Profile

Biography

Murray joined the Environment Department in 2010. Previously he held a Canada Research Chair in Ecological Economics at Memorial University of Newfoundland and had worked as a senior economist for the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans. His PhD research focused on institutional analysis of MPAs and fisheries policy experiments in the Turks and Caicos. His current research focuses on the economic valuation of the environment, with a special emphasis on wetlands, coasts, and biodiversity issues. He is on the editorial board of Conservation Biology.

Weblinks

• Academia.edu: http://york.academia.edu/MurrayRudd
• Personal (photographs): http://www.rudd.smugmug.com
  

Career

2011	Senior Lecturer	University of York
2010	Lecturer	University of York
2006	PhD	Wageningen
1997	MSc	UBC
1993	BSc (Agr)	UBC

Research

Overview

Murray's research involves assessing the economic costs and benefits of human activities and government policies that affect natural capital and the provision of ecosystem services that impact human well-being. It explores issues of when, where, and how to invest scarce societal resources to achieve ecological and socio-economic sustainability. From a disciplinary perspective, Murray works at the intersection of environmental economics, political science (institutions and institutional analysis), public policy, and conservation biology. From a methodological perspective, he has particular interests in discrete choice modelling, latent class analysis, and issues of internet-based survey design and analysis. He is also increasingly focusing on robust decision making (RDM) approaches to quantitative policy analysis, its linkages to pragmatist philosophy and institutional economics, and the potential for participatory modeling of policy choices in the face of fundamental ecological and social uncertainty.

Current projects

By-catch and incidental mortality during Pacific salmon freshwater migration phases in the Fraser River. Strategic Project Grants Supplemental Competition (SPG-SC) in Aquaculture and Capture Fisheries. Co-applicant for project (2009-2012) led by Steve Cooke, Carleton University, Canada.

Determining [USA] priorities for conservation science and policy in the face of climate change. Co-applicant for Kresge Foundation grant (2009-2012) led by Erica Fleishman, University of California - Davis.

How has postgraduate student training conducted by the Environment Department affected environmental science and policy in the UK and internationally? Internal research award (2011-12), Environment Department, University of York.

Supervision

Wiegand J. Graduated 2010. The ecosystem approach to environmental management. Co-supervisor (2007-10, with Dave Raffaelli, Jim Smart, Piran White).

Hejnowicz A. (in progress). Integrative methods for evaluating the delivery of ecosystem services at the landscape level. Co-supervisor (with Dave Raffaelli, Piran White).

Lawton R. (in progress). How could social science research contribute to effective environmental decision-making and policy implementation in the UK?

Wang X. (in progress). Economics of pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the aquatic environment.

Publications

Full publications list

In Review

• Boxall, ABA., Rudd MA, Brooks BW, Caldwell DJ, Choi K, Hickmann S, Innes E, Ostapyk K, Staveley JP, Verslycke T, Ankley GT, Beazley KF, Belanger SE, Berninger JP, Garriquiriborde P, Coors A, DeLeo PC, Dyer SD, Ericson JF, Gagné F, Giesy JP, Hallstrom L, Karlsson M, Larsson DGJ, Lazorchak JM, Mastrocco F, McLaughlin A, McMaster ME, Meyerhoff RD, Moore R, Parrott JL, Snape JR, Murray-Smith R, Servos MR, Sibley PK, Straub JO, Szabo ND, Topp E, Tetreault GR, Trudeau VL and van der Kraak G. Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in the environment: what are the big questions? Environmental Health Perspectives (revised manuscript in review).
• Rudd MA, Kilfoil MA and Andres S. A comparison of species-, guild-, and ecosystem-oriented approaches to quantify the passive use value of low profile species at risk. Ecosystem Services.
• Rudd MA and Lawton RN. Scientists’ prioritization of global coastal research questions. Conservation Letters.

