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Professor of Environmental Economics and Science Leader, Sustainable Rural Systems
Dominic Moran (opens in new window)
Research Interests
Dominic is an applied economist specialising in the areas of environmental and resource economics and policy analysis in developed and developing countries.
His research focuses on applying economics to environmental management and the development of interdisciplinary approaches to resource allocation problems. He has particular interest in measurement of public preferences for environmental change and their use in policy making. Related interests include: environmental valuation methods for cost-benefit analysis for public policy (regulation); applications to water, energy, forestry and biological diversity, transportation, environmental/industrial competition and regulation, economic instruments for pollution control, health economics, climate change, the environment and the macroeconomy.
The majority of his work at SAC has addressed the issue of public goods provision from agriculture and rural land use. This encompasses the demand and supply of environmental amenity, environmental quality and diversity, animal health and welfare. Recent projects have also encompassed rural cohesion (service provision) and research prioritisation.
1989 BA Economics with Modern Languages. Stirling University
1990 MA (Econ). Agricultural Economics. Manchester University
1997 PhD Economics (Environment and Resource Economics), University College London
Selected Publications
Moran, D., Macleod, M., Wall, E., Eory V., McVittie, A., Barnes, A., Rees, R., Topp, C.F.E., Moxey, A. (2010). Marginal abatement cost curves for UK agricultural greenhouse gas emissions. Journal of Agricultural Economics 62: 93-118
Moran, D., MacLeod, M., Wall, E., Eory, V., McVittie, A., Barnes, A., Rees, R.M., Topp, C.F.E., Pajot, G., Matthews, R., Smith, P., Moxey, A. (2010). Developing carbon budgets for UK agriculture, land-use, land-use change and forestry out to 2022 . Climatic Change DOI 10.1007/s10584-010-9898-2
Sherrington, C, & D. Moran (2010) Modelling farmer uptake of perennial energy crops in the UK, Energy Policy Volume 38, Issue 7, July, Pages 3567-3578
Pratt , K. and D. Moran (2010) Evaluating the Cost-Effectiveness of Global Biochar Mitigation Potential, Biomass & Bioenergy Volume 34, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 1149-1158
MacLeod, M., Moran, D., Eory, V., Rees, R.M., Barnes A.P.,Topp, C.F.E., Ball, B., Hoad, S., Wall, E., McVittie, A., Pajot, G., Matthews, R., Moxey, A., Williams, A., Smith, P. (2010). Developing greenhouse gas marginal abatement cost curves for agricultural emissions from crops and soils in the UK. Agricultural Systems Vol. 103, Issue 4, May 2010 Pgs 198–209
Wimolpat Bumbudsanpharoke, D. Moran, C. Hall (2010) Exploring Perspectives on Environmental Best Management Practices in Thai Agriculture: An Application of Q-Methodology, Environmental Conservation 36(3) pp 225-234
Butterworth, Michael; Semenov, Mikhail; Barnes, Andrew Moran, Dominic West, Jon Fitt, Bruce (2009) North-south divide; contrasting impacts of climate change on crop yields in Scotland and England Journal of the Royal Society Interface vol 7 7-42 123-130
McVittie, A. and D. Moran (2009) Valuing the non-use benefits of marine conservation zones: an application to the UK Marine Bill Ecological Economics 70 (2) Pages 413-424
Sherrington, C., Bartley, J. and Moran, D., (2008). Farm-level constraints on the domestic supply of perennial energy crops in the UK. Energy Policy 36, 2504-2512
Moran, D and S. Dann (2007) The Economic value of water use: implications for implementing the Water Framework Directive in Scotland, Journal of Environmental Management 87: 3 pp 484-496
Dominic Moran, Michael MacLeod, Alistair McVittie, Manuel Lago and David Oglethorpe,(2007) Dynamics of Water Use in Scotland. Water and Environment Journal 21, 241-251
Mouratiadou, I. and D Moran (2007) Mapping Public Participation in the Water Framework Directive: a case study of the Pinios River Basin, Greece. Ecological Economics, 62:66-76
Moran D. and C. Sherrington (2007) An economic assessment, including externalities, of wind farm power generation in Scotland, Energy Policy 35:2811-2825
Moran, D., Alistair McVittie, David Allcroft, and David Elston (2007) Quantifying Public preferences for agri-environmental policy in Scotland: A comparison of methods. Ecological Economics 63:42-53