|
Between 1995 and
2005 he was editor of the Cambridge University Press journal, Environment
and Development Economics, and he remains on the editorial board of this
and several other journals in environmental, resource and ecological
economics, and in conservation ecology. He is Past President of the International Society for Ecological Economics, a society formed to
bring together the insights of the ecological and economic sciences to aid
understanding and management of environmental problems. He has advised
various governmental, intergovernmental and international non-governmental
organizations as well as research funding agencies. In At ASU he directs
(with The Group
contributes to a number of international research projects
on issues relating to biodiversity change, conservation and development, and
supports training in biodiversity and ecosystem services both within ASU and
internationally. It runs the Biodiversity
and Ecosystem Services Training Network (BESTNet), a Research
Coordination Network funded by the National Science Foundation.
|
Research Activities |
|
Contact
ecoSERVICES Group Box 874501, Tempe, AZ 85287-4501, USA Tel: + 1 480 727 0427 |
|
Research |
Research on ecosystem services is conducted within the ecoSERVICES Group at ASU. The Group supports the Biodiversity and Ecosystem
Services Training Network (BESTNet)
One example of the research being undertaken on ecosystem services involves a collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI) to launch joint work on the ecosystem services generated by the Panama Canal Watershed. This project poses the following question: If the full array of (spatially and temporally distributed) ecosystem services delivered by specific landscapes, and the full set of (spatially and temporally distributed) beneficiaries of those services are taken into account, how should this affect landscape management? In this project we consider landscapes that deliver a range of ecosystem services at different geographical scales, and investigate the relationship between the scale of landscape management and the scale of the effects of landscape management. We will investigate how inclusion of a range of services with widely varying temporal and spatial impacts affects the sustainability of conservation and use strategies.
2. Invasive species
Globalization involves the closer integration of both socioeconomic and ecological systems. Integration of ecological systems occurs through the intentional or incidental movement of species associated with growth in trade and travel. Species movement has a number of potential but uncertain consequences. These include the emergence of novel zoonotic diseases along with changes in the diversity and structure of local species assemblages that affect their capacity to deliver ecosystem services. In many cases, the effect is to homogenize ecosystems with implications for both the correlation of risks across space and the resilience of individual systems. The resulting “portfolio effect” alters responses to environmental stressors.
One line of research, with William Brock
and
A second line of research focuses on the particular problem of pathogens - diseases being one example of invasive species. The ecoSERVICES Group leads SPIDER, a working group funded by NIMBioS. SPIDER brings together a group of ecologists, epidemiologists, mathematicians, and economists to develop mathematical models of disease risk. SPIDER models differ from standard epidemiological models of disease risk in two ways. First, SPIDER focuses on emerging infectious diseases (EIDs). These are infectious diseases that are caused by novel pathogens. Second, SPIDER focuses on endogenous risk. What makes disease risks endogenous is that the probability and consequences of an event such as disease emergence depends on people's reactions to that event. The concept of endogenous risk, though intuitively obvious, is often neglected in epidemiological modeling.
3. Urban ecosystems
A third research area involves the study of urban ecosystems and urban infrastructures. The project Sustainable Infrastructure for Water and Energy Supply (SINEWS) investigates the sustainability and resilience of power and water infrastructures in Phoenix. Using hedonic property pricing models we are estimating willingness to pay for the reliability of infrastructures, a proxy for the resilience of the system. The research also investigates interactions between the resilience of ecosystems and a number of ecosystem services and disservices.
|
Publications |
Books
Perrings C., H. Mooney and M. Williamson (eds). 2010. Bioinvasions and Globalization: Ecology, Economics, Management and Policy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Naeem, S., D. Bunker, A. Hector, M. Loreau andPerrings C (eds). 2009. Biodiversity, Ecosystem Functioning, and Human Wellbeing: An Ecological and Economic Perspective, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Perrings C (ed). 2008. Ecological Economics, Volumes I-IV, London, SAGE.
Perrings C. and J. Vincent (eds) 2003. Natural
Resource Accounting and Economic Development,
Perrings
C., M. Williamson and S. Dalmazzone (eds) 2000. The Economics of Biological Invasions,
Perrings
C. (ed) 2000. The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan
Africa: Mending the
Perrings
C. 1997. Economics of Ecological Resources: Selected Essays,
Costanza
R., C. Perrings and
Perrings
C. 1996. Sustainable Development
and Poverty Alleviation in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of
Perrings C., K.-G. Mäler, C.
Folke, C.S. Holling and B.-O. Jansson (eds) 1995. Biological
Diversity: Economic and Ecological
Issues.
Perrings C., K.-G. Mäler, C.
Folke, C.S. Holling and B.-O. Jansson (eds) 1994. Biodiversity Conservation: Problems and Policies.
Perrings C. 1987. Economy and
Environment: A Theoretical Essay on
the Interdependence of Economic and Environmental Systems.
