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  • Palmer, Charles, Groom, Ben, Sileci, Lorenzo, Langton, Steve (2026). Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production. American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 108(1), 254 - 284. https://doi.org/10.1111/ajae.12530 picture_as_pdf
  • Venmans, Frank, Rickels, Wilfried, Groom, Ben (2026). Reducing the large short-lived impact of methane emissions with temporary carbon removals. Nature Climate Change, 16(1), 19 - 20. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02511-x picture_as_pdf
  • Venmans, Frank, Rickels, Wilfried, Groom, Ben (2026). Temporary carbon dioxide removals to offset methane emissions. Nature Climate Change, 16(1), 37 - 42. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-025-02487-8 picture_as_pdf
  • Silvestro, Daniele, Goria, Stefano, Groom, Ben, Sterner, Thomas, Antonelli, Alexandre (2025). The 30 by 30 biodiversity commitment and financial disclosure: metrics matter. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 77, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2025.101587 picture_as_pdf
  • Drupp, Moritz A., Turk, Zachary M., Groom, Ben, Heckenhahn, Jonas (2025). Global evidence on the income elasticity of willingness to pay, relative price changes and public natural capital values. Environmental and Resource Economics, 88(12), 3765 - 3804. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-025-01042-5 picture_as_pdf
  • Butler, Amber, Groom, Ben, Milner-Gulland, E. J. (2025). Local people's preferences for housing development-associated Biodiversity Net Gain in England. Land Use Policy, 158, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2025.107758 picture_as_pdf
  • Xin, Wei, Grant, Lewis, Groom, Ben, Zhang, Chendi (2025). Noisy biodiversity: the impact of ESG biodiversity ratings on asset prices. Ecological Economics, 236, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2025.108662 picture_as_pdf
  • Groom, Ben, Venmans, Frank (2025). The social value of temporary carbon removals and delayed emissions. Environmental and Energy Policy and the Economy, 6(1), 169 - 212. picture_as_pdf
  • Bateman, Ian J., Binner, Amy, Addicott, Ethan T., Balmford, Ben, Cho, Frankie H.T., Daily, Gretchen C., De-Gol, Anthony, Eisenbarth, Sabrina, Faccioli, Michela & Ferguson-Gow, Henry et al (2024). How to make land use policy decisions: integrating science and economics to deliver connected climate, biodiversity, and food objectives. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 121(49). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2407961121 picture_as_pdf
  • Delacote, Philippe, L’Horty, Tara, Kontoleon, Andreas, West, Thales A.P., Creti, Anna, Filewod, Ben, LeVelly, Gwenole, Guizar-Coutiño, Alejandro, Groom, Ben, Elias, Micah (2024). Strong transparency required for carbon credit mechanisms. Nature Sustainability, 7(6), 706 - 713. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01310-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Drupp, M. A., Hänsel, M. C., Fenichel, E. P., Freeman, M., Gollier, C., Groom, Ben, Heal, G. M., Howard, P. H., Millner, A. & Moore, F. C. et al (2024). Accounting for the increasing benefits from scarce ecosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.), 383(6687), 1062 - 1064. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk2086 picture_as_pdf
  • Tedersoo, Leho, Sepping, Jaan, Morgunov, Alexey S., Kiik, Martin, Esop, Kristiina, Rosenvald, Raul, Hardwick, Kate, Breman, Elinor, Purdon, Rachel & Groom, Ben et al (2024). Towards a co‐crediting system for carbon and biodiversity. PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, 6(1), 18 - 28. https://doi.org/10.1002/ppp3.10405 picture_as_pdf
  • Balmford, Andrew, Keshav, Srinivasan, Venmans, Frank, Coomes, David, Groom, Ben, Madhavapeddy, Anil, Swinfield, Tom (2023). Realizing the social value of impermanent carbon credits. Nature Climate Change, 13(11), 1172 - 1178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01815-0 picture_as_pdf
  • Knoke, Thomas, Hanley, Nick, Roman-Cuesta, Rosa Maria, Groom, Ben, Venmans, Frank, Paul, Carola (2023). Trends in tropical forest loss and the social value of emission reductions. Nature Sustainability, 6(11), 1373 - 1384. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01175-9 picture_as_pdf
