Economist, Stanford

Robert Griffin

Rob’s research interests are focused on how preferences and incentives relate to the values people hold for coastal and marine environmental services. Rob received a B.A. in Economics and his Ph.D. in Environmental and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Rhode Island. During his graduate studies, Rob was a National Science Foundation IGERT fellow with an interdisciplinary research focus on coastal ecosystems. His dissertation research focused on the use of auctions for allocating rights to offshore energy resources. At the Natural Capital Project he has worked on developing models to value the role ecosystems play in providing a variety of different ecosystem services, including coastal protection, scenic quality, carbon sequestration, and drinking water quality.

Contact

rmgriff@stanford.edu

Publications

Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience. (2023). A Guideline for Project Developers. The World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/39811
Bolduc, W., Griffin, R., & Byron, C. (2023). Consumer willingness to pay for farmed seaweed with education on ecosystem services. Journal of Applied Phycology. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10811-023-02914-3
Nature-Based Solutions for Cities. (2023). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800376762
Economic evaluation of sea-level rise adaptation strongly influenced by hydrodynamic feedbacks. (2021). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 118(29), e2025961118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2025961118
Advancing Coastal Risk Reduction Science and Implementation by Accounting for Climate, Ecosystems, and People. (2019). Frontiers in Marine Science. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00556
Identification and Valuation of Adaptation Options in Coastal-Marine Ecosystems. (2013). Test Case from Placencia, Belize. Natural Capital Project. https://naturalcapitalproject.stanford.edu//sites/g/files/sbiybj25256/files/media/file/identification-and-valuation-of-adaptation-options-in-coastal-belize-final.pdf