Susana Mourato
Biographic Data
| ID | 1413601 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Susana Mourato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Susana |
| FAMILY NAME | Mourato |
| SIGNATURE | MOURATO S |
| AFFILIATIONS | London School of Economics and Political Science |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9361-9990 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 128 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
What is a lion worth to local people – Quantifying of the costs of living alongside a top predator
Investigating acceptance of marine tourism levies, to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities
Marine tourism is promoted as a substitute economic activity to unsustainable fishing, which is compatible with conservation. However, benefits of marine tourism do not typically accrue in small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which often bear the costs of conservation; they accrue to tourists and tourist-focussed businesses. We explored how marine tourism levies could operationalise the beneficiary-pays principle and address these cost-benefit inequitie…
The economic value of heritage in England
Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Biodiversity Conservation Videos on Charitable Donations
We explored how different types of audio-visual media content impacted charitable donations using a lab experiment. Subjects chose to donate to a charity in a modified dictator game, after being randomly assigned to watch videos featuring either a non-charismatic species (Bats), a charismatic species (Lions) a composite habitat composed of both species (Bats and Lions in the Savanna), with and without additional content on the anthropogenic cause…
Environmental Valuation and Benefit-Cost Analysis in U.K. Policy
This paper presents an evaluation of the use of environmental valuation – techniques to assign monetary values to environmental impacts of policies and projects, especially nonmarket impacts – in U.K. policy. In doing so, we seek to contribute to the debate, more generally, of the use and influence of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in national policy processes such as Impact Assessment. Specifically, our contribution in this paper is two-fold. First…
Modeling individual preferences for energy sources
The Amenity Value of English Nature
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services
Focusing on the most impoverished populations, we critically review and synthesise key themes from dominant frameworks for assessing the relationship between well-being and ecosystem services in developing countries. This requires a differentiated approach to conceptualising well-being that appropriately reflects the perspectives of the poorest-those most directly dependent on ecosystem services, and their vulnerability to external and policy-dri…
Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes
Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services
Happiness is greater in natural environments
Uncertain Emission Reductions from Forest Conservation
Watson, C., S. Mourato, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2013. Uncertain emission reductions from forest conservation: REDD in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 18(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05670-180306
Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services
Recent revisions to the theory and definition of payments for ecosystem services (PES) challenge the generally accepted dominance of direct incentives provided in a buyer–seller relationship. The revisionist thinking insists indirect incentives and a cooperative, reciprocal relationship are often more appropriate. Those characteristics, however, hark back to the indirect, cooperative interventions that constitute "community conservation", which P…
Life satisfaction and air quality in London
Choice Modelling Approaches
In this paper, we examine some popular ‘choice modelling’ approaches to environmental valuation, which can be considered as alternatives to more familiar valuation techniques based on stated preferences such as the contingent valuation method. A number of choice modelling methods are consistent with consumer theory, and its focus on an attribute‐based theory of value permits a superior representation of many environmental management contexts. How…
Valuing different road options for Stonehenge
Stonehenge in the UK is one of the best-known and most important archaeological sites in the world. Unfortunately the site suffers considerable intrusion in the form of two busy roads which pass close by on either side of the stone circle, which provide an ‘excellent’ view of the site in its landscape. It is not a priori certain that closing one road and burying the other, as was proposed by those charged with managing the site, would actually im…
Beyond ‘dusty archives’
Libraries and archives are increasingly under pressure to justify the cost of preserving the recorded heritage. This paper addresses the real need to identify and measure the benefits of preservation of the recorded heritage in the UK. Stated preference techniques are well established in the field of environmental economics, and they are also appropriate for the valuation of cultural heritage. The authors develop and test a methodology to estimat…
Balancing Competing Principles of Environmental Equity
Diverse and competing principles of equity are argued to be relevant to the burden-sharing problem for environmental improvement programmes. In this paper, a survey-based approach is used to reconcile this conflict, which is defined as sharing of the costs of an environmental programme among different individuals or groups. Respondents were asked to rank hypothetical individuals or groups on the basis of differences in relevant characteristic att…
Happiness is greater in natural environments
Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services
Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services
Recent revisions to the theory and definition of payments for ecosystem services (PES) challenge the generally accepted dominance of direct incentives provided in a buyer–seller relationship. The revisionist thinking insists indirect incentives and a cooperative, reciprocal relationship are often more appropriate. Those characteristics, however, hark back to the indirect, cooperative interventions that constitute "community conservation", which P…
Investigating acceptance of marine tourism levies, to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities
Marine tourism is promoted as a substitute economic activity to unsustainable fishing, which is compatible with conservation. However, benefits of marine tourism do not typically accrue in small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which often bear the costs of conservation; they accrue to tourists and tourist-focussed businesses. We explored how marine tourism levies could operationalise the beneficiary-pays principle and address these cost-benefit inequitie…
Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Biodiversity Conservation Videos on Charitable Donations
We explored how different types of audio-visual media content impacted charitable donations using a lab experiment. Subjects chose to donate to a charity in a modified dictator game, after being randomly assigned to watch videos featuring either a non-charismatic species (Bats), a charismatic species (Lions) a composite habitat composed of both species (Bats and Lions in the Savanna), with and without additional content on the anthropogenic cause…
