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Professor Brett Day

Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP)

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LEEP, 1st floor
Xfi Building, University of Exeter, Rennes Drive, Exeter, EX4 4ST, UK

Brett is an environmental economist working in the field of ecosystem services, the particular focus of his research being the development of methods and knowledge for the support of environmental decision-making. He received a PhD in Economics from University College London in 2004, took up a faculty position in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of East Anglia in 2005, and in 2015 joined the Department of Politics in Exeter University. Brett has published widely in the academic literature including outlets such as Science, the Review of Economics and Statistics and the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management. He also maintains close links with government and business, applying the methods of environmental economics to problems of environmental management in both public and private sectors.

Some major themes in Brett’s research include:

(1) Non-Market Valuation: Stated Preferences - Applying methods of field and laboratory experiments to facilitate the detailed exploration of the process of preference expression in stated preference valuation exercises.

(2) Non-Market Valuation: Revealed Preferences – Applying advanced spatial processing and econometric analysis to recover estimates of environmental value from data recording property prices or recreation demand. Brett’s work in this area was instrumental in changing UK government policy with regards to costing transport noise and also underpinned the introduction of emissions-differentiated road tax in the 2008 budget.

(3) Integrated Environment-Economy Modelling – Designed and developing spatially-disaggregated integrated models of environment-economy interactions, for example, the TIM model developed for the National Ecosystem Assessment – Follow On project.

(4) Payment for Ecosystem Services (PES) Mechanism Design – Applying principal-agent theory as well as experimental and simulation methods in designing efficient mechanisms for the implementation of PES. Brett has designed two real-world PES implementations paid for by water companies wishing to reduce agricultural diffuse pollution and is advising the UK government on mechanisms for the efficient allocation of agri-environment funds.

Key publications | Publications by category | Publications by year

Key publications

Smith GS, Day B (2017). Addressing the Collective Action Problem in Multiple-purchaser PES: an Experimental Investigation of Negotiated Payment Contributions. Ecological Economics, 144, 36-58. DOI.

Binner AR, Day BH (2017). How Property Markets Determine Welfare Outcomes: an Equilibrium Sorting Model Analysis of Local Environmental Interventions. Environmental and Resource Economics Abstract. DOI.

Binner A, Day B (2015). Exploring mortgage interest deduction reforms: an equilibrium sorting model with endogenous tenure choice. Journal of Public Economics, 122, 40-54. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Harwood AR, Mace GM, Watson RT, Abson DJ, Andrews B, Binner A, Crowe A, Day BH, Dugdale S, et al (2013). Bringing ecosystem services into economic decision-making: land use in the United Kingdom. Science, 341(6141), 45-50. Abstract. Author URL. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Harwood AR, Mace GM, Watson RT, Abson DJ, Andrews B, Binner A, Crowe A, Day BH, Dugdale S, et al (2013). Ecosystem services: response. Science, 342(6157), 421-422. Author URL. DOI.

Day B, Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Dupont D, Louviere JJ, Morimoto S, Scarpa R, Wang P (2012). Ordering effects and choice set awareness in repeat-response stated preference studies. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 63(1), 73-91. Abstract. DOI.

Publications by category

Books

Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Day B, Hanemann WM, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G, Mourato S, Ozdemiroolu E, et al (2002). Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques: a Manual., Elgar Publishing.

Journal articles

Day B (In Press). Value of greenspace under lockdown in England. Environmental and Resource Economics

Bateman IJ, Anderson K, Argles A, Belcher C, Betts RA, Binner A, Brazier RE, Cho FHT, Collins RM, Day BH, et al (2023). A review of planting principles to identify the right place for the right tree for ‘net zero plus’ woodlands: Applying a place-based natural capital framework for sustainable, efficient and equitable (SEE) decisions. People and Nature, 5(2), 271-301. Abstract. DOI.

Delafield G, Smith GS, Day B, Holland R, Lovett A (2023). Correction to: the Financial and Environmental Consequences of Renewable Energy Exclusion Zones. Environmental and Resource Economics DOI.

Faccioli M, Zonneveld S, Tyler CR, Day B (2023). Does local Natural Capital Accounting deliver useful policy and management information? a case study of Dartmoor and Exmoor National Parks. J Environ Manage, 327 Abstract. Author URL. DOI.

