Roland Brouwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 664386 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roland Brouwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roland |
| FAMILY NAME | Brouwer |
| SIGNATURE | BROUWER R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Waterloo |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0525-2050 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 46 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 103 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 46 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Harnessing legal system complexity for radical shifts to sustainability
Valuing damages and benefits of the altered global nitrogen cycle; lessons for national to global policy support
Cost-benefit analysis (CBA) is increasingly used to inform environmental policy decisions by identifying interventions with the highest net societal benefits. Here we focus on CBAs for nitrogen (NCBA), explaining its history, presenting results of a recent first global NCBA and discussing opportunities and limitations. NCBAs have been conducted since the late 1990s for various geographic regions in Europe, the US, and China, primarily to support …
The economic value of fishing competitions in Finland – insights from an online survey
Competitive fishing events are organised competitions between anglers who fish for incentives that range from monetary and in-kind prizes to accolades and public acclaim. The scale of the phenomenon is globally notable, but their local economic impacts are not fully understood. Anglers often spend large amounts of money during competitions. In this study, we present the results from surveyed Finnish angling competition participants and their mone…
Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises
Costs and benefits of improving water and sanitation in slums and non-slum neighborhoods in Dhaka, a fast-growing mega-city
Mega-cities like Dhaka in Bangladesh face urban planning challenges to provide residents access to safe water and sanitation. This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey focusing on slum and non-slum residents' experiences with urban water supply, water pollution and flood risks and associated costs of illness (COI). The latter are compared to residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for improved water services. We test differences in publ…
Correlating forested green infrastructure to water rates and adverse water quality incidents: A spatial instrumental variable regression model
Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences
Public preferences for marine plastic litter management across Europe
Plastic pollution is one of the most challenging problems affecting the marine environment of our time. Based on a unique dataset covering four European seas and eight European countries, this paper adds to the limited empirical evidence base related to the societal welfare effects of marine litter management. We use a discrete choice experiment to elicit public willingness-to-pay (WTP) for macro and micro plastic removal to achieve Good Environm…
Assessing the capacity for adaptation and collaboration in the context of freshwater pollution management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration
Are biodiversity losses valued differently when they are caused by human activities? A meta-analysis of the non-use valuation literature
Many countries committed to climate action by adopting the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. This study synthesizes 40 years of scientific evidence of what may be an important benefit of these commitments: the non-use value of biodiversity conservation. The synthesis investigates whether biodiversity values can be integrated into climate change damage estimates based on non-use valuation studies of different threats to bi…
Reply to: In defence of simplified PES designs
The economic impacts of water supply restrictions due to climate and policy change: A transboundary river basin supply-side input-output analysis
A review of economic approaches modeling the complex interactions between forest management and watershed services
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services
A comparative study of transaction costs of payments for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam
Wind power externalities: A meta-analysis
A Global Survey and Review of the Determinants of Transaction Costs of Forestry Carbon Projects
Landowner preferences for agri-environmental agreements to conserve the montado ecosystem in Portugal
Agri-environmental policy valuation: Farmers’ contract design preferences for afforestation schemes
Adoption of irrigation water policies to guarantee water supply: A choice experiment
Evolutionary modelling of the macro-economic impacts of catastrophic flood events
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
Testing participation constraints in contract design for sustainable soil conservation in Ethiopia
Directional heterogeneity in WTP models for environmental valuation
From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services
About Bridges and Bonds: Community Responses to The 2000 Floods in Mabalane District, Mozambique
Massive floods hit Mozambique in 2000.1 Many of the affected regions benefited from external aid. This paper investigates how the floods impacted on two communities in the interior of the Limpopo Valley, which did not receive significant assistance during the event and in the immediate aftermath. Drawing on the livelihood approach, it focuses on the role of two types of local resources: knowledge and social capital. The paper shows that the scale…