Journal Articles

• Nguyen VM, Rudd MA, Hinch SG, and Cooke SJ. In press. Differences in information use and preferences among recreational salmon anglers: implications for management initiatives to promote responsible fishing. Human Dimension of Wildlife.
• Raheem N, Colt S, Fleishman E, Talberth J, Swedeen P, Boyle KJ, Rudd MA, Lopez RD, Crocker D, Bohan D, O'Higgins T, Willer C, and Boumans RM. In press. Application of non-market valuation to California coastal policy decisions. Marine Policy (www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308597X12000061).
• Fleishman E, Blockstein D, Hall JA, Mascia MB, Rudd MA, Scott JM, Sutherland WJ, Baldwin, T., Bartuska AM, Brown AG, Christen CA, Clement J, Collins MG, Duke CD, Eaton M, Eichbaum B, Fiske SJ, Klein ML, Marqusee J, Noon BR, Nordgren J, Orbuch P, Powell J, Saterson KA, Savitt C, Stein B, Webster MS, Vedder A (2011). America’s Top 40 priorities for policy-relevant conservation science. BioScience 61: 291-300.
• Rudd MA (2011). An exploratory analysis of societal preferences for quality of life attributes and research impacts in Canada. Social Indicators Research 101: 127-153.
• Rudd, MA (2011). Scientists’ opinions on the global status and management of biological diversity. Conservation Biology 25: 1165-1175.
• Rudd MA (2011). How research-prioritization exercises affect conservation policy. Conservation Biology 25: 860-866. 
• Rudd MA, Beazley KF, Cooke SJ, Fleishman E, Lane DE, Mascia MB, Roth R, Tabor G, Bakker JA, Bellefontaine T, Berteaux D, Cantin B, Chaulk KF, Cunningham K, Dobell R, Fast E, Ferrara N, Findlay CS, Hallstrom LK, Hammond T, Hermantuz L, Hutchings JA, Lindsay KE, Marta TJ, Nguyen VM, Northey G, Prior K, Ramirez-Sanchez S, Rice J, Sleep DJH, Szabo ND, Trottier G, Toussaint JP, Veilleux JP (2011). Generation of priority research questions to inform conservation policy and management at a national level. Conservation Biology 25: 476-484.
• Rudd MA, Pelletier N, Tyedmers P (2011). Preferences for health and environmental attributes of farmed salmon amongst southern Ontario salmon consumers. Aquaculture Economics and Management 15:1-28.
• Sutherland WJ, Fleishman E, Mascia MB, Pretty J, Rudd MA (2011). Methods for collaborative identification of policy-relevant research priorities, policy options, and emerging issues. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 2: 238–247.
• Cooke SJ, Danylchuk AJ, Kaiser M, Rudd MA. (2010). Is there a need for a 100 questions exercise to enhance fisheries and aquatic conservation, policy, management, and research? Journal of Fish Biology 76: 2261-2286.
• Mooers AO, Doak DF, Green DM, Grouios C, Manne LL, Rashvand A, Rudd MA, Whitton J. (2010). Science, policy, and species at risk in Canada. BioScience 60(10): 843-849.
• Wiber MG, Rudd MA, Pinkerton E, Charles AT, and Bull A (2010). Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) implementation challenges from a community perspective: ‘stealth privatization’ of a Canadian clam fishery. Marine Policy 34: 598–605.
• Rudd MA (2009). National values for regional aquatic species at risk in Canada. Endangered Species Research 6: 239-249.
• Rudd MA (2009). Nonmarket economic valuation and 'The Economist’s Fallacy'. Journal of Multidisciplinary Evaluation 5(11): 93-96.
• Rudd MA (2004). An institutional framework for designing and monitoring ecosystem-based fisheries management policy experiments. Ecological Economics 48: 109-124.
• Rudd MA, Tupper MH, Folmer H and van Kooten GC (2003). Policy analysis for tropical marine reserves: directions and challenges. Fish and Fisheries 4: 65-85.
• Rudd MA and Tupper MH (2002). The impact of Nassau grouper size and abundance on scuba diver site selection and MPA economics. Coastal Management 30: 133-151.
• Tupper MH and Rudd MA (2002). Species-specific impacts of a small marine reserve on reef fish production and fishing productivity in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Environmental Conservation 29: 484-492.
• Rudd MA (2001). The non-consumptive economic value of spiny lobster, Panulirus argus, in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Environmental Conservation 28: 226-234.
• Rudd MA (2000). Live long and prosper: collective action, social capital and social vision. Ecological Economics 34: 131-144.