Delafield G, Smith GS, Day B, Holland R, Lovett A (2023). The Financial and Environmental Consequences of Renewable Energy Exclusion Zones. Environmental and Resource Economics Abstract. DOI.

Faccioli M, Law C, Caine C, Berger N, Yan X, Weninger F, Guell C, Day B, Smith R, Bateman I, et al (2022). Combined carbon and health taxes outperform single-purpose information or fiscal measures in designing sustainable food policies. Nature Food, 3, 331-340. Abstract. DOI.

Fairchild TP, Bennett WG, Smith G, Day B, Skov MW, Moeller I, Beaumont N, Karunarathna H, Griffin JN (2021). Coastal wetlands mitigate storm flooding and associated costs in estuaries. ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH LETTERS, 16(7). Author URL. DOI.

Finch T, Day BH, Massimino D, Redhead JW, Field RH, Balmford A, Green RE, Peach WJ (2021). Evaluating spatially explicit sharing-sparing scenarios for multiple environmental outcomes. JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY, 58(3), 655-666. Author URL. DOI.

Ritchie P, Smith G, Davis K, Fezzi C, Halleck-Vega S, Harper A, Boulton C, Binner A, Day B, Gallego-Sala A, et al (2020). Shifts in national land use and food production in Great Britain after a climate tipping point. Nature Food, 1, 76-83. DOI.

Day BH (2020). The Value of Greenspace Under Pandemic Lockdown. ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 76(4), 1161-1185. Author URL. DOI.

Smith GS, Day B, Binner A (2019). Multiple‑Purchaser Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Exploration Using Spatial Simulation Modelling. Environmental and Resource Economics Abstract. DOI.

Smith G, Day B, Bateman IJ (2019). Preference Uncertainty as an Explanation of Anomalies in Contingent Valuation: Coastal Management in the UK. Regional Environmental Change DOI.

Day BH, Bateman I, Binner A, Ferrini S, Fezzi C (2019). Structurally-consistent estimation of use and nonuse values for landscape-wide environmental change. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 98 DOI.

Bateman IJ, Balmford B, Bolt K, Day B, Ferrini S (2019). The value of statistical life for adults and children:. Comparisons of the contingent valuation and chained approaches. Resource and Energy Economics, 57, 68-84. DOI.

Davis KJ, Binner A, Bell A, Day B, Poate T, Rees S, Smith G, Wilson K, Bateman I (2018). A generalizable integrated natural capital methodology for targeting investment in coastal defence. Journal of Environmental Economics & Policy DOI.

Bateman I, Agarwala M, Binner A, Coombes E, Day B, Ferrini S, Fezzi C, Hutchins M, Lovett A, Posen P, et al (2016). Spatially explicit integrated modeling and economic valuation of climate driven land use change and its indirect effects. J Environ Manage, 181, 172-184. Abstract. Author URL. DOI.

Binner A, Day B (2015). Exploring mortgage interest deduction reforms: an equilibrium sorting model with endogenous tenure choice. Journal of Public Economics, 122, 40-54. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Harwood AR, Mace GM, Watson RT, Abson DJ, Andrews B, Binner A, Crowe A, Day BH, Dugdale S, et al (2013). Ecosystem Services: Nature's Balance Sheet Response. SCIENCE, 342(6157), 421-422. Author URL.

Bateman I, Binner A, Coombes E, Day B, Ferrini S, Fezzi C, Hutchins M, Posen P (2012). Integrated and spatially explicit modelling of the economic value of complex environmental change and its indirect effects. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-40. Abstract.

Kirkby CA, Giudice R, Day B, Turner K, Soares-Filho BS, Oliveira-Rodrigues H, Yu DW (2011). Closing the ecotourism-conservation loop in the Peruvian Amazon. Environmental Conservation, 38, 6-17. DOI.

Day BH, Loomes G (2010). Conflicting violations of transitivity and where they may lead us. Theory and Decision, 68, 233-242. DOI.

Parry L, Day B, Amaral S, Peres CA (2010). Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters. Population and Environment, 32, 137-176. DOI.

Day B, Pinto Prades J-L (2010). Ordering anomalies in choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 59, 7675-7697. DOI.

Parry L, Peres CA, Day B, Amaral S (2010). Rural-urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds. Conservation Letters, 3, 251-259. DOI.

