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Dr Neal Hockley
Research Lecturer in Economics & Policy

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Email: n.hockley@bangor.ac.uk

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Qualifications

BA(Hons)/MA (Cambridge)
MRes (Edinburgh)
PhD (Wales): Cost-Benefit Analysis for Global Environmental Issues

Research Interests

I’m interested in a diverse range of social, economic and environmental topics including:

Policy evaluation, including the use and misuse of cost-benefit analysis and indicators
Institutions and mechanisms of nature conservation (including Payments for Ecosystem Services and Community-Based Natural Resources Management)
Growth, technology and the environment
Justice, equity and rights in relation to natural resources and indigenous peoples
Economic and institutional aspects of natural resource management in Madagascar

Current/Recent Projects

The NEA Shared, Cultural and Plural Values project. The importance of shared social values in economic valuation (funded by Defra/NERC/ESRC/AHRC/Welsh & NI Govts).

CBESS: A hierarchical approach to the examination of the relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem service flows across coastal margins. Part of the NERC-funded Biodiversity and Ecosystem Service Sustainability (BESS) program

BRIDGE: Bridging the gap between supply and demand for valuation evidence. Part of the NERC Valuing Nature Network.

Systematic Review of the Human Well-being Impacts of Terrestrial Protected Areas. Global Environment Facility: Scientific and Technical Advisory Panel.

Research Students

Onjamirindra Sarobidy: What are the true net local costs of forest conservation in least developed countries: empirical evidence from Madagascar.

Adnan Alsoul. Land degradation and desertification in the northeast of Jefara Plain in Libya; Policy, technical and social solutions. (with Rob Brook)

Linda Chinangwa: Community Based Natural Resource Management in Malawi. (with Andrew Pullin)

Arbi Sarkissian: Institutions and natural resource management. Examining payments for ecosystem services and decentralized community-based native tree planting in Lebanon.

(with Amin Kamete and Salma Talhouk of Ibsar/AUB)

Recent Publications

Robinson D.A., N. Hockley, D. Cooper, B.A. Emmett, A.M. Keith, I. Lebron, B. Reynolds, E. Tipping, A.M. Tye, C.W. Watts, W.R. Whalley, H.I.J. Black, G.P. Warren, J.S. Robinson (2013) Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services, Developing an Appropriate Soils Framework as a basis for Valuation. Soil Biology & Biochemistry 57 1023-1033. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.soilbio.2012.09.008

Robinson, D.A., Hockley N., Dominati E., Lebron I., Scow K.M., Reynolds B., Emmett B.A., Keith A.M., de Jonge L.W, Schjønning P., Moldrup P., Jones S.B., and Tuller M. (2012) Natural capital, ecosystem services and soil change: why soil science must embrace an ecosystems approach. Vadose Zone Journal. 11(1): http://dx.doi.org/10.2136/vzj2011.0051

See also coverage and an abridged version of the paper in CSA news: https://www.soils.org/files/publications/csa-news/why-soil-science-must-adapt-an-ecosystems-approach.pdf

Hockley, N. (2011) Fallacy in costs of pollution control. Nature 478(7368) 188. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/478188d

Hockley, N. (2010) Low repopulation of poor districts in New Orleans proves little. Nature. 467(7313) 271. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/467271e

Hockley, N. (2010) No shortcuts to prioritising conservation funding. Biological Conservation 143(4) 825. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2009.12.020

Hockley, N., Gibbons, J.M. and Edwards-Jones, G. (2009) Risks of extreme heat and unpredictability. Science 324: http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.324.5924.177a

Jones, J.P.G., Andriamarovololona, M.M., & Hockley, N. (2008) The importance of taboos and social norms to conservation in Madagascar. Conservation Biology, 22: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2008.00970.x

Jones, J.P.G., Andriamarovololona, M.M., Hockley, N.J., Gibbons, J.M., & Milner-Gulland, E.J. (2008) Testing the use of interviews as a tool for monitoring trends in the harvesting of wild species. Journal of Applied Ecology, 45: 1205-1212. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2664.2008.01487.x

Hockley, N., Jones, J.P., & Gibbons, J.M. (2008) Technological progress must accelerate to reduce global footprint overshoot. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 6(3), 122-123. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2008)6[122:TPMATR]2.0.CO;2

Hockley, N.J. & Andriamarovololona, M.M. (2007). The economics of community forest management in Madagascar: is there a free lunch? USAID, Washington, D.C. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADL290.pdf

Hockley, N.J., Edwards-Jones, G., & Healey, J.R. (2007) Maximizing the efficiency of conservation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 22(6), 286-287. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2007.02.012

Jones, J.P.G., Andriahajaina, F.B., & Hockley, N. (2007) The potential of native species aquaculture to achieve conservation objectives: freshwater crayfish in Madagascar. International Journal of Biodiversity Science & Management, 3(4), 217-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17451590709618175

Jones, J.P.G., Andriahajaina, F.B., Hockley, N.J., Crandall, K.A. and Ravoahangimalala, O.R. -2007 The ecology and conservation status of Madagascar's endemic freshwater crayfish (Parastacidae; Astacoides). Freshwater Biology 52: 1820-1833. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2427.2007.01766.x

Hockley, N.J. & Razafindralambo, R. (2006). A social cost-benefit analysis of conserving the Ranomafana-Andringitra-Pic d'Ivohibe Corridor in Madagascar. USAID, Washington, D. C. http://pdf.usaid.gov/pdf_docs/PNADI193.pdf

Jones, J.P.G., Andriahajaina, F.B., Ranambinintsoa, E.H., Hockley, N.J., & Ravoahangimalala, O. (2006) The economic importance of freshwater crayfish harvesting in Madagascar and the potential of community-based conservation to improve management. Oryx, 40(2), 168-175. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0030605306000500

Hockley, N.J., Jones, J.P.G., Andriahajaina, F.B., Manica, A., Ranambitsoa, E.H., & Randriamboahary, J.A. (2005) When should communities and conservationists monitor exploited resources? Biodiversity and Conservation, 14(11), 2795–2806. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-005-8416-8

Hockley, N. (2005). Debt for Nature Swaps. In Principles of Conservation Biology (eds M.J. Groom, G. Meffe & C.R. Carroll). 3rd Edition Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA. Link

Jones, J.P.G., Andriahajaina, F.B., Hockley, N.J., Balmford, A., & Ravoahangimalala, O.R. (2005) A multidisciplinary approach to assessing the sustainability of freshwater crayfish harvesting in Madagascar. Conservation Biology, 19(6), 1863-1871. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1523-1739.2005.00269.x-i1

Balmford, A., Gravestock, P., Hockley, N., McClean, C.J., & Roberts, C.M. (2004) The worldwide costs of marine protected areas. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 101(26), 9694-9697. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0403239101

Braendle C, Hockley N., Brevig T, Shingleton AW, Keller L. (2003) Size-correlated division of labour and spatial distribution of workers in the driver ant, Dorylus molestus. Naturwissenschaften 90:277–281. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00114-003-0426-3