Ben Groom
Associate
Business
Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
Belarus
Biography
Ben Groom is an applied economist whose main research focus is on intergenerational equity and social discounting for long-term public projects, such as those relating to climate change and biodiversity conservation. Ben also does empirical work and applied theory on agricultural development and adaptation to climate change, deforestation and biodiversity economics.
Research Interest
Social discounting and intergenerational equity Agricultural economics, adaptation to climate change and the role of new varieties and crop genetic diversity, The economics of biodiversity
