About me

Susana is Professor of Environmental Economics, former Academic Director of 杏吧论坛 Summer School, and Associate of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She joined the Department of Geography and Environment in 2008, where she was Head of Department from 2017-2020, having previously worked at Imperial College London. In 2021, Susana became the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor (Research).

Much of Susana’s research has been in the area of social value measurement, testing and applying economic valuation techniques to a wide range of environmental, health and social impacts related to ecosystem services, wildlife conservation, air and water pollution, chemicals, climate change, low carbon technologies, and cultural heritage. She has also undertaken research on the links between subjective well-being and the environment, and more recently on using insights from behavioural economics to promote sustainable behaviours.

Susana has over 100 scientific publications, including papers in leading journals of her field (Journal of Environmental Economics & Management, Environmental & Resource Economics, Ecological Economics, Environment & Development Economics, Global Environmental Change, World Development, Environment & Planning A, Urban Studies, Energy Policy) and 4 books, including a flagship OECD book on . She has many years of experience in research, advice and policy work for research councils, government, industry, charities and international organisations.

Susana currently leads a project for the OECD evaluating the impact of chemicals on IQ, as well as projects for 杏吧论坛 Middle East Centre estimating preferences for climate change policies in the Gulf Region, and for water conservation in Kuwait. She sits on the Culture & Heritage Capital Advisory Board, of the UK Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport.

Expertise Details

Environmental economics; Environmental policy; Environmental valuation; Social value; Cultural economics; Life satisfaction and wellbeing; Behavioural environmental economics

Measuring social value: testing and developing non-market valuation techniques, with applications to environment, health, cultural heritage and other areas of public policy

Wellbeing and the environment: exploring links between subjective well-being and the environment

Behavioural environmental economics: using insights from behavioural economics to promote sustainable behaviours

Environment; Wildlife Conservation; Energy; Creative Industries and Culture; Policy and Regulatory Bodies

· Shreedhar, G. and Mourato, S. (2020) . Environmental & Resource Economics 76: 963-999.

· Lawton, R., Fujiwara, D., and Mourato, S. (2020) . Journal of Environmental Economics & Policy 9(3): 338-354.

· Shreedhar, G. and Mourato, S. (2019) . Ecological Economics 158: 180-193.

· Fujiwara, D., Lawton, R., and Mourato, S. (2019) . Journal of Cultural Economics 43(4): 639-666.

· Atkinson, G., Groom, B., Hanley, N. and Mourato, S. (2018) . Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis 9(1): 97-119.

· Atkinson, G., Braathen, N.-A., Groom, B. and Mourato, S. (2018) . OECD, Paris.

· Hargreaves-Allen, V., Mourato, S. and Milner-Gulland. E.J. (2017) . PloS ONE 12(6): e0179394.

· Contu, D., Strazzera, E. and Mourato, S. (2016) . Ecological Economics 127: 37-58.

· O'Garra, T. and Mourato, S. (2019) . Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 2015; 1 DOI: 10.1080/21606544.2015.1100560

· MacKerron, G. and Mourato, S. (2013) . Global Environmental Change, 23 (5). pp. 992-1000. ISSN 0959-3780

· Gibbons, S., Mourato, S. and Resende, G. (2013) . Environmental & Resource Economics, 57 (2). pp. 175-196. ISSN 0924-6460

· Atkinson, G., Bateman, I. and Mourato, S. (2012) . Oxford Review of Economic Policy 28 (1): 22-47.

· Atkinson, G., Morse-Jones, S., Mourato, S. and Provins, A. (2012) . Environmental and Resource Economics 51 (4): 497-523

· Cranford, M. and Mourato, S. (2011) . Ecological Economics 71: 89-98.

· MacKerron, G. and Mourato, S. (2009) . Ecological Economics 68: 1441-1453.

· Atkinson, G. and Mourato, S. (2008) . Annual Review of Environment and Resources 33: 317-344.

· Atkinson, G., Mourato, S. and Szymanski, S. (2008) . Urban Studies 45(2): 419-444.