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Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP)

Land Use Change, Forestry and Greenhouse Gas Removal

For more than 30 years LEEP researchers have been examining the relationships between land use and the variety of natural capital and ecosystem service related benefits that arise from land use change. Within this a consistent theme has been how land use responds to climate change and can either remove or add to greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.

A particular focus has been given to the co-benefits and trade-offs that occur when we switch land use from agriculture to the variety of forest and multiple landscapes described by the term 'treescapes'. Equally importantly LEEP looks not just at the consequences of moving to alternative land uses, but the drivers of change which deliver those new landscapes; rejecting the common literature which just focuses upon the wonderful advantages of different futures while failing to tackle to equally important issue of how those future can be delivered.

Publications title Authors Date

Shifts in national land use and food production in Great Britain after a climate tipping point

Bateman, IJ; Ritchie, P; Smith, G; et al. 2020

Using Individualised Choice Maps to Capture the Spatial Dimensions of Value Within Choice Experiments

Badura, T; Ferrini, S; Burton, M; et al. 2019

Chapter 12: The natural capital approach to integrating science, economics and policy into decisions affecting the natural environment

Bateman, IJ; Binner, A; Day, B; et al. 2019

Fire, Tractors, and Health in the Amazon: A Cost-Benefit Analysis of Fire Policy

Morello, T; Martino, S; Duarte, AF; et al. 2019

Large changes in Great Britain’s vegetation and agricultural land-use predicted under unmitigated climate change

Ritchie, P; Harper, A; Smith, G; et al. 2019

Policy design for the Anthropocene

Sterner, T; Barbier, E; Bateman, IJ; et al. 2019

Public funding for public goods: A post-Brexit perspective on principles for agricultural policy

Bateman, IJ; Balmford, B 2018

Bringing Health and the Environment into Decision-Making: The Natural Capital Approach

Bateman, IJ; Wheeler, BW 2018

Updating the Woodland Valuation Tool: A review of recent literature on the non-market values of woodlands

Faccioli, M; Bateman, IJ 2018

Good parks – bad parks: the influence of perceptions of location on WTP and preference motives for urban parks

Andrews, B; Ferrini, S; Bateman, IJ 2017

Spatially explicit integrated modeling and economic valuation of climate driven land use change and its indirect effects

Bateman, IJ; Agarwala, M; Binner, A; et al. 2016

Valuing the social and environmental contribution of woodlands and trees in England, Scotland and Wales

Binner, AR; Smith, G; Bateman, IJ; et al. 2016

The potential for land sparing to offset greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture

Lamb, Anthony; Green, Rhys; Bateman, IJ; et al. 2016

Conserving tropical biodiversity via market forces and spatial targeting

Bateman, IJ; Coombes, E; Fitzherbert, E; et al. 2015

The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture: Nonlinear Effects and Aggregation Bias in Ricardian Models of Farmland Values

Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, IJ 2015

The environmental impact of climate change adaptation

Fezzi, Carlo; Harwood, AR; Lovett, Andrew A.; et al. 2015

Natural capital and ecosystem services informing decisions: From promise to prac

Guerrya, Anne ; Polaskyc, Stephen; Lubchencof, Stephen; et al.

2015

Scoping study on valuing the social and environmental benefits of trees

Amy Binner, Greg Smith, Ian Bateman, Brett Day, Matthew Agarwala and Amii Harwood 2014

Economic Analysis for the UK National Ecosystem Assessment: Synthesis and Scenario Valuation of Changes in Ecosystem Services

Bateman, IJ; Harwood, Amii R.; Abson, David J.; et al. 2014

UK National Ecosystem Assessment follow on: Synthesis of the Key Findings

Bateman, I; Day, B; Agarwala, M; et al. 2014

Valuing Provisioning Ecosystem Services in Agriculture: The Impact of Climate Change on Food Production in the United Kingdom

Fezzi, Carlo; Bateman, IJ; Askew, T; et al. 2014

Economic Assessment of the Recreational Value of Ecosystems: Methodological Development and National and Local Application

Sen, A; Harwood, Amii R.; Bateman, IJ; et al. 2014

Bringing Ecosystem Services into Economic Decision-Making: Land Use in the United Kingdom