Kirkby CA, Giudice-Granados R, Day B, Turner K, Velarde-Andrade LM, Duenas-Duenas A, Lara-Rivas JC, Yu DW (2010). The market triumph of ecotourism: an economic investigation of the private and social benefits of competing land uses in the Peruvian Amazon. PLoS ONE, 5 DOI.

Bateman IJ, Day BH, Dupont D, Georgiou S (2009). Procedural invariance testing of the one-and-one-half-bound dichotomous choice elicitation method. The Review of Economics and Statistics, 91, 806-820. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Day BH, Jones AP, Jude S (2009). Reducing gain-loss asymmetry: a virtual reality choice experiment valuing land use change. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 58(1), 106-118. Abstract. DOI.

Day B, Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Dupont D, Louviere JJ, Morimoto S, Scarpa R, Wang P (2009). Task independence in stated preference studies: a test of order effect explanations. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-40. Abstract.

Bateman IJ, Carson RT, Day B, Dupont D, Louviere JJ, Morimoto S, Scarpa R, Wang P (2008). Choice set awareness and ordering effects in discrete choice experiments. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-45. Abstract.

Ferrini S, Fezzi C, Day BH, Bateman IJ (2008). Valuing spatially dispersed environmental goods: a joint revealed and stated preference model to consistently separate use and non-use values. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-25. Abstract.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2007). Beyond implicit prices: Recovering theoretically consistent and transferable values for noise avoidance from a hedonic property price model. Environmental and Resource Economics, 37(1), 211-232. Abstract. DOI.

Bateman I, Day B, Loomes G, Sugden R (2007). Can ranking techniques elicit robust values?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34(1), 49-66. Abstract. DOI.

Day B (2007). Distribution-free estimation with interval-censored contingent valuation data: Troubles with Turnbull?. Environmental and Resource Economics, 37, 777-795.

Nellthorp JA, Bristow A, Day BH (2007). Introducing willingness-to-pay for noise changes into transport appraisal: an application of benefit transfer. Transport Reviews, 27, 1-27. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Brouwer R, Davies H, Day BH, Deflandre A, Di Falco S, Georgiou S, Hadley D, Hutchins M, Jones AP, et al (2006). Analysing the agricultural costs and non-market benefits of implementing the Water Framework Directive. Journal of Agricultural Economics, 57(2), 221-237. Abstract. DOI.

Bateman IJ, Brouwer R, Davies H, Day BH, Deflandre A, Falco SD, Georgiou S, Hadley D, Hutchins M, Jones AP, et al (2006). Catchment hydrology, resources, economics and management (ChREAM): Integrated modelling of rural kand use & farm income impacts of the WFD and its potential non-market benefits. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-21. Abstract.

Bateman I, Day B, Dupont D, Georgiou S, Matias NGN, Morimoto S, Subramanian L (2006). Does phosphate treatment for prevention of eutrophication pass the benefit-cost test?. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-25. Abstract.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2006). Estimating the demand for peace and quiet using property market data. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-37. Abstract.

Bateman IJ, Jones AP, Jude S, Day BH (2006). Reducing gains/loss asymmetry: a virtual reality choice experiment (VRCE) valuing land use change. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-28. Abstract.

Bateman IJ, Day BH, Georgiou S, Lake I (2006). The aggregation of environmental benefit values: Welfare measures, distance decay and total WTP. Ecological Economics, 60(2), 450-460. Abstract. DOI.

Day B (2005). Distribution-free estimation with interval-censored contingent valuation data: Troubles with turnbull?. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-33. Abstract.

Atkinson G, Day B, Mourato S, Palmer C (2004). 'Amenity' or 'eyesore'? Negative willingness to pay for options to replace electricity transmission towers. Applied Economics Letters, 11(4), 203-208. Abstract. DOI.

Ready R, Navrud S, Day B, Dubourg R, Machado F, Mourato S, Spanninks F, Rodriquez MXV (2004). Benefit Transfer in Europe: How Reliable Are Transfers between Countries?. Environmental and Resource Economics, 29(1), 67-82. DOI.

Ready R, Navrud S, Day BH, Duborg R, Machado F, Mourato S, Spanninks F, Rodriguez M (2004). Contingent valuation of ill health caused by pollution: Testing for context and ordering effects. Portuguese Economic Journal, 3, 145-156.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2004). Nonlinearity in hedonic price equations: an estimation strategy using model-based clustering. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-82. Abstract.

Bateman IJ, Day BH, Dupont D, Georgiou S (2004). OOH LA LA: Testing the one-and-one-half bound dichotomous choice elicitation method for robustness to anomalies. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-57.

