Research papers and ongoing projects

See separate link for other publications (consultancy reports, older working papers, theses etc.)

Peer-reviewed journal papers:

1. Ibenholt, K. and H. Lindhjem (2003) "Cost and benefits of recycling liquid board containers", Journal of Consumer Policy 26(3): 301-325.

2. Lindhjem, H, T. Hu, Z. Ma, J. M. Skjelvik, G. Song, H. Vennemo, J. Wu and S. Zhang (2006) "Environmental Economic Impact Assessment in China: Problems and Prospects". ECON Working Paper May 2006. Presented at the annual conference of the International Association of Impact Assessment (IAIA) in Stavanger, Norway, 23.-26. May 2006. Published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review 27(1): 1-25, 2007.

3. Lindhjem, H. (2006) "20 years of stated preference valuation of non-timber benefits from Fennoscandian forests: A meta-analysis". Working Paper presented at the 13th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, 19.-21. June 2006, Sweden. Also invited presentations at the 1st Workshop of forest valuation experiences in Europe, Cost Action E45: European Forest Externalities (EUROFOREX), Catania, Italy 18-19. November 2006, and at the Aarhus Colloquium for Meta-Analysis in Economics, Sønderborg, Denmark, September 27-30. 2007. Published in Journal of Forest Economics 12(4): 251-277, 2007.

4. Lindhjem, H. and S. Navrud (2007) "How Reliable are Meta-Analyses for International Benefit Transfers?" Working paper presented at Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, 30. March 2007, and at the annual conferences of European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, Thessaloniki 30. June 2007 & US Society for Ecological Economics, New York, 26. June 2007. Also presented by Ståle Navrud at the Department of Economics and International Development, University of Bath 28. July 2008, and at Cost Action E45: European Forest Externalities (EUROFOREX) meeting in Cork, Ireland 22.-24. September 2008. Published in Ecological Economics 66(2-3): 425-435, 2008.

5. Bartczak, A., H. Lindhjem, S. Navrud, M. Zandersen and T. Zylicz (2007) "Valuing forest recreation on the national level in a transition economy: The case of Poland". Working paper presented by Anna Bartczak at the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden, 25 - 28 June 2008. Published in Forest Policy and Economics 10(7-8): 467-472, 2008.

6. Lindhjem, H. and S. Navrud (2008) "Asking for Individual or Household Willingness to Pay for Environmental Goods? Implication for aggregate welfare measures". Early version presented at the Environmental and Resource Economics Early-Career Researcher Workshop, 12-13 November 2007, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. Also presented at the 16th Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Gothenburg, Sweden, 25 - 28 June 2008. Published in Environmental and Resource Economics 43(1): 11-29, 2009. Special Issue: Household and environmental economics. Guest edited by Alistair Munro.

7. Vennemo, H., K. Aunan, H. Lindhjem and H. M Seip (2008) "Environmental pollution in China: Status and trends". Published in the Review of Environmental Economics and Policy 3(1): 1-22, Summer, 2009. Symposium: China’s Environment. Edited by Dale Jorgenson.

Other research publications:

Romstad, E., M. Boman and H. Lindhjem (2009) “Low cost approaches for managing biological diversity in Nordic forests: The applicability of procurement auctions” Report to the expert group on environmental studies, Swedish Ministry of Finance. Final version forthcoming.

Zandersen, M., K. G. Bråten and H. Lindhjem (2009) "Payment for and Management of Ecosystem Services: Issues and Options in the Nordic Context". Nordic Council of Ministers. TemaNord 2009:571.

Lindhjem, H., J. M. Skjelvik, A. Eriksson, T. Fitch and L-L. P Hansen (2009) "The Use of Economic Instruments in Nordic Environmental Policy 2006-2009". Nordic Council of Ministers. TemaNord 2009:578.

Econ Poyry & Warsaw Ecological Economics Centre (eds) (2009) Proceedings from the international seminar: "Countries and forests in transition: Research seminar on the benefits of multi-functional forest policy" (10 meg), University of Warsaw, Poland, 20-21. February 2009. Financed by the Polish-Norwegian Research Fund. Co-organisers of conference: Anna Bartczak (WEEC) & Henrik Lindhjem (Econ Poyry)

Lindhjem, H. (2008) "Methodological issues in meta-analysis, benefit transfer and environmental valuation", Ph.D. Thesis. 2008:18. Department of Economics and Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

Bartczak, A, H. Lindhjem and A. Stenger (2008) "Review of benefit transfer studies in the forest context". Published in Bergseng, E., G. Delbeck and H. F. Hoen (eds) (2009) Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, Lom, Norway, 6^th – 9^th April, 2008: pp 276-305. 