Recent Papers
Touza J., C. Perrings and M.L. Chas Amil. 2009. Harvest Decisions and Spatial Landscape Attributes: The Case of Galician Communal Forests, Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI 10.1007/s10640-009-9335-z.PDF
Perrings C., and W.A. Brock. 2009 Irreversibility in economics, Annual Review of Resource Economics, DOI: 10.1146/annurev.resource.050708.144103.PDF
Brock W.A., A.P. Kinzig and C.Perrings. 2009. Modeling the Economics of Biodiversity and Environmental Heterogeneity, Environmental and Resource Economics, DOI 10.1007/s10640-009-9333-1.PDF
Avila S., C. Perrings and D. Raffaelli. 2009. An ecological economic model for watershed management: the case of Tonameca watershed, Oaxaca, Mexico. Ecological Economics 68: 2224–223.PDF
Carpenter S.R., H.A. Mooney, J. Agard, D. Capistrano, R. DeFries, S. Díaz, T. Dietz, A.K. Duraiappah, A. Oteng-Yeboah, H.M. Pereira, C. Perrings, W.V. Reid, J. Sarukhan, R. J. Scholes, A. Whyte. 2009. Science for Managing Ecosystem Services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106(5): 1305–1312. PDF
Ceddia M. G., M. Bartlett and C. Perrings. 2009. Quantifying the effect of buffer zones, crop areas and spatial aggregation on the externalities of genetically modified crops at the landscape level, Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment 129: 65–72. PDF
Perrings C. 2008. Biodiversity Conservation in Sea Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction: the Economic Problem. In K. N. Ninan (ed) Conserving and Valuing Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity Economic, Institutional and Social Challenges. Earthscan, London: 59-83.
Touza
J., M. Termansen and C. Perrings 2008. A bioeconomic approach to the
Faustmann-Hartman rule: ecological interactions and even-aged forest
management, Natural Resource Modeling 21 (4): 551–581.
Di
Falco S., M. Smale and C. Perrings 2008. The role of agricultural cooperatives in sustaining wheat diversity and productivity: the case of southern Italy, Environmental and Resource Economics 39:161–174. PDF
Perrings C. 2007. Going beyond panaceas: future
challenges, Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 104:15179–15180 PDF
Dehnen-Schmutz
K., J. Touza, C. Perrings and
M. Williamson. 2007 A century of the ornamental plant trade and its impact on
invasion success, Diversity and
Distributions 13:
527–534. PDF
Perrings C. 2007. Pests, pathogens and
poverty: biological invasions and agricultural dependence, in A. Kontoleon, U.
Pascual and T. Swanson (eds) Biodiversity
Economics: Principles, Methods and Applications, Cambridge University
Press,
Ceddia
M.G., M. Bartlett and Perrings C.
2007. Landscape gene flow, coexistence and threshold effects: The case of genetically
modified herbicide tolerant oilseed rape (Brassica napus), Ecological Modelling 205: 169-180. PDF
Dehnen-Schmutz K., J. Touza, C. Perrings and M. Williamson M. 2007. The horticultural trade and ornamental plant
invasions in
Perrings C. 2006. Ecological economics
after the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, International
Journal of Ecological Economics and Statistics 6: 8-22. PDF
Perrings C. 2006. Environment, poverty
and development, in J. Boyce, S.
Cullenberg, P.K. Pattanaik and R. Pollin (eds) Human Development in the Era of Globalization: Essays in Honour of Keith B. Griffin,
Perrings C. 2006. Resilience and
sustainable development, Environment and
Development Economics 11: 417–427. PDF
Loreau
M., A. Oteng-Yeboah, M.T.K. Arroyo, D. Babin, R. Barbault, M. Donoghue,
M. Gadgil, C. Häuser, C. Heip, A. Larigauderie, K. Ma, G. Mace, H.A. Mooney, C. Perrings, Raven P.,
Sarukhan J., Schei P., Scholes R.J. and Watson R.T.. 2006. Diversity without
representation, Nature 442, 245-246. PDF
Wätzold
F., M. Drechsler, C.W. Armstrong, S. Baumgärtner, V. Grimm, A. Huth, C. Perrings, H. Possingham, J. Shogren,
A. Skonhoft, J. Verboom-Vasiljev and C. Wissel 2006. Ecological-Economic
Modeling for Biodiversity Management: Potential, Pitfalls, and Prospects, Conservation Biology 20(4):
1034–1041. PDF
Kasulo
V. and C. Perrings 2006. Fishing
down the value chain: Biodiversity and access regimes in freshwater fisheries
— the case of
di
Falco S. and C. Perrings 2006.
Cooperatives, diversity and crop productivity in
Perrings C., L.
Jackson, K. Bawa, L. Brussaard, S. Brush, T. Gavin, R. Papa, U. Pascual, P. De
Ruiter, P. 2006. Conservation Biology 20(2):
263–264. PDF
di Falco S. and C. Perrings 2005. Crop biodiversity,
risk management and the implications of agricultural assistance, Ecological Economics.55(4): 459-466. PDF
Perrings C.