Although attractive in terms of its incentive compatibility, the standard single bound (SB) dichotomous choice technique for eliciting willingness to pay (WTP) responses in contingent valuation surveys has a major drawback in terms of its low statistical efficiency. While alternatives such as the double bound (DB) approach (which supplements an initial SB style question concerning a specified bid amount with a subsequent follow-up question concerning a different bid amount) offer improved statistical efficiency, they do so at the cost of compromised incentive compatibility and have also been shown to be vulnerable to a number of response anomalies. An innovative alternative, the one-and-one-half-bound (OOHB) dichotomous choice approach, has recently been proposed by Cooper, Hanemann and Signorello (2002). The OOHB differs from the DB in a number of important respects; the most important being that while each respondent is again exposed to two bid amounts, these are presented prior to any response as upper and lower limits on the cost of schemes. This preserves the incentive compatibility of responses concerning those two limits while generating most of the efficiency gains afforded by the DB method. However, Cooper, Hanemann and Signorello fail to test the method for robustness against response anomalies. Such a test is provided by the present paper. A number of theoretical consistency hypotheses are formulated by contrasting standard expectations with those derived from non-standard reference dependent utility theory. These are tested through the first application of the OOH method within its intended public goods context in a study concerning WTP for remediating impacts upon water quality associated with climate change. Data is collected through a face-to-face survey of over 1250 UK households. Results reject the theoretical consistency of elicited WTP responses showing that the OOHB is highly vulnerable to a number of anomalies. In particular acceptance rates for a given bid amount varied according to which other amount it was paired with and the order in which responses were elicited. We speculate upon the implications of these findings.

Abstract.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2004). Omitted locationalvariates in hedonic analysis: a semiparametric approach using spatial statistics. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-58. Abstract.

Day B (2003). Submarket identification in property markets: a hedonic housing price model for Glasgow. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-50. Abstract.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2003). What price peace? a comprehensive approach to the specification and estimation of hedonic housing price models. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(1), 1-49. Abstract.

Bateman IJ, Jones AP, Lovett AA, Lake IR, Day BH (2002). Applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to environmental and resource economics. Environmental and Resource Economics, 22(1-2), 219-269. Abstract. DOI.

Nunes LC, Cunha-e-Sá MA, Ducla-Soares MM, Rosado MA, Day BH (2001). Identifying non-consistent choice behavior in recreation demand models. Economics Letters, 72(3), 403-410. DOI.

Lake IR, Lovett AA, Bateman IJ, Day BH (2000). Improving land compensation procedures via GIS and hedonic pricing. Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, 18(6), 681-696. Abstract. DOI.

Lake IR, Lovett AA, Bateman IJ, Day B (2000). Using gis and large-scale digital data to implement hedonic pricing studies. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 14(6), 521-541. Abstract. DOI.

Swanson T, Day B, Mourato S (1999). Valuing water quality in China: Purpose, approach and policy. Journal of Environmental Sciences, 11(3), 309-315. Abstract.

Day B, Mourato S (1998). Willingness to pay for water quality maintenance in Chinese rivers. Working Paper - Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment(WM 98-02). Abstract.

Chapters

Bateman IJ, Binner A, Smith G, Day B, Fezzi C, Rusby A, Welters R (2020). Chapter 15 - United Kingdom: Public and Private Sector Payments for Ecosystem Services. In (Ed) Integration, Valuation, Targeting and Efficient Delivery of Public and Private Sector Payments for Ecosystem Services in the UK.

Bateman I, Binner A, Day B, Faccioli M, Fezzi C, Rusby A, Smith G (2020). The natural capital approach to integrating science, economics and policy into decisions affecting the natural environment. In Sutherland W, Brotherton P, Davis Z, Ockendon N, Pettorelli N, Vickery J (Eds.) Conservation Research, Policy and Practice, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 198-217. Abstract.

Day BH, Bateman IJ, Lake IR (2006). A hedonic pricing analysis of road traffic noise. In Pearce DW (Ed) Valuing the Environment in Developed Countries, Edward Elgar.

Bateman I, Day B, Dupont D, Matias NG, Morimoto S (2006). Chapter 15: Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Prevention of Eutrophication. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries. DOI.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2006). Chapter 17: Hedonic Price Analysis of Road Traffic Noise Nuisance. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries. DOI.

