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publications

Members of the group are very active in publishing in academic journals and also frequently contribute to books, conferences, professional newsletters, and publications and events geared toward general audiences. Members of the group have published in some of the leading academic journals in the field including Land Economics, American Journal of Agricultural Economics and Environmental and Resource Economics. Please note that Working Papers often represent early stages in the presentation of research findings, and should not be quoted without permission from the authors. All the most recent Working Papers, marked with *, are downloadable as PDF files. The following is a brief list of some recent publications. For a more complete listing, please contact faculty/ group members directly.

Articles

Adhikari, B., Di Falco, S. and Lovett, J.C. 2004. Household characteristics and forest dependency: evidence from common property forest management in Nepal. Ecological Economics 42 (2): 245-257.

Buckley, C., Hynes, S., van Rensburg, T.M. and Doherty, E. 2009. Walking in the Irish countryside - Landowner preferences and attitudes to improved public access provision. Journal of Environmental Planning and Management, 52(8): 1053-1070.

Buckley, C., van Rensburg, T.M., Hynes, S. 2009. Recreational demand for farm commonage in Ireland: A contingent valuation assessment. Land Use Policy 26(3): 846-854.

Buckley, C., Hynes, S., van Rensburg, T.M. 2008. Public access for walking in the Irish counrtyside – how can supply be improved? Forthcoming in Tearmann: Irish Journal of Agri-Environmental Research 6: 1-14.

Buckley, C., van Rensburg, T.M., Hynes, S. 2008. What are the financial returns to agriculture from a common property resource? A case study of Irish commonage. Journal of Farm Management 13(4): 1-15.

Christie, M., Hanley, N., Hynes, S. 2007. Valuing enhancements to forest recreation using choice experiment and contingent behaviour methods. Journal of Forest Economics 13(2-3): 75-102.

Damery, David T., Yadav, L., Zhao, Y. (2007-08) “Finding and Removing Barriers to Sustainable Harvest and Primary Processing of Massachusetts Native Woods.” USDA Federal State Market Improvement Grant Report

Di Falco, S. and Perrings, C. 2003. Crop genetic diversity, productivity and stability of agro ecosystems: a theoretical and empirical investigation. Scottish Journal of Political Economy 50(2): 207-216.

Di Falco, S., Penov, I., Alexsiev, A., van Rensburg, T.M. 2010. Agro biodiversity, farm profits and land fragmentation: evidence from Bulgaria. Land Use Policy 27(3): 763-771.

Di Falco, S., van Rensburg, T.M. 2008. Making the commons work: conservation and cooperation in Ireland. Land Economics 84(4): 620-634.

Evans, T., Kelley, H. 2004, ’Multi-scale analysis of a household level agent-based model of land cover change’, Journal of Environmental Management 72(1-2): 57-72.

Evans, T.P., Kelley, H. 2008. Assessing the transition from deforestation to forest regrowth with an agent based model of land cover change for South-Central Indiana. Geoforum 39(2): 819-832.

Evans, T.P., Sun, W., Kelley, H. 2006. Spatially explicit experiments for the exploration of land-use decision-making dynamics. International Journal of Geographical Information Science 20(9): 1013-1037.

Foley, N., Armstrong, C.W., Kahui, V. and van Rensburg, T.M. Estimating linkages Between Redfish and Cold-Water Coral on the Norwegian coast. Marine Resource Economics 25: 105-120

Foley, N., van Rensburg, T.M and Armstrong, C.W., The ecological and economic value of cold-water coral ecosystems. Ocean and Coastal Management Forthcoming.

Fountas, S. and Lally, B. 1999. The relationship between inflation and wage growth in the Irish Economy. Applied Economics Letters, 6(5): 317-321.

Glenn, H., Wattage, P., Mardle, S., van Rensburg, T.M., Grehan, A., Foley, N. Marine protected areas - substantiating their worth. Marine Policy 34(3): 421-430.

Grehan, A.J., van den Hove, S., Armstrong, C.W., Long, R., van Rensburg, T.M., Gunn, V., Mikkelsen, E., De Mol, B. and Hain, S. 2009. HERMES promoting ecosystem-based management and the sustainable use and governance of deep-water resources. Oceanography, 22(1): 154-167.

