Dr Ken Willis

Professor of Environmental Economics
Email: Ken.Willis@newcastle.ac.uk , Tel: 0191 222 7807

RESEARCH INTERESTS

the economics of environmental regulation and management: tax and subsidy mechanisms, and command-and-control measures;

environmental benefit estimation techniques: travel-cost models, hedonic price models, contingent valuation methods, stated preference or choice experiment methods, and contingent ranking techniques;

environmental cost measures: averting and preventative expenditure, and replacement cost techniques; and opportunity cost of agri-environmental schemes;

discounted cash flow; cost-benefit analysis; decision and risk analysis; applied to environmental issues, housing policy, and industrial development, and transport;

directed and worked on over 30 different contingent valuation studies; undertaken more than 10 different stated preference (choice experiment) studies; covering a wide variety of issues from air pollution, bathing water, biodiversity, conservation areas, cultural heritage, earthquake risk mitigation, electricity supply interruptions, environmentally sensitive areas, fishing, forests, green belts, historic buildings, recreation values of canals, rivers, etc., landscape, low flow alleviation in rivers, property attributes, quarries, SSSI, traffic calming schemes, utility networks, waiting time for social housing, waste disposal, water quality, and wildlife preservation.

worked on environmental economics projects in Ghana, India, Malaysia, and Iran.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

Books

Peter Nijkamp, Raymond Florax and Kenneth G. Willis (2002) (eds.) Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment: Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
K.G. Willis, R.K. Turner and I.J. Bateman (2001) (eds.). Urban Planning and Management. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
I.J. Bateman and K.G. Willis (1999) (eds.). Valuing Environmental Preferences: theory and practice of the contingent valuation method in the US, EU, and developing countries. Oxford University Press, Oxford.
G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (1999). Economic Valuation of the Environment. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
K.G. Willis, K. Button, and Peter Nijkamp (eds.) (1999). Environmental Valuation: Volume 1: methods and anomalies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.
K.G. Willis, K. Button, and Peter Nijkamp (eds.) (1999). Environmental Valuation: Volume 2: multi-attribute programmes, validity, allocation issues, and case studies. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Journal Articles

G.D. Garrod, Riccardo Scarpa and K.G. Willis (2002). Estimating benefits of traffic calming on through routes: a choice experiment approach. Journal of Transport Economics and Policy 36, 211-231.
K.G. Willis (2002). Iterative bid design in contingent valuation and the estimation of the revenue maximising price for a cultural good. Journal of Cultural Economics 26, 307-324.
K.G. Willis, P.L. McMahon, G.D. Garrod,and N.A. Powe (2002). Water companies service performance and environmental trade-offs. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 45 (3), 363-379.
Riccardo Scarpa, K.G. Willis and G.D. Garrod (2001). Estimating willingness-to-pay for speed reduction from dichotomous-choice contingent valuation responses with follow-up: the case of rural trunk roads. Environmental and Resource Economics 20(4), 281-304.
K.G. Willis and G.D. Garrod (2001). Energy Efficiency: economic constraints to environmental quality. International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management 1, 334-337.
G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (2000). Economic approaches to valuing the environmental costs and benefits of mineral and aggregate extraction. Minerals and Energy 15, 12-20.
Asgary, K.G. Willis and S.A. Hosseini (2000). The Impacts of the Caspian Sea Level Rise on the Housing Market. Journal of Humanities 7, 1-9.
G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (1999). Methodological issues in valuing the benefits of environmentally sensitive areas. Journal of Rural Studies 15, 111-117.
A.G. Tipple, D. Korboe, G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (1999). Housing Supply in Ghana: a study of Accra, Kumasi and Berekum. Progress in Planning 51 (4), 255-324.
K.G. Willis and G.D. Garrod (1999). Externalities from extraction of aggregates: regulation by tax or land-use controls. Resources Policy 25, 77-86.
K.G. Willis and G.D. Garrod (1999). Angling and recreation values of -flow alleviation in rivers. Journal of Environmental Management 57, 71-83.

Book Chapters

C. Brunsdon and K.G. Willis (2002). Meta-analysis: a Bayesian perspective, in Peter Nijkamp, Raymond Florax and Ken Willis (eds.) Comparative Environmental Economic Assessment: Meta-Analysis and Benefit Transfer. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham

G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (2002). Northumbria: castles, cathedrals and towns, in Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (eds.) Valuing Cultural Heritage: applying environmental valuation techniques to historic buildings, monuments and artifacts. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

Patrizia Riganti and K.G. Willis (2002). Component and temporal value reliability in cultural goods: the case of Roman Imperial remains near Naples, in Ståle Navrud and Richard C. Ready (eds.) Valuing Cultural Heritage: applying environmental valuation techniques to historic buildings, monuments and artifacts. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (2001). Estimating lost amenity due to landfill waste disposal, in R.K. Turner, I.J. Bateman and J. Powell (eds.) Waste Management and Planning. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

K.G. Willis and G.D Garrod (2001). Estimating the benefits of alleviating low flow in the River Darent, in Dominic Moran and Paul McMahon (eds.) Economic Valuation of Water Resources: Policy and Practice. Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM), London.

K.G. Willis (2001). Sustainable Urban Planning and Management: an overview, in K.G. Willis, R.K. Turner and I.J. Bateman (2001) (eds.). Urban Planning and Management. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham.

K.G. Willis (2000). Valuing the maintenance and restoration of cultural heritage sites, in Xavier Greffe and K.G. Willis (eds.) La Valutazione Economica per la Conservazione del Patrimonio Culturale. Restauro: quanderni di restauro dei monumenti e di urbanistica dei centri antichi 151/2000. Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli.

K.G. Willis and G.D. Garrod (2000). Tourism and recreation surveys: the problems of sample selection and truncation bias, in Helen Briassoulis and Jan van der Straaten (eds.) Tourism and the Environment: regional, economic cultural and policy issues. Kluwer, Dordrecht. .

Anna MacGillivray, Dan Siddy, G.D. Garrod and K.G. Willis (1999). Valuing Management Standards for Biodiversity in British Forests: a research project for the UK Forestry Commission, in Charles Stewart-Roper and Andy Park (eds.) The Living Forest: non-market benefits of forestry. The Stationary Office, London.