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  • Our Group.

    We are two faculty members, Sumeet Gulati and Frederik Noack, eleven Ph.D. students: Bianca Cecato, Dennis Engist, Elyse Adamic, Erin Litzow, Giulia Vaglietti, Juan Fercovic, Maithili Devadas, Raahil Madhok, Tatiana Zárate, Trevor Church, and Xiao Han; three Master’s students: Dan O’Beirne, Prasun Ghimire, and Sara Savino; and two Postdocs: Joséphine Gantois, and Vasundhara Gaur.  

  • Compensation from wildlife damage.

    We are estimating the level of moral hazard, if any, is induced by state-level compensation for wildlife damage in India.

  • Species level data for effective economic evaluation.

    We are surveying and evaluating species level population estimates, and their proxies for their suitability of use in standard economic analyses.

  • The cost of living in proximity to wildlife.

    We are building an estimate for the cost borne by farmers living near wildlife reserves in India. Besides costs of animal raiding, this estimate also includes the indirect costs from crop and livestock adjustments in response to wildlife conflict.

  • BC’s resident orca pod-level correlates.

    We are putting together a time series dataset for the environmental correlates of resident orca populations, including salmon stock estimates, shipping traffic, and commonly measured pollutants.

Welcome to the Wildlife and Conservation Economics Lab at UBC.

What we do:

We quantify the causal impact of government policies on conservation outcomes. We inform policy using rigorous theoretical and empirical tools, often—but not exclusively—drawn from economics. We consider the opportunity cost of conservation and focusing on the cost-effectiveness of conservation spending to expand its reach and effectiveness. Besides policy, we also analyze threats to biodiversity, quantify costs, and its causal impacts.

The Wildlife and Conservation Economics Lab
Faculty of Land and Food Systems
Vancouver Campus
MacMillan Building
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T 1Z4
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