Dr. Stephen Hynes

Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics NUI, Galway Galway Ireland Tel .++ 353 (0)91 524411 (ext. 3501) Fax. ++ 353 (0)91 524130 E-mail: stephen.hynesnuigalway.ie

Stephen is currently a senior researcher in the disciple of Economics in the National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland with responsibility for the program of research within the Socio-Economic Marine Research Unit (SEMRU). He has a strong background in applied environmental/natural resource economic research and extensive work experience in econometric modelling. Stephen has previously worked as an environmental economist in the Rural Economy Research Centre, Teagasc and as a lecturer in Economics in the Department of Economics NUI Galway. Stephen’s main research interest is in microeconomic behaviour analysis, related to natural resource/environmental and rural development policy and his work has been published by a number of the top ranked journals in the fields of agriculture, environmental and natural resource economics.

Recent Peer Reviewed Articles

Hynes, S., Hanley, N. and O’Donoghue, C. (2010). A Combinatorial Optimization Approach to Non-market Environmental Benefit Aggregation via Simulated Populations, Land Economics, 86 (2): 345–362.

Dillon, E.J., Hennessy, T. and Hynes S. (2010) Assessing the sustainability of Irish Agriculture, International Journal of Agricultural Sustainability, 8 (3): 1-17.

Howley, P., Hynes, S. and O'Donoghue, C. (2010). The citizen versus consumer distinction: An exploration of individuals' preferences in Contingent Valuation studies, Ecological Economics 69: 1524–1531.

Hynes, S., Morrissey, K., O’Donoghue, C. and Clarke, G. (2009). Building a Static Farm Level Spatial Microsimulation Model for Rural Development and Agricultural Policy Analysis in Ireland. International Journal of Agricultural Resources, Governance and Ecology, 8 (3): 282-299.

Hynes, S., Morrissey, K., O'Donoghue, C. and Clarke, G.. (2009) A Spatial Microsimulation Analysis of Methane Emissions from Irish Agriculture. Journal of Ecological Complexity 6: 135– 146.

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

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. 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.

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