Hansen, S., H. Lindhjem and H. Vennemo (2004) "On payments to poor stakeholders for sustainable use of protected areas". Book chapter in Xie, Yan (ed.) China's Protected Areas, Tsinghua University Press (Chinese and English versions).

Kjørven, O. and H. Lindhjem (2002) "Strategic Environmental Assessment in World Bank Operations: Experience to date and Future potential", Environmental Strategy Papers. Strategy Series Number 4, The World Bank Environment Department. Also available from these links at the World Bank (1) and (2) (scanned version). Key document in the World Bank efforts to use Strategic Environmental Assessment in its operations. 

Working papers, draft reports and other ongoing work:

Lindhjem, H. G. Bråten , A. Gleinsvik and I. Aronsen (2009) "Experiences with benefit sharing: Issues and options for REDD-plus". Draft report for International Union for Conservation of Nature for discussion at COP 15, Copenhagen December, 2009.

Tuan, T. H and H. Lindhjem (2008-2010) "Meta-analysis of nature conservation values in Asia & Oceania: Data heterogeneity and benefit transfer issues". First draft 10. March 2008. Revised February 2009. Under revision and journal resubmission. Presented by Tuan at EAERE June 2009, Amsterdam. In the process of revision and journal submission

Lindhjem, H. and S. Navrud (2008-2010) "Internet CV surveys - a cheap, fast way to get large samples of biased values?" First draft April 28 2008. Target journal: Land Economics. Accepted for presentation at EAERE June 2009, Amsterdam. In the process of revision and journal submission.

Braathen, N. A., H. Lindhjem and S. Navrud (2008-2010) "Valuing lives saved through environmental, transport and health policies: A Meta-analysis of stated preference studies". OECD Report.ENV/EPOC/WPNEP(2008)10. Working paper version to be presented at the conference "Managing the Social Impacts of Change from a Risk Perspective", 15.-17. April 2009 in Beijing, China. Presented by Braathen at EAERE June 2009, Amsterdam. Revised 1. April 2009. In the process of revision and journal submission.

Lindhjem, H., N-A. Braathen, S. Navrud and V. Biausque (2010) "Policy implications of meta-analysis of value of statistical life estimates" (Working title). OECD project.

Lindhjem, H. and E. Romstad (2009-2010) "Eliciting forest owner compensation levels for biodiversity protection: A comparison of two mechanisms". Abstract submitted to WFC 2009 – World Forestry Congress, Argentina 18-25 October 2009. Presented at the conference "Countries and forests in transition: Research seminar on the benefits of multi-functional forest policy". 20-21. February 2009, at the Faculty of Economic Sciences, Warsaw University. Presentation published in Conference Proceedings (10 meg). Drafting of full paper in progress.

Aunan, K., M. Cropper, G. Xiaomin,  S. A. Hoffman, A. Krupnick, H. Lindhjem, B. Larsen, J. Nygård, H-M Seip, T. S. Rabie, H. Vennemo, Y. Fang,  and Z. Guomei, (2007) "The Cost of Air and Water Pollution in China". Target journal: Environmental Policy paper in Environmental Science & Technology. Draft August/September 2007. (Submission pending official release of data).

Working papers under development:

Lindhjem, H. and Tuan, T. H. (2009) "Willingness to pay for nature conservation in Asia and Oceania: A meta-analysis". Target journal: Environmental Conservation, Biological Conservation, Biodiversity and Conservation or Environmental Management.

Lindhjem, H. (2009) "Cheap talk does not work in contingent valuation web surveys" (Working Title). Research note under development.

Lindhjem, H. (2009) "Scope sensitivity for complex environmental goods". (Working Title). Under development

Lindhjem, H. and S. Navrud (2009) "Costs and benefits of protecting biodiversity in old-growth forests in Norway". Under development

Lindhjem, H. (2007) "Contracts for Coral Reef Conservation". Draft February 2007.

