Kerry Turner is a director of CSERGE, the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment, and professor at the University of Each Anglia. David W. Pearce is director of CSERGE and professor at University of College London. They are coauthors of Economics of Natural Resources. Ian Bateman is a member of the Department of Environmental Science at the University of East Anglia and coeditor of Valuing Environmental Preferences.

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