The management of stormwater runoff via distributed green infrastructures delivers a number
of environmental services that go beyond the reduction of flood risk, which has been the …

Optimal conversion defines rules that determine the rate at which land is irreversibly moved
out of conservation into production. What are the implications on these rules of allowing for a …

The sustainability of dynamic natural systems often depends on their capacity to adapt to
uncertain climate-related changes, where different management options may be combined to …

Water shortages worldwide are increasingly managed via supply diversification. Yet efforts
to optimise diversification have thus far failed to account for important empirical evidence on …

Although water supply diversification has been proposed as a solution to dwindling water
reserves, the optimal mix of natural and manufactured sources of water remains largely …

Academics and policymakers generally agree that energy infrastructure should be subject to
price regulation. More and more critics of modern regulatory approaches, however, point to …

Ecological rehabilitation is subject to a variety of risks affecting the likely return on investment.
We propose an options approach to allocating scarce conservation funds that explicitly …

Climate change predictions include forecasts of higher variability in rainfall and river flows
leading to greater uncertainty about future availability of water across urban and agricultural …

Import restrictions on biological materials are used widely as protection against exotic invasive
pests and pathogens. While a scientific risk assessment is needed to justify an import ban …

Incentivized experiments and stated preference methods are commonly viewed as
substitutes in preference elicitation. We leverage the distinct strengths of each approach by …