Hynes, S., Hanley, N. 2006. Preservation versus developmenton Irish rivers: Whitewater kayaking and hydro-power in Ireland. Land Use Policy 23(2): 170-180.

Hynes, S., Buckley, C, van Rensburg, T.M. 2007. Recreational pursuits on marginal farm land: a discrete-choice model of Irish farm commonage recreation. Economic and Social Review 38: (1). 63-84.

Hynes, S., Cahill, B. 2007. Valuing the benefits to the local community of supplying recreational facilities in community owned forests: an application of the contingent valuation method. Small Scale Forestry 6(3): 219-231.

Hynes, S., Hanley, N., Garvey, E., 2007. Up the proverbial creek without a paddle: Accounting for variable participant skill levels in recreational demand modeling. Environmental and Resource Economics 36(4): 413-426 .

Hynes, S., Hanley, N. and Scarpa, R. 2008. Effects on welfare measures of alternative means of accounting for preference heterogeneity in recreational demand models. American Journal of Agricultural Economics 90 (4): 1011-1027.

Hynes, S., Farrell, N., Murphy, E., O’Donoghue, C.2008. Modelling habitat conservation: A spatial microsimulation approach. Ecological Economics 66: (2-3): 258-269.

Hynes S., Morrissey, K., O'Donoghue, C., Clarke, G., 2009. A Spatial microsimulation analysis of methane emissions from Irish agriculture , Ecological Complexity 6(2): 135-146.

Hynes, S. and Hanley, N., 2009. The ’’Crex crex’’ lament: Estimating landowners willingness to pay for corncrake conservation on Irish farmland, Biological Conservation 142: 180-188.

Hynes, S., Hanley, N. and O'Donoghue, C. 2009. Alternative treatments of the cost of time in recreational demand models: an application to whitewater kayaking in Ireland. Journal of Environmental Management 90(2):1014-1021.

Hynes, S., Hanley, N., O’ Donoghue, C. A combinatorial optimization approach to non-market environmental Benedit aggregation via simulated populations. Land Economics. Forthcoming.

Keane, M. J., 1997. Rural and local development in Ireland: Exploring the theory-practice interface. Regional Studies, 31(2): 173-178.

Keane, M. J. and Garvey. E., 2005. Measuring the employment effects of the Rural Renewal Tax Scheme. Regional Studies 40(3): 359-374.

Keane, M. J. 1997. Quality and pricing in tourism destinations. Annals of Tourism Research 24(1): 117-130.

Keane, M. J., 1996. Sustaining quality in tourism destinations: an economic model with an application. Applied Economics, 28(12): 1545-1553.

Kelley, H. 2004, Asset pricing with behavioral traders: A test of the country fund discount, Journal of Behavioral Finance 5(4).

Kelley, H., Busemeyer, J., 2008, A comparison of models for learning how to integrate multiple cues in order to forecast continuous criteria: A comparison of least squares and neural network approaches’, Journal of Mathematical Psychology 52 .

Lally, B., Riordan, B., van Rensburg, T. 2009. Controlling agricultural emissions of nitrates: Regulations versus taxes. Journal of Farm Management, 13(8): 557-573.

Mill, G.A., van Rensburg, T.M., Hynes, S. and Dooley, C., 2007. Preferences for multiple use forest management in Ireland: citizen and consumer perspectives. Ecological Economics 60(3): 642-653.

Murphy, James J., Stevens, Thomas H. Yadav, L. “A Comparison of Induced Value and Home-Grown Value Experiments to Test for Hypothetical Bias in Contingent Valuation.” Environmental and Resource Economics. (Forthcoming)

Tom van Rensburg, Hugh Kelley, Lava Yadav. November 2009. "Farming for Conservation of the Upland Landscape and Biodiversity in the Burren". NUIG Department of Economics Working Paper Number: 0153

van Rensburg, T.M., Murphy, E. and Rocks, P. 2009. Commonage land and farmer uptake of the rural environment protection scheme in Ireland. Land Use Policy 26(2): 345-355.

van Rensburg, T.M., Mill, G.A., Common, M. and Lovett, J. 2002. Preferences and multiple use forest management. Ecological Economics 43(2): 231-244

Yadav, L., van Rensburg, T., Kelley, H., (2010). " Comparing the Conventional Stated Preference Valuation Technique with a Prediction Approach: Which is more Reliable? NUIG Department of Economics Working Paper

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