  • Groom, Ben, Venmans, Frank (2023). The social value of offsets. Nature, 619(7971), 768 - 773. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-06153-x picture_as_pdf
  • Nesje, Frikk, Drupp, Moritz A., Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2023). Philosophers and economists agree on climate policy paths but for different reasons. Nature Climate Change, 13(6), 515 - 522. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-023-01681-w picture_as_pdf
  • Balmford, Andrew, Brancalion, Pedro H.S., Coomes, David, Filewod, Ben, Groom, Ben, Guizar-Couti Ño, Alejandro, Jones, Julia P.G., Keshav, Srinivasan, Kontoleon, Andreas & Madhavapeddy, Anil et al (2023). Credit credibility threatens forests. Science (New York, N.Y.), 380(6644), 466 - 467. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.adh3426
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles, Sileci, Lorenzo (2022). Carbon emissions reductions from Indonesia's moratorium on forest concessions are cost-effective yet contribute little to Paris pledges. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 119(5). https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2102613119 picture_as_pdf
  • Venmans, Frank, Groom, Ben (2021). Social discounting, inequality aversion, and the environment. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 109, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2021.102479 picture_as_pdf
  • Groom, Ben, Turk, Zachary (2021). Reflections on the Dasgupta Review on the economics of biodiversity. Environmental and Resource Economics, 79(1), 1 - 23. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-021-00560-2 picture_as_pdf
  • Cavatora, Elisa, Groom, Ben (2020). Does deterrence change preferences? Evidence from a natural experiment. European Economic Review, 127, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euroecorev.2020.103456 picture_as_pdf
  • Hansel, Martin C., Drupp, Moritz A., Johansson, Daniel A. J., Nesje, Frikk, Azar, Christian, Freeman, Mark. C., Groom, Ben, Sterner, Thomas (2020). Climate economics support for the UN climate targets. Nature Climate Change, 10(8), 781-789. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-0833-x picture_as_pdf
  • Drupp, Moritz A., Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Nesje, Frikk (2018). Discounting disentangled. American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 10(4), 109-134. https://doi.org/10.1257/pol.20160240
  • Gorst, Ashley, Dehlavi, Ali, Groom, Ben (2018). Crop productivity and adaptation to climate change in Pakistan. Environment and Development Economics, 23(6), 679-701. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X18000232 picture_as_pdf
  • Atkinson, Giles, Groom, Ben, Hanley, Nicholas, Mourato, Susana (2018). Environmental valuation and benefit-cost analysis in U.K. policy. Journal of Benefit Cost Analysis, https://doi.org/10.1017/bca.2018.6
  • Groom, Ben, Maddison, David (2018). New estimates of the elasticity of marginal utility for the UK. Environmental and Resource Economics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-018-0242-z
  • Emmerling, Johannes, Groom, Ben, Wettingfield, Tanja (2017). Discounting and the representative median agent. Economics Letters, 161, 78-81. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2017.09.031
  • Groom, Ben, Hepburn, Cameron (2017). Looking back at social discounting policy: The influence of papers, presentations, political preconditions, and personalities. Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 11(2), 336-356. https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/rex015
  • Andersen, Lykke E., Groom, Ben, Killick, Evan, Ledezma, Juan Carlos, Palmer, Charles, Weinhold, Diana (2017). Modelling land use, deforestation, and policy: a hybrid optimisation-heterogeneous agent model with application to the Bolivian Amazon. Ecological Economics, 135, 76-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.12.033
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2016). How certain are we about the certainty-equivalent longterm social discount rate? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 79, 152-168. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2016.06.004
  • Dietz, Simon, Groom, Ben, Pizer, William A. (2016). Weighing the costs and benefits of climate change to our children. The Future of Children, 26(1), 133-155.
