Dr Catherine Glass

E-mail

Tel

ORCID ID

Catherine.Glass@afbini.gov.uk

+44 (0)2890 255 596

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6928-7498

Research Group

Environmental Economics

Research Interests
  • Non-market valuation
  • Water economics and policy
  • Economics of land use change
  • Behavioural economics
  • Social learning and opinion dynamics

Biography

Catherine Glass is a Senior Agricultural Economist in the Environmental Economics research group. Catherine obtained a BSc. in Economics and PhD in Agricultural Economics from Queen’s University, Belfast.

Recent and current research include:

  • Cost-benefit analysis and process evaluation of a cross-border catchment management scheme (see sourcetotap.eu)
  • Barriers and solutions to the provision of blue-green infrastructures within the Carlingford catchment
  • Study of how behavioural economics can be used to enhance the development and uptake of agri-environment schemes
  • Field study exploring farmer and stakeholder attitudes to results-based agri-environment schemes
  • Economic analysis of measures to improve water quality as required by the Water Framework Directive (NI Water Regs 2019)
  • Survey of farmers in Derg catchment to examine behavioural change with respect to land management practices and to explore strategies to tackle water quality challenges

Selected Publications

Glass, C.A., Glass, D.H. Social Influence of Competing Groups and Leaders in Opinion Dynamics. Computational Economics (2020)

Glass, C.A., Glass, D.H. Opinion dynamics of social learning with a conflicting source, Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, Volume 563, (2021)