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Rauscher, M. and E.B. Barbier. "Biodiversity and Geography." Resource and Energy Economics (accepted).

Granek, E.F., Polasky, S., Kappel, C.V., Reed, D.J., Stoms, D.M., Koch, E.W., Kennedy, C.J., Cramer, L.A., Hacker, S.D., Barbier, E.B., Aswani, S., Ruckelshaus, M., Perillo, G.M., Silliman, B.R., Muthiga, N., Bael, D., and Wolanski, E. "Ecosystem Services as a Common Language for Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management." Conservation Biology (in press).

Barbier, E.B., Burgess, J.C. and Grainger, A. “The Forest Transition: Towards a More Comprehensive Theoretical Framework” Land Use Policy (in press).

Barbier, E.B. "Ecosystems as Natural Assets." Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics 4(8) (in press).

Hanley, N., Tinch, D., Angelopoulos, K., Davies, A., Barbier, E.B. and Watson, F. 2009. “What Drives Long-Run Biodiversity Change? New Insights from Combining Economics, Paleoecology and Environmental History.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 57(1):5-20.

Koch, Evamaria W., Edward B. Barbier, Brian R. Silliman, Denise J. Reed, Gerardo M.E. Perillo, Sally D. Hacker, Elise F. Granek, Jurgenne H. Primavera, Nyawire Muthiga, Stephen Polasky, Benjamin S Halpern, Chris J Kennedy, Carrie V Kappel and Eric Wolanski. 2009. “Non-Linearity in Ecosystem Services: Temporal and Spatial Variability in Coastal Protection.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 7(1):29-37.

Barbier, E.B. 2008. "Letter: Paying for a Dirty and Leaky Bucket: Further Comments on the Bailout," The Economists' Voice Vol. 5 : Iss. 7, Article 5.  http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol5/iss7/art5

Barbier, E.B., Koch, E.W., Silliman, B.R., Hacker, S.D., Wolanski, E., Primavera, J., Granek, E.F., Polasky, S., Aswani, S., Cramer, L.A., Stoms, D.M., Kennedy, C.J., Bael, D., Kappel, C.V., Perillo, G.M. and Reed, D.J. 2008. “Response to N. Koedam and F. Dahdouh-Guebas’s E-Letter: Ecological Quality Changes Precede Changes in Quantity in Mangrove Forests” Science (E-Letter, 2 October 2008) http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/eletters/319/5861/321?ck=nck

Barbier, E.B. 2008. “Poverty, Development, and Ecological Services.” International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 2(1):1-27.

Bhaduri, A. and Barbier, E.B. 2008.  “Political Altruism of Transboundary Water Sharing.” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy Vol. 8: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 32. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol8/iss1/art32

Umanskaya, V.I. and Barbier, E.B. 2008. “Can Rich Countries Become Pollution Havens?” Review of International Economics 16(4):627-640.

Walters, B.B., Rönnbäck, P., Kovacs, J., Crona, B., Hussain, S.A., Badola, R., Primavera, J., Barbier, E.B. and Dahdouh-Guebas, F. 2008. “Ethnobiology, Socio-economics and Management of

Mangrove Forests: A Review.” Aquatic Botany 89(2):220-236.

Barbier, E.B., Koch, E.W., Silliman, B.R., Hacker, S.D., Wolanski, E., Primavera, J., Granek, E.F., Polasky, S., Aswani, S., Cramer, L.A., Stoms, D.M., Kennedy, C.J., Bael, D., Kappel, C.V., Perillo, G.M. and Reed, D.J. 2008. “Vegetation’s Role in Coastal Protection.” Science 320:176-177.

Barbier, E.B. 2008. “In the Wake of Tsunami: Lessons Learned from the Household Decision to Replant Mangroves in Thailand.” Resource and Energy Economics 30:229-249

Bhaduri, A. and Barbier, E.B. 2008. “International Water Transfer and Sharing: The Case of the Ganges River.” Environment and Development Economics 13(1):29-52.

Barbier, E.B., Koch, E.W., Silliman, B.R., Hacker, S.D., Wolanski, E., Primavera, J., Granek, E.F., Polasky, S., Aswani, S., Cramer, L.A., Stoms, D.M., Kennedy, C.J., Bael, D., Kappel, C.V., Perillo, G.M. and Reed, D.J. 2008. “Coastal Ecosystem-Based Management with Nonlinear Ecological Functions and Values.” Science 319:321-323.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. “Natural Capital and Labor Allocation: Mangrove-Dependent Households in Thailand.”  Journal of Environment and Development 16(December): 398-431.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. “Land Conversion, Interspecific Competition and Bioinvasion in a Tropical Ecosystem.” Journal of Agricultural & Applied Economics 39(October):133-147.