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2015). Positively gamma discounting: combining the opinions of experts on the social discount rate. The Economic Journal, 125(585), 1015 - 1024. https://doi.org/10.1111/ecoj.12129
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Zeckhauser, Richard J. (2015). Better predictions, better allocations: scientific advances and adaptation to climate change. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 373(2055). https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0122
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Panopoulou, Ekaterini, Pantelidis, Theologos (2015). Declining discount rates and the Fisher Effect: inflated past, discounted future? Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 73, 32-49. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2015.06.003
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2014). Relaxing constraints as a conservation policy. Environment and Development Economics, 19(4), 502-528. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X13000545
  • Arrow, K. J., Cropper, M. L., Gollier, C., Groom, B., Heal, G. M., Newell, R. G., Nordhaus, W. D., Pindyck, R. S., Pizer, W. A. & Portney, P. R. et al (2014). Should governments use a declining discount rate in project analysis? Review of Environmental Economics and Policy, 8(2), 145-163. https://doi.org/10.1093/reep/reu008
  • Cropper, Maureen L., Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben, Pizer, William A. (2014). Declining discount rates. American Economic Review, 104(5), 538-543. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.104.5.538
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2014). Using equity premium survey data to estimate future wealth. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 45(4), 665-963. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11156-014-0451-7
  • Gollier, C., Groom, Ben (2013). Pricing the planet's future: the economics of discounting in an uncertain world. Journal of Economic Literature, 51(3), 894-897. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.51.3.883.r7
  • Arrow, K., Cropper, M., Gollier, C., Groom, B., Heal, G., Newell, R., Nordhaus, W., Pindyck, R., Pizer, W. & Portney, P. et al (2013). Determining benefits and costs for future generations. Science, 341(6144), 349-350. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1235665
  • Freeman, Mark C., Groom, Ben (2013). Biodiversity valuation and the discount rate problem. Accounting, Auditing and Accountability Journal, 26(5), 715-745. https://doi.org/10.1108/AAAJ-02-2013-1226
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2012). REDD+ and rural livelihoods. Biological Conservation, 154, 42-52. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2012.03.002
  • Swanson, Tim, Groom, Ben (2012). Regulating global biodiversity: what is the problem? Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 28(1), 114-138. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxrep/grs003
  • Gatti, Rupert, Goeschl, Timo, Groom, Ben, Swanson, Timothy (2011). The biodiversity bargaining problem. Environmental and Resource Economics, 48(4), 609-628. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-010-9416-z
  • Groom, Ben, Grosjean, Pauline, Kontoleon, Andreas, Swanson, Timothy, Zhang, Shiqiu (2010). Relaxing rural constraints: a 'win-win' policy for poverty and environment in China? Oxford Economic Papers, 62(1), 132-156. https://doi.org/10.1093/oep/gpp021
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2010). Cost-effective provision of environmental services: the role of relaxing market constraints. Environment and Development Economics, 15(2), 219-240. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1355770X09990167
  • Groom, Ben, Koundouri, Phoebe, Nauges, Céline, Thomas, Alban (2008). The story of the moment: risk averse cypriot farmers respond to drought management. Applied Economics, 40(3), 315-326. https://doi.org/10.1080/00036840600592916
  • Hepburn, Cameron, Groom, Ben (2007). Gamma discounting and expected net future value. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 53(1), 99-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeem.2006.03.005
  • Groom, Ben, Hepburn, Cameron, Koundouri, Phoebe, Pearce, David (2005). Declining discount rates: the long and the short of it. Environmental and Resource Economics, 32(4), 445-493. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10640-005-4681-y
  • Pearce, David, Groom, Ben, Hepburn, Cameron, Koundouri, Phoebe (2003). Valuing the future: recent advances in social discounting. World Economics, 4(2), 121-141.
    • Chapter
  • Groom, Ben, Hepburn, Cameron, Koundouri, Phoebe (2006). Implications of declining discount rates for UK climate change policy. In Peace, D. (Ed.), Valuing the Environment in Developed Countries . Edward Elgar.
    • Dataset
  • Venmans, Frank, Drupp, Moritz, Hänsel, Martin, Fenichel, Eli, Freeman, Mark, Gollier, Christian, Groom, Ben, Heal, Geoffrey, Howard, Peter & Millner, Antony et al (2024). Data from: The increasing benefits from ecosystems. [Dataset]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10070095
  • Sileci, Lorenzo, Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2021). Replication Data for: Carbon emissions reductions from Indonesia's Moratorium on forest concessions are cost-effective yet contribute little to Paris pledges. [Dataset]. Harvard Dataverse. https://doi.org/10.7910/dvn/0euw82
    • Online resource
  • Freeman, Mark, Groom, Ben, Zechauser, Richard (2015). Refining the climate science will be essential for firms’ ability to adapt to global warming.
    • Working paper
  • van der Ploeg, Frederick, Emmerling, Johannes, Groom, Ben (2023). The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality and economic uncertainty. (CCCEP Working Paper 414). Centre for Climate Change Economics and Policy. picture_as_pdf
  • van der Ploeg, Frederick, Emmerling, Johannes, Groom, Ben (2023). The social cost of carbon with intragenerational inequality and economic uncertainty. (Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Working Papers 389). Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science. picture_as_pdf
  • Palmer, Charles, Groom, Ben, Langton, Steve, Sileci, Lorenzo (2022). Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production. (Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series 34). Department of Geography and Environment, LSE. picture_as_pdf
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2009). Environmental services and poverty alleviation: either, or, or both? (Discussion paper series 46.2009). University of Cambridge. Department of Land Economy.
  • Groom, Ben, Palmer, Charles (2008). Direct vs indirect payments for environmental services: the role of relaxing market constraints. (Discussion paper series no. 36.2008). University of Cambridge. Department of Land Economy.