2005. Economics and the value of biodiversity and ecosystem services. In J.-P.
de Luc (ed) Biodiversity Science and
Governance: Proceedings of the International Conference,
Simonit S. and C. Perrings 2005. Indirect economic
indicators in bioeconomic fishery models: agricultural price indicators and
fish stocks in
Simonit S. F. Cattaneo and C. Perrings 2005. Modelling the hydrological
externalities of agriculture in wetlands: the case of rice in
Perrings C.,
S. Dalmazzone and M. Williamson, 2005. The Economics of Biological Invasions.
In H.A. Mooney, R.N. Mack, J.A.
McNeeley, L.E. Neville, P.J. Schei and J.K. Waage, eds, Invasive Alien Species: a new synthesis, SCOPE 63, Island Press,
Washington D.C.: 16-35.
Perrings C., K. Dehnen-Schmutz,
J. Touza and M. Williamson 2005. How to
manage biological invasions under globalization, Trends in Ecology and
Evolution 20(5): 212-215. PDF
Perrings C.
2005. Mitigation and adaptation strategies for the control of biological
invasions, Ecological Economics 52 (3): 315-325 PDF
di Falco S. and C. Perrings 2005. The role of risk
properties and farm risk aversion on crop diversity conservation, in Koundouri
P. (ed) Econometrics Informing Natural
Resources Management,
Perrings C.
and B.H.Walker 2004 Conservation
in the optimal use of rangelands. Ecological Economics 49: 119-128. PDF
Dehnen-Schmutz K., C. Perrings and M. Williamson 2004.
Controlling Rhododendron ponticum in the
Perrings C.2003.
The economics of abrupt climate change. Philosophical
Transactions: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 361(1810):
2043-2059. PDF
di Falco S. and C. Perrings 2003. Crop genetic
diversity, productivity and stability of agroecosystems: a theoretical and
empirical investigation, Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50(2):
207-216. PDF
Perrings C.
2003. Closed physical systems: a
model. in Hagemann H., Landesmann M. and Scazzieri R. (eds) The Economics of
Structural Change, III.
International library of critical writings in economics 157.
Perrings C.
and M. Gadgil 2003 . Conserving biodiversity: reconciling local and global
public benefits In Kaul I. , Conceicao P., le Goulven K. and Mendoza R.L. (eds)
Providing global public goods: managing globalization,
Horan R.D., C. Perrings, F. Lupi and E. Bulte 2002.
Biological pollution prevention strategies under ignorance: the case of invasive
species, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 84(5): 1303-1310. PDF
Perrings C. 2002. Biological invasions in aquatic
systems: the economic problem. Bulletin of Marine Science 70(2):
541-552. PDF A
version of this paper has also appeared in Kriström B. and Löfgren
K-G. (eds) Economic Theory for
the Environment: Essays in
Honour of Karl-Göran Mäler,
Brock W.A., K.-G. Mäler
and C. Perrings 2002. Resilience and
sustainability: the economic analysis of non-linear dynamic systems. In
Gunderson, L.H. and C.S.Holling, Panarchy: Understanding Transformations in
Systems of Humans and Nature. Island Press,
Costanza R., C. Cleveland and
C. Perrings 2002. The development of
ecological economics, in Nemetz P.N. (ed)
Bringing Business on Board: Sustainable Development and the B-School
Curriculum,
Perrings C.,
M. Williamson, E. B. Barbier, D. Delfino, S. Dalmazzone, J. Shogren, P.
Simmons, and A. Watkinson. 2002. Biological
invasion risks and the public good: an economic perspective. Conservation Ecology 6(1): 1.
[online] URL: http://www.consecol.org/vol6/iss1/art1
Perrings C.
2001. Modelling sustainable ecological-economic
development. In Folmer H.and Tietenberg T. (eds). International Yearbook of
Environmental and Resource Economics 2001/2: 179-201.
Perrings C.
and B. Hannon 2001. Spatial discounting: endogenous preferences and the
valuation of geographically distributed environmental externalities, Journal
of Regional Science 41(1): 23-38. PDF
Perrings C.
2001. The economics of biodiversity loss and agricultural development in low
income countries. In Lee D.R., and Barrett C.B. eds. Tradeoffs or Synergies?
Agricultural Intensification, Economic Development and the Environment,
Perrings C. 2000 Sustainability indicators on fisheries in integrated coastal areas management, Marine and Freshwater Research 51:513-522.
Ansuategi A. and C. Perrings 2000. Transboundary externalities in the environmental transition
hypothesis, Environment and Resource Economics 17(4): PDF
Perrings C. and D. Stern 2000. Modelling loss of resilience in
agroecosystems, Environment and Resource Economics 16(2): 185-210. PDF
Perrings C. and A. Ansuategi 2000. Sustainability, Growth and
Development, Journal of Economic Studies 27(1/2): 19-54. PDF
Editorial Boards
|
2005- |
|
|
2000- |
|
|
1997- |
International Yearbook of Environmental and Resource Economics |
|
1996- |
|
|
1990- |
|
|
1989- |
|
Courses 2009 |
SOS 512
Sustainable Resource Allocation, Spring 2009
SOS
535 People and Nature: Ecosystem Services, Fall 2009