Barbier, E.B. and M. Rauscher. 2007. “Trade and Development in a Labor-Surplus Economy” The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy: Vol. 7: Iss. 1 (Topics), Article 45. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/vol7/iss1/art45

Barbier, E.B. and Hultberg, P. 2007. “Economic Integration, Environmental Harmonization and Firm Relocation.” Environment and Development Economics 12(3):379-402.

Worm, B., Barbier, E.B., Beaumont, N., Duffy, J.E., Folke, C., Halpern, B.S., Jackson, J.B.C., Lotzke, H.K., Micehli, F., Palumbi, S.R., Sala, E., Selkoe, K.A., Stachowicz, J.J. and Watson, R. 2007. “Biodiversity Loss in the Oceans: How Bad Is It?” Science 316:1282-1284.

Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. 2007. “On Price Liberalization, Poverty and Shifting Cultivation: An Example from Mexico.” Land Economics, 83(2):192-216.

Bateman, Ian J., Barbier, E.B. and Barrett, S. 2007. “Introduction to the Special Issue in Honour of David W. Pearce: Environmental Economics and Policy.” Environmental and Resource Economics 37:1-6.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. “Frontiers and Sustainable Economic Development.” Environmental and Resource Economics 37:271-295.

Barbier, E.B. 2007. “Valuing Ecosystem Services as Productive Inputs” Economic Policy 22 (49): 177–229.

 Barbier, E.B. 2006. “Book Review: An Economic Approach for Water Management and Conflict Resolution in the Middle East and Beyond." Journal of Economic Literature 44: 1074-1075.

Worm, B., Barbier, E.B., Beaumont, N., Duffy, J.E., Folke, C., Halpern, B.S., Jackson, J.B.C., Lotzke, H.K., Micehli, F., Palumbi, S.R., Sala, E., Selkoe, K.A., Stachowicz, J.J. and Watson, R. 2006. “Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services.” Science 314:787-790.

Barbier, E.B. and Knowler, D. 2006. "Commercialization Decisions and the Economics of Introduction." Euphytica 148(1/2):151-164.

Barbier, E.B. 2006. “Natural Barriers to Natural Disasters: Replanting Mangroves after the Tsunami.” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(3):124-131.

Pascual, U. and Barbier, E.B. 2006. “Deprived Land-Use Intensification in Shifting Cultivation: The Population Pressure Hypothesis Revisited” Agricultural Economics 34:155-165.

Barbier, E.B.  and Heal, G.R. 2006. “Valuing Ecosystem Services.” The Economists’ Voice Vol. 3: No. 3, Article 2. Available at http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol3/iss3/art2

Knowler, D. and Barbier, E. 2005. "Managing the Black Sea Anchovy Fishery with Nutrient Enrichment and a Biological Invader". Marine Resource Economics 20(3): 263-285.

Barbier, E.B. 2005. “Natural Resource-Based Economic Development in History”. World Economics 6(3):103-152..

Barbier, E.B., Damania, R. and Léonard, D. 2005. "Corruption, Trade and Resource Conversion" Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 50:276-299.

Bulte, E.H. and Barbier, E.B. 2005. “Trade and Renewable Resources in a Second-Best World: An Overview.” Environmental and Resource Economics 30(4):423-463.

Knowler, D. and Barbier, E.B. 2005. “Importing Exotic Plants and the Risk of Invasion: Are Market-Based Instruments Adequate?” Ecological Economics 52:341-354.

Barbier, E.B. 2005. "Frontier Expansion and Economic Development." Contemporary Economic Policy 23(2):286-303.

Barbier, E.B. 2004. “Explaining Agricultural Land Expansion and Deforestation in Developing Countries.” American Journal of Agricultural Economics 86(5):1347-1353.

Hultberg, P. and E.B. Barbier. 2004. "Cross-Country Policy Harmonization with Rent-Seeking.” Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy Vol. 3: Iss. 2. Article 4. http://www.bepress.com/bejeap/contributions/vol3/iss2/art4.

Barbier, E.B. and Shogren, J.R. 2004. "Growth With Endogenous Risk of Biological Invasion." Economic Inquiry 42(4):587-601.

Barbier, E.B. and Bulte, E.H. 2004. “Introduction to the Symposium on Trade, Renewable Resources and Biodiversity.” Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 48(2):883-890.

Barbier, E.B. and Cox, M. 2004. “An Economic Analysis of Shrimp Farm Expansion and Mangrove Conversion in Thailand,” Land Economics 80(3):389-407.

Benhin, J.K.A. and Barbier, E.B.  2004.  "Structural Adjustment Programme, Deforestation and Biodiversity Loss in Ghana." Environmental and Resource Economics 27:337-366.

