BIOECON
Scientific partners
 |
Department of geography and sustainable development, University of St.Andrews | |
St Andrews is Scotland's oldest university, and the 3rd oldest in the English-speaking world. A new environmental economics research group has just been established within the Department of geography and sustainable development, led by Nick Hanley. Within the university, we have strong links with the Scottish Oceans Institute. The Department offers an MSc in Sustainable Development, and hosts a growing number of PhD students in environmental economics and related inter-disciplinary studies. Contact: prof. Nicholas Hanley |
||
| CURRENT PROJECTS | Start Date | End Date | Description |
| MASTS coastal zone research programme | 2011 | ongoing | www.masts.ac.uk |
| Modelling economic strategies to increase resilience against tree disease outbreaks | Jul 2014 | 2017 | This project is funded by BBSRC, and is run jointly by the universities of Stirling, St Andrews, Cambridge and Aberystwyth. It is using economics, mathematics, ecology and epidemiology to create models of the spatial spread of invasive diseases and management responses to them within a landscape. |
| FOREMOD – Modelling economic impact and strategies to increase resilience against tree disease outbreaks | 2016 | ongoing | http://forestresilience.net/ |
