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Dr BEN DAVIES

Lecturer

BA (York), MSc (Edinburgh), PhD (Cantab)

Dr Ben Davies 

Personal Details

Telephone:

+44 (0)1224 273237/4164

Fax:

01224 272181

E-mail:

ben.davies@abdn.ac.uk


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Biography

Ben spent two years as an environmental journalist before taking his Masters degree. Subsequently he worked as a Research Assistant in the Scottish Agricultural College, Edinburgh, and then as the Booker Research Fellow at the Agricultural Economics Unit, University of Exeter, before studying for his PhD. Before joining the department in 2007, he spent 4 years as a Researcher in the Socio-Economics Research Group of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.

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Research Interests

Ben’s interests are in the relationships between individual decision making, institutions, and theories of governance related particularly to environmental issues. Past research has included work on multi-criteria analysis, environmental valuation, industrial organisation, and agri-environmental policy design, and more broadly addressed theories of human agency and social organisation.

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PhD Supervision Interests

Environment-agriculture interactions; environmental policy design; environmental management.

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Selected Publications

  • (Davies,B.B., Hodge, I.D.), Exploring environmental perspectives in lowland agriculture: A Q methodology study in East Anglia, UK, Ecological Economics, Vol 61, pp 323 - 333, 2007
  • (Davies,Ben B., Hodge, Ian D.), Farmers' Preferences for New Environmental Policy Instruments: Determining the Acceptability of Cross Compliance for Biodiversity Benefits, Journal of Agricultural Economics, Vol. 57, No.3, pp 393 - 414, 2006
  • (Davies,Ben B., Blackstock, Kirsty, Rauschmayer, Felix), Recruitment, compositoin, and mandate issues in deliberative processes: should we focus on arguments rather than idividuals?, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy, Vol. 23, pp 599 - 615, 2005 

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