Bateman, IJ; Harwood, Amii R.; Mace, Georgina; et al. 2013

Sustainable Intensification in Agriculture: Premises and Policies

Garnett, T; Appleby, MC; Balmford, A; et al. 2013

Chapter 22: Economic Values from Ecosystems

Bateman, IJ 2012

Towards transferable functions for extraction of Non-timber Forest Products: A case study on charcoal production in Tanzania

Schaafsma, M; Morse-Jones, S; Posen, S; et al. 2012

Chapter 26: Valuing Changes in Ecosystem Services: Scenario Analyses

Bateman, IJ; Abson, D; Andrews, B; et al. 2011

Economic Analysis for Ecosystem Service Assessments

Bateman, IJ; Mace, Georgina; Fezzi, Carlo; et al. 2011

Structural Agricultural Land Use Modeling for Spatial Agro-Environmental Policy

Bateman, IJ; Fezzi, Carlo. 2011

UK National Ecosystem Assessment : understanding nature's value to society. Synthesis of key findings

Aspinall, R; Austen, M; Bardgett, R; et al. 2011

Estimating Arrival Numbers for Informal Recreation: A Geographical Approach and Case Study of British Woodlands

Jones, A; Wright, J; Bateman, IJ; et al. 2010

Bringing the real world into economic analyses of land use value: Incorporating spatial complexity

Bateman, IJ. 2009

Reducing gain–loss asymmetry: A virtual reality choice experiment valuing land use change

Bateman, IJ; Day, B; Jones, A; et al. 2009

The social value of carbon sequestered in Great Britain's woodlands

Brainard, J; Bateman, IJ; Lovett, Andrew A.; et al. 2009

The aggregation of environmental benefit values: Welfare measures, distance decay and total WTP

Bateman, IJ; Day, B; Georgiou, S; et al. 2006

Analysing the Agricultural Costs and Non-market Benefits of Implementing the Water Framework Directive

Bateman, IJ; Brouwer, R; Davies, H; et al. 2006

Comparing contingent valuation and contingent ranking: A case study considering the benefits of urban river water quality improvements

Bateman, IJ; Colec, M.A; Georgioua, S; et al. 2006

Brainard Lovett & Bateman J Forestry carbon 2006

Brainard, J; Lovett, Andrew A.; Bateman, IJ. 2006

First impressions count: interviewer appearance and information effects in stated preference studies

Bateman, IJ; Mawby, J. 2004

Contrasting Conventional with Multi-Level Modeling Approaches to Meta-Analysis: Expectation Consistency in U.K. Woodland Recreation Values

Bateman, IJ; Jones, A. 2003

Applying Geographical Information Systems (GIS) to Environmental and Resource Economics I.

Ian J. Bateman A.P. Jonnes, A.A. Lovett, I.R. Lake and B.H. Day 2002

Modelling demand for recreation in English woodlands

Julii Brainard, Ian Bateman and Andrew Lovett 2001

Modelling and mapping timber values using geographical information systems

Ian J. Bateman and Andrew A. Lovett 2000

Valuing and Mapping Woodland Access Potential

Ian J. Bateman and Andrew A. Lovett 2000

Estimating and valuing the carbon sequestered in softwood and hardwood trees, timber products and forest soils in Wales

Ian J. Bateman and Andrew A. Lovett 2000

Modelling and mapping agricultural output values using farm specific details and environmental databases

Ian J. Bateman, Christine Ennew, Andrew A. Lovett1 and Anthony J. Rayner 1999

The impact of measurement assumptions upon individual travel cost estimates of consumer surplus: a GIS analysis

I.J. Bateman, J.S. Brainard, A.A. Lovett and G.D. Garrod 1999

Using geographical information systems (GIS) and large area databases to predict Yield Class: a study of Sitka spruce in Wales

Ian J. Bateman and Andrew A. Lovett 1998

Non-users' Willingness to Pay for a National Park: An Application and Critique of the Contingent Valuation Method

Ian J. Bateman and Ian H. Langford 1997

Budget-Constraint, Temporal, and Question-Ordering Effects in Contingent Valuation Studies

Ian J. Bateman and Ian H. Langford 1997

Measurement issues in the travel cost method: a geographical information systems approach

Ian J. Bateman, Guy D. Garrod, Julii S. Brainard and Andrew A. Lovett 1996

The UK Timber Market: an Econometric Model

Ian J. Bateman and Chris Mellor 1990