Selected reports/other publications 

• Comment and Analysis: “We need to think in triage terms: we do not have the money to save everything.” Page 22-23 in BBC Knowledge Magazine, March 2012.
• “Should we allow some species to go extinct?” Page 25 in BBC Focus Magazine, February 2012.
• Rudd MA (2010). A logic model for assessing the sustainability of Canadian oceans policy and management. Pages 9-36 in: Ocean Yearbook 24 (A Chircop, S Coffen-Smout, M McConnell, editors). Brill/Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.
• Rudd MA (2008). The economics of the Lower Churchill hydroelectric project. Waterkeeper Magazine, Spring 2008: 46.
• Rudd MA (2007). Ecological change - what's it worth? Newfoundland Quarterly 100(1): 44-46.
• Rudd MA (2003). Fisheries production and trade of the Turks and Caicos Islands. In From Mexico to Brazil: Central Atlantic fisheries catch trends and ecosystem models (D. Zeller, S. Booth, E. Mohammed and D. Pauly, editors). Fisheries Centre Research Reports Vol. 11(6): 149-162. Vancouver: UBC Fisheries Centre.
• Rudd MA, Danylchuk AJ, Gore SA and Tupper MH (2001). Are marine protected areas in the Turks and Caicos Islands ecologically or economically valuable? In: Economics of Marine Protected Areas (UR Sumaila and J Alder, editors). Fisheries Centre Research Report 9(8): 198-211. Vancouver: UBC Fisheries Centre.
• Rudd MA, Folmer H and van Kooten GC (2002). Economic evaluation of recreational fishery policies. In Evaluating Recreational Fisheries: an Ecological, Economic and Social Balance Sheet (TJ Pitcher and C Hollingworth, editors), pp. 35-52. Oxford: Blackwell Science.

Selected conference presentations

• Rudd MA. Mapping public values to support adaptation to climate change. Invited keynote address, Salmon in a Changing Climate, Portland, Oregon, Nov 11.
• Rudd MA. International coastal scientists’ prioritization of research needs for coastal management and conservation (2011). Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Open Science Conference, Yantai, China, Sep 11.
• Rudd MA and Wiegand J. Citizens’ willingness to pay for improved ecosystem services arising from wastewater cleanup in Newfoundland, Canada (2011). Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Open Science Conference, Yantai, China, Sep 11.
• Rudd MA. Generation of the “Top 40” priority research questions to inform policy and management of biological diversity in Canada. Canadian Science Policy Conference, Montreal, Oct 10.
• Rudd MA, Beazley K, Cooke SJ, Fleishman E, Lane DE, Mascia MB, Roth R, Tabor GM (2010). Canada’s ‘Top 40’ conservation research priorities. Society for Conservation Biology Conference, Edmonton AB, Jul 2010.
• Raheem N, Rudd MA (2010). Using ecosystem service values to reduce spatial cost disparities in the interface: the Lower Churchill Hydro Project in Labrador. Emerging Issues along Urban-Rural Interfaces 3: Linking Science and Society, Atlanta, April 2010.
• Rudd MA. Protecting ecosystems and biodiversity: a national priority for Canadians. Diversitas Open Science Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, Oct 09.
• Rudd MA. National values for regional marine species at risk in Canada. Invited symposium presentation, North American Association of Fisheries Economists, Providence, Rhode Island, May 09.
• Rudd MA. A post mortem on the Government of Canada’s decision not to list porbeagle shark as an endangered species under SARA. Society for Conservation Biology Conference, Chattanooga TN, Jul 08.
• Angus R, Brown N, Charles A, Kearney J, Landry M, Pictou S, Recchia M, Rudd MA, White C, Whitman B and Wiber M. Coastal CURA: supporting Maritimes communities engaging in coastal management. Ocean Management Research Network Biennial Conference, Ottawa, Oct 07.
• Rudd MA. What is nature worth? Looking at our natural resources through new eyes. The Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, ‘Memorial Presents’ public lecture, Corner Brook, Apr 07.
• Rudd MA and McPherson A. Non-use economic values of Canadian aquatic species at risk: preliminary results from a national internet survey. American Institute of Biological Sciences, Washington, D.C., May 06.
• Rudd MA. Results-based institutional analysis for sustainable fisheries management and governance. American Academy for Advancement of Science, St. Louis, Feb 06.
• Long S, Rudd MA and Tupper MH. Measuring public preferences for coastal and cultural integrity in Palau. International Society for Ecological Economics, Montreal, Jul 04.

External activities

Editorial duties

• Editorial Board, Conservation Biology

Teaching

Undergraduate

• Economics of Environmental Policy (year 2)
• Economic Policy and Valuation (year 3)
• Economics and Governance of Freshwater Resources (year 3)
  

Postgraduate

• Environmental Valuation
• Environmental Economics
• Economics and Governance of Freshwater Resources (from 2012)