Research interests
Philip ("Pike") Stahlmann-Brown is Principal Economist and Research Priority Area Leader at Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research. He is an applied micro-econometrician with expertise in innovative survey design, enumeration, and analysis. Topics of interest include economic behaviour; complex decision making; market and non-market valuation of natural resources; land use and land-use change; climate adaptation; apiculture; risk, values, and preferences; and evaluative methods including cost-benefit analysis. Pike has developed and led innovative trainings on economic valuation of invasive alien species, biodiversity, and ecosystem services in Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the Pacific.
He has published extensively in leading journals in economics, particularly in the fields of environmental economics and development economics. His research has also made an impact in highly regarded interdisciplinary journals. His published work has been cited more than 3000 times.
Pike directs the Survey of Rural Decision Makers (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021-); the New Zealand (Bee) Colony Loss Survey (2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021-); and the Public Perceptions of New Zealand’s Environment survey (2022-). He also leads the Environmental Stewardship and Kaitiakitanga strategic outcome for the Biological Heritage National Science Challenge and sits on the Science and Research focus group of Apiculture New Zealand.
Qualifications
Michigan
PhD Economics
2003
Michigan
MA Economics
1999