J A MES W. BOY D Senior Fellow and Director, Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth 202.328.5013 boyd@rff.org
EXPERTISE Ecosystems: Biodiversity, Ecosystem Management, Ecosystem Services, Green Infrastructure Land Use: Green Infrastructure, Public Lands Policy and Analysis: Environmental Accounting, Green GDP, Incentives, Regulation, Valuation
Jim Boyd’s research lies at the intersection of economics, ecology, and law, with a particular focus on the measurement and management of ecosystem goods and services. Boyd emphasizes the need to better coordinate economic and ecological research to improve the practical performance of green incentives, markets, and investments. He advocates and works on the practical design of a “green GDP”—national environmental accounts to capture and track the status of environmental public goods and services. Boyd is director of RFF's Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth, which was created to work with practitioners, scholars, and policymakers to incorporate ecological science into public policies to protect, enhance, and manage the social wealth arising from natural systems. He is also the director of social science and policy at the National Science Foundation’s SocioEnvironmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC). EDUCATION • PhD in applied microeconomics, the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 1993 • BA in history, University of Michigan, 1986 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Conservation Return on Investment Analysis: A Review of Results, Methods, and New Directions (with R. Epanchin-Niell and J.V. Siikamäki), RFF Discussion Paper 12-01, Jan. 2012. What Are Ecosystem Services? The Need for Standardized Environmental Accounting Units (with S. Banzhaf ), Ecological Economics, 2007.
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