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
Environmental Valuation and Benefit-Cost Analysis in U.K. Policy
This paper presents an evaluation of the use of environmental valuation – techniques to assign monetary values to environmental impacts of policies and projects, especially nonmarket impacts – in U.K. policy. In doing so, we seek to contribute to the debate, more generally, of the use and influence of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in national policy processes such as Impact Assessment. Specifically, our contribution in this paper is two-fold. First…
Balancing Competing Principles of Environmental Equity
Diverse and competing principles of equity are argued to be relevant to the burden-sharing problem for environmental improvement programmes. In this paper, a survey-based approach is used to reconcile this conflict, which is defined as sharing of the costs of an environmental programme among different individuals or groups. Respondents were asked to rank hypothetical individuals or groups on the basis of differences in relevant characteristic att…
Modeling individual preferences for energy sources
Uncertain Emission Reductions from Forest Conservation
Watson, C., S. Mourato, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2013. Uncertain emission reductions from forest conservation: REDD in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 18(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05670-180306
Beyond ‘dusty archives’
Libraries and archives are increasingly under pressure to justify the cost of preserving the recorded heritage. This paper addresses the real need to identify and measure the benefits of preservation of the recorded heritage in the UK. Stated preference techniques are well established in the field of environmental economics, and they are also appropriate for the valuation of cultural heritage. The authors develop and test a methodology to estimat…
Balancing Competing Principles of Environmental Equity
Diverse and competing principles of equity are argued to be relevant to the burden-sharing problem for environmental improvement programmes. In this paper, a survey-based approach is used to reconcile this conflict, which is defined as sharing of the costs of an environmental programme among different individuals or groups. Respondents were asked to rank hypothetical individuals or groups on the basis of differences in relevant characteristic att…
Choice Modelling Approaches
In this paper, we examine some popular ‘choice modelling’ approaches to environmental valuation, which can be considered as alternatives to more familiar valuation techniques based on stated preferences such as the contingent valuation method. A number of choice modelling methods are consistent with consumer theory, and its focus on an attribute‐based theory of value permits a superior representation of many environmental management contexts. How…
Valuing different road options for Stonehenge
Stonehenge in the UK is one of the best-known and most important archaeological sites in the world. Unfortunately the site suffers considerable intrusion in the form of two busy roads which pass close by on either side of the stone circle, which provide an ‘excellent’ view of the site in its landscape. It is not a priori certain that closing one road and burying the other, as was proposed by those charged with managing the site, would actually im…
Life satisfaction and air quality in London
Community conservation and a two-stage approach to payments for ecosystem services
Recent revisions to the theory and definition of payments for ecosystem services (PES) challenge the generally accepted dominance of direct incentives provided in a buyer–seller relationship. The revisionist thinking insists indirect incentives and a cooperative, reciprocal relationship are often more appropriate. Those characteristics, however, hark back to the indirect, cooperative interventions that constitute "community conservation", which P…
Happiness is greater in natural environments
Uncertain Emission Reductions from Forest Conservation
Watson, C., S. Mourato, and E. J. Milner-Gulland. 2013. Uncertain emission reductions from forest conservation: REDD in the Bale Mountains, Ethiopia. Ecology and Society 18(3): 6. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-05670-180306
The Amenity Value of English Nature
Assessing the Relationship Between Human Well-being and Ecosystem Services
Focusing on the most impoverished populations, we critically review and synthesise key themes from dominant frameworks for assessing the relationship between well-being and ecosystem services in developing countries. This requires a differentiated approach to conceptualising well-being that appropriately reflects the perspectives of the poorest-those most directly dependent on ecosystem services, and their vulnerability to external and policy-dri…
Investigating fishers’ preferences for the design of marine Payments for Environmental Services schemes
Credit-Based Payments for Ecosystem Services
Modeling individual preferences for energy sources
Environmental Valuation and Benefit-Cost Analysis in U.K. Policy
This paper presents an evaluation of the use of environmental valuation – techniques to assign monetary values to environmental impacts of policies and projects, especially nonmarket impacts – in U.K. policy. In doing so, we seek to contribute to the debate, more generally, of the use and influence of benefit-cost analysis (BCA) in national policy processes such as Impact Assessment. Specifically, our contribution in this paper is two-fold. First…
Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Biodiversity Conservation Videos on Charitable Donations
We explored how different types of audio-visual media content impacted charitable donations using a lab experiment. Subjects chose to donate to a charity in a modified dictator game, after being randomly assigned to watch videos featuring either a non-charismatic species (Bats), a charismatic species (Lions) a composite habitat composed of both species (Bats and Lions in the Savanna), with and without additional content on the anthropogenic cause…
The economic value of heritage in England
What is a lion worth to local people – Quantifying of the costs of living alongside a top predator
Investigating acceptance of marine tourism levies, to cover the opportunity costs of conservation for coastal communities
Marine tourism is promoted as a substitute economic activity to unsustainable fishing, which is compatible with conservation. However, benefits of marine tourism do not typically accrue in small-scale fisheries (SSFs), which often bear the costs of conservation; they accrue to tourists and tourist-focussed businesses. We explored how marine tourism levies could operationalise the beneficiary-pays principle and address these cost-benefit inequitie…
Sustainable dietary choices improved by reflection before a nudge in an online experiment
Economics (16 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (14 works) · Business (13 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Environmental economics (8 works) · Geography (8 works) · Microeconomics (8 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Willingness to pay (7 works)