Alistair Hunt

Personal profile

Research interests

Beginning my working life as an economist in the UK Government Department of Environment, I have specialised in the Economics of the Environment at the University of Bath since 1998. My research is applied and relates directly to the formulation of environmental policy. I primarily work with inter-disciplinary research teams in Europe and around the world, and, for large donor organisations including the EC, OECD, World Bank and UNEP. I recently co-ordinated the EC DG Research project: Economics of climate change adaptation in Europe (ECONADAPT).

Current areas of interest include climate change risks, adaptation and mitigation in local and national contexts, and; non-market valuation, with focus on stated preference methods and value transfer.

Current Research projects:

Wellcome Trust: Moving health and sustainability upstream into strategic urban development decision-making.
Urban Land Institute/New Climate Economics: Supporting Smart Urban Growth: Successful Investing in Density.
OECD: Socio-Economic Analysis of Chemicals: quantification and monetisation of morbidity and environmental impacts.

My research is in Environmental Economics and my two main areas of research interest are Non-Market Valuation and Project/Policy Appraisal in the context of climate adaptation. Specific areas of interest include the following:

Non-Market Valuation:

Monetary valuation of disutility associated with morbidity and premature mortality
Energy and Transport-related externalities, including energy security
Green Accounting methods and applications
Monetary valuation of ecosystems
Economics of Crime

Project/Policy Appraisal:

Cost-Benefit Analysis
Portfolio analysis and Real Options analysis in Climate Change context

I am Research Co-ordinator for the Department of Economics.

Network Recent external collaboration on country level. Dive into details by clicking on the dots.

Projects

4 Active
18 Finished

Environment Agency Plastics valuation

Hunt, A.

The Environment Agency

1/03/20 → 30/06/20

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

Tackling the Root Causes of Unhealthy Planning, Economics and Decision-making: An Urban Systems Approach

Hunt, A. & Fichera, E.

MRC

1/06/19 → 31/05/24

Project: Research council

NextGen - Towards a next generation of water systems and services for the circular economy

Hunt, A.

EU - Horizon 2020

1/07/18 → 30/06/22

Project: EU Commission

Waste Food-Energy-Water Urban Living Labs - Mapping and Reducing Waste in the Food-Energy-Water Nexus

Hunt, A.

Innovate UK

1/06/18 → 31/12/20

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

Evidence Base for Local Industrial Strategy Swindon Wiltshire

Schneider, M., Hunt, A. & Papps, K.

1/07/19 → 31/12/19

Project: Central government, health and local authorities

Research Output

18 Article
13 Chapter
8 Paper
4 Book
5 More

Embedding Preference Uncertainty for Environmental Amenities in Climate Change Economic Assessments: A “Random” Step Forward

Skourtos, M., Damigos, D., Kontogianni, A., Tourkolias, C. & Hunt, A., 31 Dec 2019, In : Economies. 7, 107, p. 1-22 22 p., 107.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access

File

4 Downloads (Pure)

Estimating environmental health costs: Valuation of children’s health impacts

Hunt, A., 5 Sep 2019, Encyclopedia of Environmental Health (2nd ed.). Nriagu, J. O. (ed.). France: Elsevier Masson, p. 734-745 12 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Moving Health Upstream in Urban Development: Reflections on the Operationalization of a Transdisciplinary Case Study

Black, D., Scally, G., Orme, J., Hunt, A., Pilkington, P., Lawrence, R. & Ebi, K., 30 Apr 2019, In : Global Challenges. 3, 1700103, p. 1 12 p., 1700103.

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

Open Access