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  1. Environmental health risks, welfare and GDP

    Article • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, September 2025, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  2. Greening agriculture for rural development

    Article • World Development, July 2025, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  3. Economics of Nature-Based Solutions for Mitigating Climate Change

    Article • Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, June 2025, University of Chicago Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  4. Why the green-technology race might not save the planet

    Article • Nature, May 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  5. Land Redistribution and Agricultural Frontier Expansion

    Article • Eastern Economic Journal, March 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  6. Poverty–disease–environment traps: Locally tailored solutions and collective action

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2025, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  7. Natural capital and aggregate income growth

    Article • Environment and Development Economics, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  8. Famine at birth: long-term health effects of the 1974–75 Bangladesh famine

    Article • Environment and Development Economics, December 2024, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  9. Economics of Water Scarcity and Efficiency

    Article • Sustainability, October 2024, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  10. Economics of Water Scarcity and Efficiency

    Article • August 2024, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  11. Water and Economic Growth in Developed and Developing Countries

    Article • Water Economics and Policy, May 2024, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  12. Investment, Green Transformation and Growth

    Article • Theoretical Economics Letters, January 2024, Scientific Research Publishing, Inc,

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  13. Greening the G7 economies

    Article • Oxford Review of Economic Policy, November 2023, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  14. The evolving landscape of sea-level rise science from 1990 to 2021

    Article • Communications Earth & Environment, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  15. Three climate policies that the G7 must adopt — for itself and the wider world

    Article • Nature, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  16. Reform economics for managing global water supply

    Article • Nature, May 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  17. Greening the ocean economy

    Article • Frontiers in Environmental Economics, April 2023, Frontiers

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  18. Spreading Environmental Economics Worldwide

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, February 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  19. Natural Capital, Institutional Quality and SDG Progress in Emerging Market and Developing Economies

    Article • Sustainability, February 2023, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  20. Overcoming digital poverty traps in rural Asia

    Article • Review of Development Economics, December 2022, Wiley

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  21. The economics of managing water crises

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, October 2022, Royal Society Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  22. Tackling the mangrove restoration challenge

    Article • PLoS Biology, October 2022, PLOS

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  23. The policy challenges of green rural transformation for Asia-Pacific emerging and developing economies in a post-COVID world

    Article • Economic Analysis and Policy, September 2022, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  24. Adaptation to Natural Disasters through the Agricultural Land Rental Market: Evidence from Bangladesh

    Article • Land Economics, June 2022, University of Wisconsin Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  25. The Policy Implications of the Dasgupta Review: Land Use Change and Biodiversity

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, April 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  26. Long-term impacts of the 1970 cyclone in Bangladesh

    Article • World Development, April 2022, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  27. Economics for a Fragile Planet

    Article • March 2022, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  28. Institutional Quality, Governance and Progress towards the SDGs

    Article • Sustainability, October 2021, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  29. Mangroves and coastal topography create economic “safe havens” from tropical storms

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier, Stuart E. Hamilton

  30. Habitat loss and the risk of disease outbreak

    Article • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, July 2021, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  31. Valuing the Environment as Input, Ecosystem Services and Developing Countries

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  32. 2. Sustainability, the Systems Approach and the Sustainable Development Goals

    Article • Cahiers d économie politique, May 2021, CAIRN

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  33. National and Sub-National Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19

    Article • Economies, May 2021, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  34. Author Correction: Rebuilding marine life

    Article • Nature, April 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  35. COVID-era policies and economic recovery plans: are governments building back better for protected and conserved areas?

    Article • PARKS, March 2021, IUCN

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  36. Sustainable Use of the Environment, Planetary Boundaries and Market Power

    Article • Sustainability, January 2021, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  37. The SDGs and the Systems Approach to Sustainability

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  38. Rural Populations, Land Degradation, and Living Standards in Developing Countries

    Article • Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, January 2021, University of Chicago Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  39. The Evolution of Economic Views on Natural Resource Scarcity

    Article • Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, January 2021, University of Chicago Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  40. Economics of the SDGs

    Article • January 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  41. Land expansion and growth in low‐ and middle‐income countries*

    Article • Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, December 2020, Wiley

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  42. Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems as Defense Against Flood Damages: An Economic Perspective

    Article • Frontiers in Climate, December 2020, Frontiers

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  43. Public Perceptions of Mangrove Forests Matter for Their Conservation

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, November 2020, Frontiers

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  44. Sustainability and development after COVID-19

    Article • World Development, November 2020, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  45. Are Sub-National Agreements for Carbon Abatement Effective?

    Article • Energies, July 2020, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  46. Is green rural transformation possible in developing countries?

