology Labels on Preferences. Journal of Environmental Economics & Policy, 2 (3). pp. 245-265

• Atkinson, G., Bateman, I. and Mourato, S. (2012) Recent Advances in the Valuation of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity. Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28 (1): 22-47.

• Atkinson, G., Morse-Jones, S., Mourato, S. and Provins, A. (2012) When to Take No for an Answer? Using Entreaties to Reduce Protest Zeros in Contingent Valuation Surveys. Environmental and Resource Economics 51 (4): 497-523

• Cranford, M. and Mourato, S. (2011) Community Conservation and a Two-Stage Approach to Payments for Ecosystem Services. Ecological Economics 71: 89-98.

• 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.

• 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.

• Yetano-Roche, M., Mourato, S., Fischedick, M., Pietzner, K., Viebahn, P. (2010) Public Attitudes Towards and Demand for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Vehicles: A Review of the Evidence and Methodological Implications. Energy Policy 38: 5301-5310.

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

• 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.