His research focuses on the economic valuation of marine and coastal ecosystem services in Norway, where he takes part in the research projects WINDLAND, MarES and Coast-Benefit. Professor Ståle Navrud at NMBU is his supervisor and Professor Roy Brouwer at the Water Institute is his co-supervisor.
Anders’ most recent study is with Prof. Ståle Navrud where they compare how reliable benefit transfer techniques are in comparison with using expert predictions from a Delphi contingent valuation survey to determine Norwegian households’ willingness to pay to preserve the Amazon rainforest.
The Amazon rainforest is an invaluable global resource that provides benefits to local and distant beneficiaries. The forest provides local, regional and global ecosystem services such as hydrological services, carbon storage and non-use values. However, 40 per-cent of the forest could be deforested by 2050. It is thus important to determine how much distant beneficiaries and the international community should compensate the Amazonian countries with to reduce the deforestation and preserve the forest. Anders and Ståle found that asking experts to predict distant beneficiaries’ willingness-to-pay to preserve the Amazon rainforest is substantially more reliable than using well established benefit transfer techniques.