Popular articles:

Lindhjem, H. (2010) "Sharing monetary benefits from forests - conflict or cooperation?" Aborvitae (the journal of International Union for the Conservation of Nature), April, 2010.

Vennemo, H. K. Aunan, H. Lindhjem and H. M Seip (2007) "Tusener dør av forurensing i Kina". Kronikk. Dagbladet 1. mars 2007.

Old working papers:

Bowitz, E. and H. Lindhjem (2001) Environmental costs, systematic risk and energy investment priorities, ECON Working Paper. Norwegian Research Council. RAMBU. Research Project.

Lindhjem, H. (2005) Review of environmental unit prices for air and water pollution -- with applications to China, ECON Working Paper. Manuscript December 2004

Research projects & proposals: 

"PIMAVE - Policy implications of meta-analysis of value of statistical life estimates". OECD project with Stale Navrud, Nils Axel Braathen and V. Biausque

"Scaling up Voices for influencing post 2012 climate change regime: Shaping pro-poor REDD options", Proposal with the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (Consuelo Espinosa, Stewart Maginnis) and The Forest Dialogue (Gary Dunning, Yale University). May 2009-May 2011. Awarded grant for 2009 by NORAD.

"Payment and management of ecosystem services", Nordic Council of Ministers, January 2009-October 2009, Ongoing project with Joshua Bishop (Chief economist, IUCN) and Nick Hanley (Professor, University of Sterling).

"Economic instruments in environmental policy in the Nordic countries 2006-2009”, Nordic Council of Ministers October 2008 – October 2009, Ongoing project with Professor Jon Strand (University of Oslo and the World Bank), Anni H. Huhtala (Professor of Environmental Economics, MTT Economic Research, Finland) and Nils Axel Braathen (OECD).

"Controlling benthic release of phosphorus in different Baltic Sea scales", 3 year research project with several Nordic institutions. Contributions through valuation of water quality improvements through benefit transfer and a hedonic pricing study. Swedish Environmental Protection Agency. 2009-2011.

"Managing biological diversity in Nordic forests", The Swedish Expert Group on environmental studies. With Eirik Romstad and Mattias Boman. August 2008 – April 2008. 

"Meta-analysis of estimates of the value of a statistical life", OECD (Nils Axel Braathen). With Ståle Navrud. April 2008 - August 2009.

"Valuation of environment-related health impacts for children (VERHI) ", OECD (Nick Johnstone). With Ståle Navrud, Anna Alberini, Ian Bateman, Milan Scasny et al. December 2008 – June 2009.

"Research seminar on the benefits of efficient multi-functional forest policy", Co-organised with Anna Bartczak, Mikolaj Czajkowski, and Thomasz Zylicz. Program. Funded by the Polish-Norwegian research fund. Proceedings published (see above).

"Forests as a Public Good: Valuing Social and Environmental Benefits of Forests in Poland to Improve Effectiveness of Management", with Warsaw University (Anna Bartczak, Mikolaj Czajkowski, Thomasz Zylicz and others), Econ Pöyry (Haakon Vennemo, Marianne Zandersen et. al), Norwegian University of Life Sciences (Ståle Navrud) and others. Accepted for funding by the EEA Financial Mechanism supporting project cooperation between Poland and Norway. July 2008 - April 2011. Project website.

"Ecosystem functions in forests". Research project combining natural and social sciences as a basis for better management of biodiversity. Conducting national survey of forest owners’ attitudes and willingness to accept compensation for participating in auctions to provide forests for biodiversity conservation. With Norwegian University of Life Sciences. Funded by Norwegian Research Council and Småforsk

"Non-timber forest goods and local economic development: An untapped potential?" Norwegian Research Council project, 2006-2008. With ECON and others

"Capacity building for reducing mercury pollution in China: Case study in Guizhou province" NORAD/MFA funded project, 2006-2009, With ECON, NIVA and others

"Willingness to Pay for biodiversity in Asia: benefit transfer and meta-analysis". With Tuan H. Tran. Grant by Environment and Economy Programme for Southeast Asia (EEPSEA).

"Governance analysis of biodiversity regulation in China: Toward more effective management". Proposal to the EU-China Biodiversity Programme: Accepted. With ECON, University of Cambridge and others.

Revised: 29. June 2009