Geraldine Murphy

Geraldine joined SEMRU as an EPA-funded researcher in February 2012. She has a BA (Mod) in Zoology from TCD, an MSc (Agr) in Environmental Resource Management from UCD and is currently completing her doctorate thesis in economics from NUIG. This thesis is concerned with how farmers’ participation choices in the Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS) impacted on both the Irish environment and farms. Her current research with the EPA involves the use of discrete choice methods to calculate generic values for water resources in Ireland. Using a choice experiment (CE), Geraldine will estimate the economic value that Irish citizens place on water quality itself as well as the factors that impact upon it. In addition, she intends to investigate the effects of different payment vehicles on CE valuation for generic water features.

Publications

Murphy, G., Hynes, S., Murphy, E., O’Donoghue, C., Green, S., (2011) Assessing the compatibility of farmland biodiversity and habitats to the specifications of agri-environmental schemes using a multinomial logit approach, Ecological Economics 71, 111-121.

Murphy, G., Hynes, S., Murphy, E., O’Donoghue, C., Green, S., (2011) Do farmers in agri environmental schemes make appropriate ecological choices for the habitat on their farms? Modelling the biodiversity undertakings chosen within the Irish Rural Environment Protection Scheme, NUIG Department of Economics Working Paper No. 0175.
Available at: http://www.economics.nuigalway.ie/

Murphy, G., Clancy, D., O’Donoghue, C., Quinlan, G., Thorne, F., (in press). Trends in the tillage sector in O’Donoghue, C., Kinsella, A., Connolly, L. (eds) “Current economic issues in Irish agriculture” Oak Tree Press, Co. Cork.

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