Agri-environmental policy valuation: Farmers’ contract design preferences for afforestation schemes
Innovative and responsive? A longitudinal analysis of the speed of EU environmental policy making, 1967-97
In institutional terms, the European Union (EU) is considerably 'thicker' than it was thirty years ago, with many new layers of decision-making procedure and myriad new actors, including almost twice as many member states. Conventional wisdom suggests that policy systems, in which policy development depends upon securing agreement among a concurrent majority of actors, are generally slow and collectively sub-optimal. However, a longitudinal analy…
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
A comparative study of transaction costs of payments for forest ecosystem services in Vietnam
Costs and benefits of improving water and sanitation in slums and non-slum neighborhoods in Dhaka, a fast-growing mega-city
Mega-cities like Dhaka in Bangladesh face urban planning challenges to provide residents access to safe water and sanitation. This paper presents the results of a large-scale survey focusing on slum and non-slum residents' experiences with urban water supply, water pollution and flood risks and associated costs of illness (COI). The latter are compared to residents' willingness to pay (WTP) for improved water services. We test differences in publ…
A Global Survey and Review of the Determinants of Transaction Costs of Forestry Carbon Projects
Towards an integrated environmental assessment for wetland and catchment management
This paper develops a decision support system for evaluation of wetland ecosystem management strategy and examines its, so far partial, application in a case study of an important complex coastal wetland known as the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, in the east of England, UK. Most managed ecosystems are complex and often poorly understood hierarchically organized systems. Capturing the range of relevant impacts on natural and human systems under diff…
Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises
Adoption of irrigation water policies to guarantee water supply: A choice experiment
Exploring the feasibility of private micro flood insurance provision in Bangladesh
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of the provision of micro flood insurance as an effective tool for spreading disaster risks in developing countries and examines the role of the institutional-organisational framework in assisting the design and implementation of such a micro flood insurance market. In Bangladesh, a private insurance market for property damage and livelihood risk due to natural disasters does not exis…
Informing micro insurance contract design to mitigate climate change catastrophe risks using choice experiments
The main objective of this paper is to assess demand for catastrophe insurance in one of the most flood-prone developing countries in the world and to estimate rural household willingness-to-pay for different micro insurance policies to reduce catastrophic flood risks and socio-economic vulnerability. A large-scale rural household survey was conducted targeting more than 1,200 heads of households in five different risk-prone districts in Banglade…
Incentivizing the future adoption of best management practices on agricultural land to protect water resources: The role of past participation and experiences
Public preferences for marine plastic litter management across Europe
Plastic pollution is one of the most challenging problems affecting the marine environment of our time. Based on a unique dataset covering four European seas and eight European countries, this paper adds to the limited empirical evidence base related to the societal welfare effects of marine litter management. We use a discrete choice experiment to elicit public willingness-to-pay (WTP) for macro and micro plastic removal to achieve Good Environm…
Measuring the economic value of urban river restoration
The economic impacts of water supply restrictions due to climate and policy change: A transboundary river basin supply-side input-output analysis
Hybrid Identity. Exploring a Dutch Protestant community of faith
Communities of faith develop their identity in dialogue with changing social and cultural contexts. This article presents a single case of identity formation in a local congregation of the Protestants Church in the Netherlands, in a changing environment. Out of one specific congregational practice, namely the liturgical (non)-affirmation of same-sex marriages, the complexity of identity construction in a plural and diverse congregation is shown. …
Common Goods and Private Profits: Traditional and Modern Communal Land Management in Portugal
In Portugal still exist large tracts of communally owned land used for grazing, gathering, and for provision of fertilizer. Within users' communities inequality can persist as one's capability to exploit a communal resource is related to access to private means of production: cattle, man-power, and land. Communal land has become private property by usurpation, sales by local authorities, and partitioning amongst the commoners after state interven…
Ecosystem services value, research needs, and policy relevance: A commentary
The charcoal commodity chain in Maputo: Access and sustainability
(1999). The charcoal commodity chain in Maputo: access and sustainability. Southern African Forestry Journal: Vol. 185, No. 1, pp. 27-34.