    Article • World Development, July 2020, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  47. Greening the Post-pandemic Recovery in the G20

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, June 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  48. Rebuilding marine life

    Article • Nature, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Jean-Pierre Gattuso, University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  49. Adopt a carbon tax to protect tropical forests

    Article • Nature, February 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  50. National and Sub-National Social Distancing Responses to COVID-19

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2020, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  51. Sustainable development goal indicators: Analyzing trade-offs and complementarities

    Article • World Development, October 2019, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  52. Frontier Expansion and Economic Development

    Article • September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  53. Natural Resource-Based Economic Development in History

    Article • September 2019, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  54. Poverty-Environment Traps

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, August 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  55. Scarcity and Safe Operating Spaces: The Example of Natural Forests

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, July 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  56. Mangroves shelter coastal economic activity from cyclones

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, June 2019, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Stuart E. Hamilton, University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  57. Overcoming environmental scarcity, inequality and structural imbalance in the world economy

    Article • Review of Social Economy, May 2019, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  58. Valuing Coastal Habitat–Fishery Linkages under Regulated Open Access

    Article • Water, April 2019, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  59. Long run agricultural land expansion, booms and busts

    Article • Land Use Policy, March 2019, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  60. Managing a Global Resource

    Article • February 2019, Yale University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  61. The Water Paradox

    Article • February 2019, Yale University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  62. A Global Crisis in Water Management

    Article • February 2019, Yale University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  63. Introduction

    Article • February 2019, Yale University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  64. Humankind and Water

    Article • February 2019, Yale University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  65. Institutional Constraints and the Forest Transition in Tropical Developing Countries

    Article • International Advances in Economic Research, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  66. The value of small mangrove patches

    Article • Science, January 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  67. Policy design for the Anthropocene

    Article • Nature Sustainability, January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  68. Land degradation and poverty

    Article • Nature Sustainability, November 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  69. Corporate Climate Risk Reduction

    Article • Sustainability, December 2017, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  70. Natural Resource Economics, Planetary Boundaries and Strong Sustainability

    Article • Sustainability, October 2017, MDPI AG

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  71. The Sustainable Development Goals and the systems approach to sustainability

    Article • Economics, October 2017, De Gruyter

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  72. Righting the balance

    Article • Our Planet, June 2017, United Nations Publications

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  73. A new measure of regional market accessibility and inequality

    Article • World Development, May 2017, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  74. Valuing the value of prairie grasslands in terms of storing carbon

    Article • Science Advances, April 2017, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  75. User cost of depleting the global carbon budget

    Article • Environment and Development Economics, March 2017, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  76. Storm damages: natural barriers vs public programs

    Article • Environment and Development Economics, August 2016, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier, Dr. Sakib Mahmud

  77. Green growth and developing economies

    Article • Resource and Energy Economics, August 2016, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  78. The protective service of mangrove ecosystems: A review of valuation methods

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, August 2016, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  79. Climate change, rural LECZ and poverty

    Article • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, November 2015, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  80. The Protective Value of Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystem Services in a Wealth Accounting Framework

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, July 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  81. Scarcity, frontiers and the resource curse

    Article • May 2015, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  82. How To Overcome Environmental Scarcity and Inequality

    Article • January 2015, Nature

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  83. Introduction

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  84. Conclusion

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  85. Wealth Inequality

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  86. Structural Imbalance

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  87. Making the Transition

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  88. Long-Run Impacts of the 1970-74 Series of Disasters in Bangladesh

    Article • SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2014, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  89. Sustainable Development

    Article • November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  90. After the Green Revolution

    Article • November 2013, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  91. Blueprint 1

    Article • October 2013, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  92. Economics, Natural-Resource Scarcity and Development (Routledge Revivals)

    Article • June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  93. A New Blueprint for a Green Economy

    Article • June 2013, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  94. Economics of the Regulating Services

    Article • January 2013, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  95. How Natural Resource Frontiers Impact Economic Development

    Article • Geographical Journal, February 2012, Wiley

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  96. Progress and Challenges in Valuing Coastal and Marine Ecosystem Services

    Article • Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, January 2012, University of Chicago Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  97. Estuarine and Coastal Ecosystems and Their Services

    Article • January 2011, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  98. Scarcity and Frontiers: How Economies Have Developed Through Natural Resource Exploitation

    Article • January 2010, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  99. Askö in Washington 1999: Commentary by Edward B. Barbier

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  100. Frontiers and sustainable economic development

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, May 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  101. Corruption, trade and resource conversion

    Article • Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, September 2005, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  102. How natural resources are used by poor countries for economic development

    Article • January 2005, Cambridge University Press

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  103. Explaining Agricultural Land Expansion and Deforestation in Developing Countries

    Article • American Journal of Agricultural Economics, December 2004, Wiley

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  104. Structural Adjustment Programme, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana

    Article • Environmental and Resource Economics, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  105. Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America: Implications for Long-run Economic Development

    Article • World Development, January 2004, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  106. Environmental project evaluation in developing countries: valuing the environment as input

    Article • December 2003, Edward Elgar Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  107. Deforestation, land degradation and rural poverty in Latin America: examining the evidence

    Article • September 2001, Edward Elgar Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  108. Valuing the environment as input: review of applications to mangrove-fishery linkages

    Article • Ecological Economics, October 2000, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  109. Blueprint for a Sustainable Economy

    Article • February 2000, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  110. Introduction

    Article • February 2000, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  111. Conclusions

    Article • February 2000, Taylor & Francis

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  112. Development, Poverty and Environment

    Article • August 1999, Edward Elgar Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  113. Index

    Article • April 1998, Edward Elgar Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  114. Valuing environmental functions: tropical wetlands

    Article • April 1998, Edward Elgar Publishing

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  115. Postscript

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  116. Economics and Ecology

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  117. Valuing environmental functions in developing countries

    Article • Biodiversity and Conservation, March 1992, Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  118. Cash crops, food crops, and sustainability: The case of Indonesia

    Article • World Development, June 1989, Elsevier

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier

  119. Environmental Sustainability and Poverty Eradication in Developing Countries

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    University Distinguished Professor Edward Barbier