Bateman I, Day B, Dupont D, Georgiou S, Matias NG, Morimoto S, Subramanian L (2006). Cost-benefit analysis and the prevention of eutrophication. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries: Case studies, 317-339.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2006). Hedonic price analysis of road traffic noise nuisance. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries: Case studies, 363-406.

Atkinson G, Day BH, Mourato S (2006). Underground or overground? Measuring the visual disamenity from overhead electricity power lines. In Pearce DW (Ed) Valuing the Environment in Developed Countries, Edward Elgar.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Acronyms. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Aggregation. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Analysis of choice modelling data. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Analysis of contingent valuation data. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Cautions, caveats and future directions. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Combining revealed and states preference techniques. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Commissioning a states preference study. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Designing a choice modelling questionnaire. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Designing a contingent valuation questionnaire. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Foreword. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Introduction. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Population, sample and survey mode. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Reporting. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). The authors. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). The foundations of economic valuation. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Bateman I, Carson R, Day B, Hanemann M, Hanley N, Hett T, Jones-Lee M, Loomes G (2002). Validity and reliability. In (Ed) Economic Valuation with Stated Preference Techniques. DOI.

Day BH, Mourato S (2002). Valuing river water quality in China. In Pearce DW, Pearce C, Palmer C (Eds.) Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries, Edward Elgar.

Day BH (2002). Valuing visits to game parks in South Africa. In Pearce DW, Pearce C, Palmer C (Eds.) Valuing the Environment in Developing Countries, Edward Elgar.

Conferences

Nellthorp J, Bristow A, Day B (2007). Cost-benefit values for surface transport noise: Derivation, application and international comparisons. Abstract.

Reports

Day B, Smith GS (2018). Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal) User Guide: Version 2.0., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Business School, University of Exeter.

Binner A, Smith G, Faccioli M, Bateman I, Day B, Agarwala M, Harwood A (2018). Valuing the social and environmental contribution of woodlands and trees in England, Scotland and Wales. Second edition: to 2018., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP) University of Exeter Business School. Abstract.

Day B, Smith GS (2017). The ORVal Recreation Demand Model., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Business School, University of Exeter.

Binner AR, smith G, bateman I, day BH, agarwala M, harwood A (2017). Valuing the social and environmental contribution of woodlands and trees in England, Scotland and Wales.

Day B, Smith GS (2016). Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal) User Guide: Version 1.0., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, University of Exeter.

Elliott J, Day B, Jones G, Binner A, Smith GS, Skirvin D, Boatman ND, Tweedie F (2015). Scoping the strengths and weaknesses of different auction and PES mechanisms for Countryside Stewardship.

Bateman IJ, Day BH, Lake IR, Lovett AA (2001). The effect of road traffic on residential property values. The Stationery Office, the Stationery Office.

Publications by year

In Press

Day B (In Press). Value of greenspace under lockdown in England. Environmental and Resource Economics

2023

Delafield G, Smith GS, Day B, Holland R, Lovett A (2023). The Financial and Environmental Consequences of Renewable Energy Exclusion Zones. Environmental and Resource Economics Abstract. DOI.

2022

Delafield G (2022). Spatial optimisation of renewable energy deployment in Great Britain: a natural capital analysis.

Transitioning global energy systems towards low carbon energy sources will be essential if countries are to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to limit global warming to less than 2°C degrees. As countries decarbonise their energy systems, the need to determine the best locations for renewable energy infrastructure whilst balancing trade-offs between affordability, food security, and nature protection is of paramount importance. By incorporating the natural capital approach into energy modelling, this thesis presents the ADVENT-NEV model, a spatially-explicit cost minimisation model which determines the optimal locations for solar farms, onshore wind farms, bioenergy power stations and their bioenergy crops in Great Britain (GB) considering both market and non-market costs (i.e. ecosystem services).

This thesis makes several empirical contributions to the energy modelling literature. It highlights that when non-market costs are excluded from decision-making, the welfare loss associated with energy transitions could be up to £5 billion. By applying the natural capital approach, however, the ADVENT-NEV model is able to determine locations for energy infrastructure which minimise the social cost of the energy system. For example, it identifies locations where bioenergy crops could reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase carbon sequestration. It concludes however that the expansion of bioenergy crops has the potential to result in a net emission of greenhouse gases; this is concerning given the emphasis being placed on bioenergy to provide carbon sequestration services in GB. This thesis also identifies how restricting bioenergy crops from being grown on National Parks, AONB, peatland and high-grade agricultural land results in even low bioenergy targets being infeasible due to the lack of suitable land.

