Exeter LEEPout webinar series: Amy Ando

Following the success of the LEEPin2019 conference, and given the current situation, we have decided to move our seminar series online. The LEEPout series is designed as a platform for hosting a line-up of internationally recognised researchers to showcase their work at the cutting edge of environmental and resource economics. The LEEP Institute therefore invites you to the latest webinar in this series:

Amy Ando – Distributional issues in environmental valuation findings and practice

(joint work with Liqing Li (California State University, Fullerton), Claire Munaretto (ICF), Sahan Dissanayake (Portland State University) and Kaylee Wells (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Online event details

Date: Thursday 15 July 2021

Time: 16:00-17:00 BST (17:00-18:00 Central Europe,11:00-12:00 Eastern; 08:00-09:00 Pacific)

Location: This webinar series is hosted online, a link with joining instructions will be sent within the confirmation of registration email.

Biography

Amy Ando is a Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics. Her research focuses primarily on the economics of species and habitat conservation – including research to inform optimal conservation planning, descriptive analyses of actual private and public conservation behaviour, research to improve aquatic habitat, and spatial conservation portfolio choice to reduce the uncertainty in conservation outcomes. Papers emerging from her research have appeared in Science, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Land Economics, Resource and Energy Economics, Conservation Biology, Conservation Letters.

Abstract

A growing body of research studies how exposure to pollution and access to environmental amenities is distributed among different groups of people, often yielding patterns of environmental injustice. But less research to date focuses on how willingness to pay for environmental goods varies among people, how that variation might be shaped by the positions people occupy in society, and how standard practices in valuation research might prevent us from accurately understanding preference heterogeneity. This talk will present examples of research that can fill these gaps. One paper shows how the values people place on urban beaches in the U.S. varies with race and income (joint with Claire Munaretto). A second paper gives evidence of how such variation in the value we place on nature as adults depends on our experiences with it when we were kids (joint with Liqing Li). Finally, a preview of results from ongoing work gives an example of how stated-preference valuation research needs to pay structural attention to inequities in the population of people whose values we hope to understand (joint with Sahan Dissanayake and Kaylee Wells).

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