Research

My Google Scholar profile, which may well be more up-to-date than this list of papers, is here. I'm more than happy to send over copies of these papers in case you cannot access them, just drop me a line on b.j.balmford [at] exeter.ac.uk!

Publications

15. Emogor, C.A., Wasser, S.K., Coad, L., Balmford, B., Ingram, D.J., Wijesinghe, A., Atsu, B.A., Bassey, F., Ogu, D.S., Okafor, N. and Balmford, A., (2025). Pangolin hunting in southeast Nigeria is motivated more by local meat consumption than international demand for scales. Nature Ecology & Evolution.
14. Balmford, A., Ball, T.S., Balmford, B., Bateman, I.J., Buchanan, G., Cerullo, G., d’Albertas, F., Eyres, A., Filewod, B., Fisher, B. and Green, J.M., (2025). Time to fix the biodiversity leak. Science.
13. Emogor, C.A., Ingram, D.J., Balmford, A., Fletcher Jr, R.J., Detoeuf, D., Balmford, B., Agbor, D.O. and Coad, L., (2025). Predictors of frequency and success of wild meat hunting trips and carcass prices in an African biodiversity hotspot. Human Ecology.
12. Binner, A.R., Addicott, E.T., Balmford, B., Day, B.H., Mancini, M.C., Williamson, D. and Bateman, I.J., (2025). Using the natural capital framework to integrate biodiversity into sustainable, efficient and equitable environmental-economic decision-making. Philosophical Transactions B.
11. Mancini, M., Collins, R., Addicott, E., Balmford, B., Binner, A., Bull, J., Day, B., Eigenbrod, F., Ermgassen, S. zu, Faccioli, M., Fezzi, C., Groom, B., Milner-Gulland, E.J., Owen, N., Tingley, D., Wright, E., Bateman, I. (2024). Biodiversity offsets perform poorly for both people and nature, but better approaches are available. OneEarth.
10. Bateman, IJ., Binner, A., Addicott, E., Balmford, B., Cho, F.H.T., Daily, G.C., De-Gol, A., Eisenbarth, S., Faccioli, M., Ferguson-Gow, H., Ferrini, S., Fezzi, C., Gannon, K., Groom, B., Harper, A.B., Harwood, A., Hillier, J., Hulme, M.F., Lee, C.F., Lovett, A., Liuzzo, L., Matthews, R., Mancini, M., Morison, J.I.L., Owen, N., Pearson, R., Polasky, S., Siriwardena, G., Smith, P., Snowdon, P., Tippett, P., Vetter, S., Vinjili, S., Vossler, C.A., Watson, R.T., Williamson, D., Day, B.H., (2025) How to make land use policy decisions: Integrating science and economics to deliver connected climate, biodiversity and food objectives Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
9. Emogor, C.A., Coad, L., Balmford, B., Ingram, D.J., Detoeuf, D., Fletcher Jr, R.J., Imong, I., Dunn, A., Balmford, A. (2024) Changes in wild meat hunting and use by rural communities during the COVID‐19 socio‐economic shock Conservation Letters.
8. Balmford, B., M. Madeleine, and O. P. Hauser (2024). Voting sustains intergenerational cooperation, even when the tipping point threshold is ambiguous. Environmental and Resource Economics.
7. Balmford, B., Collins, J., Day, B., Lindsay, L., & Peacock, J. (2023). Pricing rules for PES auctions: Evidence from a natural experiment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management.
​6. B. Balmford, J.D. Annan, J.C. Hargreaves, M. Altoé, I.J. Bateman (2020). Cross-Country Comparisons
of Covid-19: Policy, Politics and the Price of Life. Environmental and Resource Economics.
5. A. Balmford, B. Fisher, G.M. Mace, D.S. Wilcove, B. Balmford (2020) COVID-19: Analogues and
lessons for tackling the extinction and climate crises. Current Biology.
4. B. Balmford, I.J. Bateman, K. Bolt, B.H. Day, S. Ferrini (2019) The Value of Statistical Life for
Adults and Children: Comparisons of the contingent valuation and chained approaches. Resource and Energy Economics (SI in honour of Greg Poe).
3. B. Balmford, R.E. Green, M. Onial, B. Phalan, A. Balmford (2019) How imperfect can land sparing be
before land sharing is more favourable for wild species? Journal of Applied Ecology, 56, 1, 73-84.
2. I.J. Bateman, B. Balmford (2018) Public funding for public goods: A post-Brexit perspective on
principles for agricultural policy. Land Use Policy, 79, 293-300.
1. B. Balmford, J. Balmford, A. Balmford, S. Blakeman, A. Manica, R.M. Cowling (2006) Diurnal versus
nocturnal pollination of Brunsvigia gregaria R.A. Dyer (Amaryllidaceae) at a coastal site. South African
Journal of Botany, 72, 2, 291-294.

Book chapters

1. D.W. Smith, K.A. Cassidy, D.R. Stahler, D.R. MacNulty, Q. Harrison, B. Balmford, E.E. Stahler,
E.E. Brandell, T. Coulson (2020) Population Dynamics and Demography in Yellowstone Wolves: Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park, D.W. Smith, D.R. Stahler, D.R. MacNulty (ed.).

Working papers
(Please send an email if you would like a copy)

  • Incentivising efficient effort when monitoring individuals is costly. With I.J. Bateman, B. Day, and G. Smith. Accepted, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists​.
  • Aligning biodiversity metrics with public preferences for environmental policy. With S. Meier, M. Faccioli and B. Groom. Reject and Resubmit Journal of Environmental Economics and Management
  • ​A general relationship between extinction risk and carrying capacity. With T. Ball et al. Submitted​

Work in progress

  • Designing markets for bundled environmental goods. With L. Lindsay and B. Day
  • Forecasting additionality in dynamic forests. With V. Inkinen et al.
  • Forest conservation policy, additionality, and socio-environmental implications. With S. Meier and V. Inkinen
  • Comparing sealed-bid and clock multi-unit reverse auctions. With L. Lindsay
  • Bidding in auctions with divided attention. With L. Lindsay​

Other service

In general, I am keen to get involved in activities which improve the research environment. I was the lead organiser of the LEEPin2019 conference (June 2019), which brought together some of the best environmental economists in the world. Alongside parallel and poster sessions (which included talks from Ian Bateman, Richard Carson, Ben Groom [then LSE], Roger von Haefen, Nick Hanley, Céline Nauges,  and Christian Vossler), there were keynote talks from Brett Day, Paul Ferraro, Cathy Kling, Georgina Mace and Steve Polasky.

With Ben Groom, I organised BIOECON 2022, hosted in Exeter, with plenary talks from Eyal Frank and Rachael Garrett, as well as pre-conference trips for participants to Dartmoor and to look for beavers.

I was also a co-organiser for an invite-only conference organised jointly with HM Treasury (April 2019) on how to implement The Green Book guidance on accounting for natural capital.

From 2020-2022 I, along with initially Michela Faccioli and then Frankie Cho, organised the LEEPout webinar series which builds on the success of LEEPin. We were lucky enough to host numerous excellent speakers, including Gretchen Daily, Antonio Bento, Kelsey Jack, Mar Reguant and Thomas Sterner. Currently, I am part of the committee which organises weekly environmental seminars for the wider department.

In-house, I set-up and organised a monthly Journal Club, in which we discussed a recent publication or working paper that took our interest. Our focus was on the environment and empirical papers more broadly, which meant pretty diverse reading, including the Cohn et al paper on lost wallets, Brodeur et al's Methods Matter, and Assunção et al's paper using the changes-in-changes approach to look at the impact of the black-listing policy on Amazonian deforestation.