Nature in the Balance
The Economics of Biodiversity
Edited by Dieter Helm and Cameron Hepburn
Author Information
Dieter Helm, Professor of Energy Policy and Official Fellow in Economics, New College, University of Oxford,Cameron Hepburn, Senior Research Fellow; Fellow, Grantham Research Institute, London School of Economics; New College, University of Oxford
Dieter Helm is a professor at the University of Oxford and a Fellow in Economics at New College. He is Chairman of the Independent Natural Capital Committee. Previous appointments include membership of the Prime Minister's Council of Science and Technology, and Chairman of the Academic Panel of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. He has also been a Special Advisor to the European Commissioner for Energy. He was the founding managing editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy and is currently an associate editor. He is an Honorary Vice President of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust. He has written and edited a number of books, including The Carbon Crunch (2012, Yale University Press).
Cameron Hepburn is a senior research fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at the London School of Economics. He is also a research fellow at New College, Oxford and a senior visiting fellow at the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment. He has advised governments, international institutions, and the private sector on environmental policy and strategy, and he currently serves as a member of the DECC Secretary of State's Economics Advisory Group. He is an associate editor of the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, and has degrees in law and engineering, a doctorate in economics from Oxford, and over 30 peer-reviewed publications in economics, public policy, law, engineering, philosophy, and biology.
Contributors:
Paul R. Armsworth, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Giles Atkinson, London School of Economics and Political Science
Edward B. Barbier, University of Wyoming
Ian J. Bateman, University of East Anglia
Joanne C. Burgess, University of Wyoming
Salvatore Di Falco, University of Geneva
Paul J. Ferraro, Georgia State University
Ben Groom, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kirk Hamilton, The World Bank
Nick Hanley, University of Stirling
Dieter Helm, University of Oxford
Cameron Hepburn, London School of Economics and Political Science
Kris Johnson, The Nature Conservancy
Chris J. Kennedy, George Mason University
Georgina M. Mace, University College London
Charles F. Mason, University of Wyoming
Dustin Miller, United Nations Environment Programme
Daniela A. Miteva, Duke University
Susana Mourato, London School of Economics and Political Science
Charles Palmer, London School of Economics and Political Science
Subhrendu K. Pattanayak, Duke University
Grischa Perino, University of Hamburg
Stephen Polasky, University of Minnesota
Pavan Sukhdev, Yale University
Timothy Swanson, Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva
Kathy J. Willis, University of Oxford