Environmental Economy and Policy Research Group has a track record in innovative academic research in many aspects of public policy.
Our research focuses on:
- advancing our understanding of the socio-economic and institutional causes of environmental and agricultural problems
- assessing alternative economic and legal solutions to these problems
- providing recommendations for implementation of policies
Our research work is interdisciplinary by bringing expertise from economics, law, environmental science, ecology, agriculture and geography in order to provide policy input to a broad range of stakeholders, industry sectors as well as governmental and international organisations.
Currently, the research group has research projects in the following areas:
- Forestry, wildlife, plant and genetic resource management and regulation
- Economics of farming in the East of England
- Analysis of the changes in EU policies on UK agriculture
- Markets for ecosystem services
- Land use, agriculture and environmental management
- Water and wetlands management and regulation
- Solid waste management
- Economic and legal research on climate change
- Urban atmospheric pollution
- Consulting on agri-environmental policies