Barbier, E.B. 2004.  "Water and Economic Growth." Economic Record 80: 1-16.

Barbier, E.B. 2004. “Agricultural Expansion, Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America: Implications for Long-Run Economic Development,” World Development 32(1):137-157.

Barbier, E.B.  2003.  "Upstream Dams and Downstream Water Allocation - The Case of the Hadejia-Jama'are Floodplain, Northern Nigeria," Water Resources Research 39(11):1311-1319.

Barbier, E.B., 2003.  “Explaining Agricultural Expansion Resource Booms and Growth in Latin America,” Environment Development and Sustainability 5: 437-458.

Barbier, E.B. and Cox, M. 2003. "Does Economic Development Lead to Mangrove Loss? A Cross-Country Analysis,” Contemporary Economic Policy 21(4):418-432.

Barbier, E.B., 2003, “The Role of Natural Resources in Economic Development.” Australian Economic Papers 42(2):253-272.

Rodwell, L.D., Barbier, E.B., Roberts, C.M. and McClanahan, T.R., 2003, “The Importance of Habitat Quality for Marine Reserve-Fishery Linkages.” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 60:171-181.

Barbier, E.B., 2003, “Habitat-Fishery Linkages and Mangrove Loss in Thailand,” Contemporary Economic Policy, 21(1):59-77.

Rodwell, L.D., Barbier, E.B., Roberts, C.M. and McClanahan, T.R., 2002. “A Model of Tropical Marine Reserve-Fishery Linkages,” Natural Resource Modeling, 15(4):453-486.

Acharya, G. and Barbier, E.B. 2002. “Using Domestic Water Analysis to Value Groundwater Recharge in the Hadejia-Jama’are Floodplain, Northern Nigeria,” American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 84(2):415-426.

Barbier, E.B., Strand, I. and Sathirathai, S., 2002,  “Do Open Access Conditions Affect the Valuation of an Externality? Estimating the Welfare Effects of Mangrove-Fishery Linkages,” Environmental and Resource Economics 21(4):343-367.

Barbier, E.B. and Cox, M., 2002, “Economic and Demographic Factors Affecting Mangrove Loss in the Coastal Provinces of Thailand, 1979-1996,” Special Issue of Ambio, 3(4):351-357.

Barbier, E.B., 2002, "Institutional Constraints and Deforestation: An Application to Mexico,” Economic Inquiry, 40(3):508-519.

Barrett, C.B., Barbier, E.B. and Reardon, T., 2002,  “Agroindustrialization, Globalization, and International Development:  the Environmental Implications,” Environment and Development Economics, 6:419-433.

Perrings, C., M. Williamson, E.B. Barbier, D. Delfino, S. Dalmazzone, J. Shogren, P. Simmons, and A. Watkinson., 2002, “Biological Invasion risks and the Public Good: an Economic Perspective,” Conservation Ecology, 6(1):1.

Knowler, D., Barbier, E.B.and Strand, I., 2001, "An Open-Access Model of Fisheries and Nutrient Enrichment in the Black Sea,” Marine Resource Economics, 16(3):195-217.

Barbier, E.B., 2001, "A Note on the Economics of Biological Invasions," Ecological Economics, 39(197-202.

Barbier, E.B. and Burgess, J.C., 2001, “The Economics of Tropical Deforestation,” Journal of Economic Surveys, 15(3):413-432.

Barbier, E.B. and Burgess, J.C., 2001, “Tropical Deforestation, Tenure Insecurity and Unsustainability,” Forest Science, 47(4):497-509..

Benhin, J. and Barbier, E.B., 2001, “The Effects of the Structural Adjustment Program on Deforestation in Ghana,” Agricultural and Resource Economics Review 30/1:66-80.

Barbier, E.B. 2001, “The Economics of Tropical Deforestation and Land Use: An Introduction to the Special Issue,” Land Economics, 77:155-171.

Sathirathai, S. and Barbier, E.B., 2001, "Valuing Mangrove Conservation in Southern Thailand," Contemporary Economic Policy, 19(2):109-122. 

Barbier, E.B., 2000, “The Economic Linkages between Rural Poverty and Land Degradation: Some Evidence from Africa,” Agriculture, Ecosystems and Environment, 82:355-370.

Barbier, E.B., 2000, “Valuing the Environment as Input: Applications to Mangrove-Fishery Linkages,” Ecological Economics, 35:47-61.

Barbier, E.B., 2000, “Links between Economic Liberalization and Rural Resource Degradation in the Developing Regions,” Agricultural Economics, 23:299-310.

Barbier, E.B., 2000, “Biodiversity, Trade and International Agreements,” Journal of Economic Studies, 27(1/2):55-74.