James Benhin

Dr James Benhin

Job title: Lecturer in Marine & Coastal Environmental Economics (Wave Hub), School of Management (Plymouth Business School (Faculty))
Address: Room 233A, Cookworthy Building, Drake Circus,
Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA
Telephone: +441752585613
Facsimile: +44 (0)1752 585714
Email: james.benhin@plymouth.ac.uk

Role
Teaching and researching in many areas in environmental and resource economics including marine and coastal environmental economics, natural resource management, economics of climate change, agriculture and adaptation, and the economics of conservation and biodiversity in forests, rangelands and marine ecosystems.

Qualifications & background
D.Phil (Environmental Economics and Environmental Management) University of York
M.Phil (Economics), University of Ghana
B.A. (Hons) (Economics), University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Dip. Ed. University of Cape Coast, Ghana

Teaching interests
Natural resource economics
Environmental economics
Natural resource management
Marine and coastal environmental economics
Valuation of natural environment
Economics of climate change
Mathematical economics
Microeconomics

Staff serving as external examiners
External Examiner for PhD Theses, University of Pretoria, South Africa

External Examiner for MSc Theses, University of Malawi (Bunda Agriculture College), Malawi

Research interests
Marine resource economics
Economics of climate change and adaptation
Macroeconomic policies, trade and the environment
Economics of conservation and biodiversity

Grants & contracts
o Regional climate, water and agriculture: impacts on and adaptation of agro-ecological systems in Africa - A case study of South Africa, 2002 - 2006 (US$40,000 funded by the GEF/World Bank/TFESSD)

o Sustainable Development within Famouth Harbour: Environmental and socioeconomic issues (Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) Project No. KTP007098), 2008 - 2011. With John Dinwoodie and Sarah Tuck, Plymouth Business School (£97,013)

Publications

o Books

Dinar, A., Hassan, R., Mendelsohn, R. and Benhin, J. (eds.) (2008) Climate Change and Agriculture in Africa: Impact Assessment and Adaptation Strategies, London: Earthscan Publication Limited

o Refereed Chapters in Books:

Benhin, J.K. and Barbier, E.B. (2000) “Estimating the biodiversity effects of Structural Adjustment in Ghana” In C. Perrings (ed.), The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 268-308.

Benhin, J.K. and Barbier, E.B. (2000). “The Structural Adjustment Programme and Deforestation in Ghana” In C. Perrings (ed.), The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 225-267.

Benhin, J.K. and Barbier, E.B. (2000). “Forestry, deforestation and biodiversity in Ghana” In C. Perrings (ed.), The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa, Edward Elgar, London, pp. 177-224.

o Refereed Journal Articles

Hassan, R. Hertzler, G and Benhin, J.K.A. (2009) “Depletion of forest resources in Sudan: Intervention Options for optimal control”, Energy Policy 37: 1195 - 1203. doi: 10.1016/j.enpol.2008.10.049.

Benhin, J.K.A. (2008) “South African crop farming and climate change: An economic assessment of impacts”, Global Environmental Change 18: 666 – 678. doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2008.06.03.

Benhin, J.K.A. and Hassan, R.M. (2008) “A dynamic analysis of trade and biodiversity loss in semi-arid Southern Africa: The role of grazing activities”, International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics 11 (S08): 31-48.

Kurukulasuriya, P., Mendelsohn, R., Hassan, R., Benhin, J., Deressa, T., Diop, M., Eid, H.M., Fosu, Y.K., Gbetibouo, G., Jain, S., Mahamadou, A., Mano, R., Kabubo-Mariara, J., El-Marsafawy, S., Molua, E., Ouda, S., Ouedraogo, M., Se´ne, I., Maddison, D., Seo, S.N., and A. Dinar (2006) “Will African Agriculture Survive Climate Change?” World Bank Economic Review (WBER) 20 (3): 367-388.

Benhin, J.K.A. (2006) “Agriculture and deforestation in the tropics: A critical theoretical and empirical review”, Ambio 35(1): 9 - 16

Benhin, J.K.A. and Barbier, E.B. (2004) “Structural Adjustment Programme, deforestation and biodiversity loss in Ghana”, Environmental and Resource Economics 27(3):337 – 366.

White, P.C.L. and Benhin, J.K.A. (2004) “Factors influencing the incidence and scale of bovine tuberculosis in cattle in southwest England”, Preventive Veterinary Medicine 63: 1-7.

Benhin, J.K.A. (2002) “Participation methodology and neoclassical environmental economics: are theysubstitutes?”Global Ecology and Biogeography 11(2): 183-184.

Benhin, J.K.A. and Barbier, E.B. (2001) “The effects of the Structural Adjustment Programme on deforestation in Ghana”, Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 30(1):66-80

o Discussion Papers

Benhin, J.K.A. (2006) Climate Change and South African Agriculture: Impacts and Adaptation Options, CEEPA Discussion Paper 21, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy in Africa (CEEPA), University of Pretoria, Pretoria, http://www.ceepa.co.za/docs/CDPNo21.pdf.

o Non-Refereed Proceedings/Transactions:

Benhin, J.K.A. (2000) “James Fairhead and Melissa Leach: Reframing deforestation-global analysis and local realities - studies in West Africa, Global Environmental Change Series” (Book Review).

Benhin, J.K.A. and Barbier, E.B. (1999b) A comparative analyses of the effects of structural adjustment on agriculture and on forest cover in Cameroon and in Ghana. Final report for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).

Benhin, J.K.A. and Barbier, E.B. (1999a) A case study analysis of the effects of Structural Adjustment on Agriculture and on forest cover in Cameroon. Final Report for the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and the Central African Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE).

Reports & invited lectures

Visiting lecturer in natural resource economics and management, Collaborative Masters in Agricultural and Applied Economics (CMAAE) for Eastern and Southern Africa regions, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, August - September., 2007.

Visiting Fellow, Environment Department, University of York, January - September 2007

Guest Lecturer in the economics of natural resources management, CEEPA Regional Master Degree Program in Environmental Economics and Policy, University of Pretoria, South Africa, July - August 2002

Other academic activities

§ Reviewer for the following journals

        Environment and Development Economics
        Land Economics
        Journal of Environmental Management
        Global Ecology and Biogeography
        Eastern Africa Journal of Rural Development
        Environmental Conservation
        Forest Policy and Economics
        International Journal of Sustainable Agriculture
        Ecological Economics
        Conservation Letters
        Global and Planetary Change

Additional information
Project Coordinator, Regional climate, water and agriculture: impacts and adaptation of agro-ecological systems in 11 African countries - a multidiscplinary study, 2002 - 2006 (US$1.3 million funded by the GEF/World Bank/TFESSD)