Changing Name-Tags: A Legal Anthropological Approach to Communal Lands in Portugal
This paper aims to illuminate issues concerning common property rights in land using the 'thick' mode of analysis through a legal anthropological study of communal lands in Portugal. It sees the composition of the bundle of rights constituting any particular property as malleable, and argues that a successful claim to attach to it a particular name-tag (as 'state', 'common', 'private' or other land) may produce a strategic advantage.The terminolo…
Innovative and responsive? A longitudinal analysis of the speed of EU environmental policy making, 1967-97
In institutional terms, the European Union (EU) is considerably 'thicker' than it was thirty years ago, with many new layers of decision-making procedure and myriad new actors, including almost twice as many member states. Conventional wisdom suggests that policy systems, in which policy development depends upon securing agreement among a concurrent majority of actors, are generally slow and collectively sub-optimal. However, a longitudinal analy…
Environmental value transfer: State of the art and future prospects
Towards an integrated environmental assessment for wetland and catchment management
This paper develops a decision support system for evaluation of wetland ecosystem management strategy and examines its, so far partial, application in a case study of an important complex coastal wetland known as the Norfolk and Suffolk Broads, in the east of England, UK. Most managed ecosystems are complex and often poorly understood hierarchically organized systems. Capturing the range of relevant impacts on natural and human systems under diff…
Integrated ecological, economic and social impact assessment of alternative flood control policies in the Netherlands
Do stated preference methods stand the test of time? A test of the stability of contingent values and models for health risks when facing an extreme event
About Bridges and Bonds: Community Responses to The 2000 Floods in Mabalane District, Mozambique
Massive floods hit Mozambique in 2000.1 Many of the affected regions benefited from external aid. This paper investigates how the floods impacted on two communities in the interior of the Limpopo Valley, which did not receive significant assistance during the event and in the immediate aftermath. Drawing on the livelihood approach, it focuses on the role of two types of local resources: knowledge and social capital. The paper shows that the scale…
Socioeconomic Vulnerability and Adaptation to Environmental Risk: A Case Study of Climate Change and Flooding in Bangladesh
In this article we investigate the complex relationship between environmental risk, poverty, and vulnerability in a case study carried out in one of the poorest and most flood‐prone countries in the world, focusing on household and community vulnerability and adaptive coping mechanisms. Based upon the steadily growing amount of literature in this field we develop and test our own analytical model. In a large‐scale household survey carried out in …
Ecosystem Services and Economic Theory: Integration for Policy‐relevant Research
It has become essential in policy and decision‐making circles to think about the economic benefits (in addition to moral and scientific motivations) humans derive from well‐functioning ecosystems. The concept of ecosystem services has been developed to address this link between ecosystems and human welfare. Since policy decisions are often evaluated through cost–benefit assessments, an economic analysis can help make ecosystem service research op…
General equilibrium modelling of the direct and indirect economic impacts of water quality improvements in the Netherlands at national and river basin scale
The impact of the bird flu on public willingness to pay for the protection of migratory birds
Integrated hydro-economic modelling: Approaches, key issues and future research directions
Hybrid Identity. Exploring a Dutch Protestant community of faith
Communities of faith develop their identity in dialogue with changing social and cultural contexts. This article presents a single case of identity formation in a local congregation of the Protestants Church in the Netherlands, in a changing environment. Out of one specific congregational practice, namely the liturgical (non)-affirmation of same-sex marriages, the complexity of identity construction in a plural and diverse congregation is shown. …
Respondent uncertainty in a contingent market for carbon offsets
Mobile Phones in Mozambique: The Street Trade in Airtime in Maputo City
ACCORDING TO THE United Nations Development Programme (UNDP 2006), Mozambique is one of the ten least developed countries of the world. Yet, cellular phones have washed over the country as a tsunami. About 17 per cent of its 20.5 million inhabitants have now access to this technology (Brouwer and Brito 2008; National Bureau of Statistics 2008). The speed with which mobile phones has been adopted—from a mere 7500 in 1997 to about 3.5 million clien…
Informing micro insurance contract design to mitigate climate change catastrophe risks using choice experiments
The main objective of this paper is to assess demand for catastrophe insurance in one of the most flood-prone developing countries in the world and to estimate rural household willingness-to-pay for different micro insurance policies to reduce catastrophic flood risks and socio-economic vulnerability. A large-scale rural household survey was conducted targeting more than 1,200 heads of households in five different risk-prone districts in Banglade…
Bio-economic modeling of water quality improvements using a dynamic applied general equilibrium approach
Exploring the feasibility of private micro flood insurance provision in Bangladesh
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the feasibility of the provision of micro flood insurance as an effective tool for spreading disaster risks in developing countries and examines the role of the institutional-organisational framework in assisting the design and implementation of such a micro flood insurance market. In Bangladesh, a private insurance market for property damage and livelihood risk due to natural disasters does not exis…
Testing participation constraints in contract design for sustainable soil conservation in Ethiopia
Directional heterogeneity in WTP models for environmental valuation
Evolutionary modelling of the macro-economic impacts of catastrophic flood events
Developing a value function for nature development and land use policy in Flanders, Belgium
Economics (35 works) · Business (29 works) · Economic and Environmental Valuation (24 works) · Geography (23 works) · Environmental resource management (19 works) · Natural resource economics (18 works) · Ecology (17 works) · Environmental Science (16 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Environmental economics (11 works)