BIOECON

Scientific partners

U_glasgow University of Glasgow
Institute of Biodiversity, Animal Health and Comparative Medicine

The new Environmental Economics and One Health research group at the University of Glasgow is focussed on applying economics within an inter-disciplinary setting. The main research areas we focus on are:

- economics of biodiversity management and policy
- invasive species
- zoonotic diseases,
- the links between animal health, ecosystem health and human wellbeing
- anti-microbial resistance
- biodiversity offsetting
- economic values of biodiversity.

Contact: prof. Nicholas Hanley

CURRENT PROJECTS Start Date End Date Description
Improving emerging infectious disease surveillance   ongoing https://www.gla.ac.uk/research/beacons/onehealth/emerginginfectiousdiseases/
Thinking forward through the past: Linking science, social science and the humanities to inform the sustainable reduction of endemic disease in British livestock farming 2017 ongoing Endemic livestock diseases pose a major impediment to livestock health, welfare, productivity and profit. They can also potentially undermine human health by encouraging antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance. These diseases are not new. Many of the tools to tackle them already exist, and yet they remain a problem. The project aims to explain why, and to work out what could be done about them.