This thesis has demonstrated the critical role that the natural capital approach and high spatial resolution data could play in future energy decision-making. Failure to incorporate spatial environmental data into energy modelling risks overlooking the economic, spatial and social implications of transitioning to a low carbon energy system.

Abstract.

2021

Fairchild T, Bennett W, Smith G, Day B, Skov M, Möller I, Beaumont N, Karunarathna H, Griffin J (2021). Coastal wetlands mitigate storm flooding and associated costs in estuaries. DOI.

2020

Day BH (2020). The Value of Greenspace Under Pandemic Lockdown. ENVIRONMENTAL & RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 76(4), 1161-1185. Author URL. DOI.

2019

Smith GS, Day B, Binner A (2019). Multiple‑Purchaser Payments for Ecosystem Services: an Exploration Using Spatial Simulation Modelling. Environmental and Resource Economics Abstract. DOI.

Smith G, Day B, Bateman IJ (2019). Preference Uncertainty as an Explanation of Anomalies in Contingent Valuation: Coastal Management in the UK. Regional Environmental Change DOI.

2018

Day B, Smith GS (2018). Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal) User Guide: Version 2.0., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Business School, University of Exeter.

2017

Day B, Smith GS (2017). The ORVal Recreation Demand Model., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, Business School, University of Exeter.

Binner AR, smith G, bateman I, day BH, agarwala M, harwood A (2017). Valuing the social and environmental contribution of woodlands and trees in England, Scotland and Wales.

2016

Day B, Smith GS (2016). Outdoor Recreation Valuation (ORVal) User Guide: Version 1.0., Land, Environment, Economics and Policy (LEEP) Institute, University of Exeter.

2015

Binner A, Day B (2015). Exploring mortgage interest deduction reforms: an equilibrium sorting model with endogenous tenure choice. Journal of Public Economics, 122, 40-54. DOI.

Elliott J, Day B, Jones G, Binner A, Smith GS, Skirvin D, Boatman ND, Tweedie F (2015). Scoping the strengths and weaknesses of different auction and PES mechanisms for Countryside Stewardship.

2013

2012

2011

2010

Day BH, Loomes G (2010). Conflicting violations of transitivity and where they may lead us. Theory and Decision, 68, 233-242. DOI.

Parry L, Day B, Amaral S, Peres CA (2010). Drivers of rural exodus from Amazonian headwaters. Population and Environment, 32, 137-176. DOI.

Day B, Pinto Prades J-L (2010). Ordering anomalies in choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 59, 7675-7697. DOI.

Parry L, Peres CA, Day B, Amaral S (2010). Rural-urban migration brings conservation threats and opportunities to Amazonian watersheds. Conservation Letters, 3, 251-259. DOI.

2009

2008

2007

Bateman I, Day B, Loomes G, Sugden R (2007). Can ranking techniques elicit robust values?. Journal of Risk and Uncertainty, 34(1), 49-66. Abstract. DOI.

Nellthorp J, Bristow A, Day B (2007). Cost-benefit values for surface transport noise: Derivation, application and international comparisons. Abstract.

Day B (2007). Distribution-free estimation with interval-censored contingent valuation data: Troubles with Turnbull?. Environmental and Resource Economics, 37, 777-795.

Nellthorp JA, Bristow A, Day BH (2007). Introducing willingness-to-pay for noise changes into transport appraisal: an application of benefit transfer. Transport Reviews, 27, 1-27. DOI.

2006

Day BH, Bateman IJ, Lake IR (2006). A hedonic pricing analysis of road traffic noise. In Pearce DW (Ed) Valuing the Environment in Developed Countries, Edward Elgar.

Bateman I, Day B, Dupont D, Matias NG, Morimoto S (2006). Chapter 15: Cost–Benefit Analysis and the Prevention of Eutrophication. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries. DOI.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2006). Chapter 17: Hedonic Price Analysis of Road Traffic Noise Nuisance. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries. DOI.

Day B, Bateman I, Lake I (2006). Hedonic price analysis of road traffic noise nuisance. In (Ed) Environmental Valuation in Developed Countries: Case studies, 363-406.

2005

2004

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2003

2002