I am an environmental and resource economist who works at the intersection of environmental economics and choice modeling, and specialize in trying to understand the value that nature and natural resources have for humans.
What is the total cost of an invasive species? How much are people willing to pay to protect cold-water corals along the Norwegian coast? What level of subsidy is necessary to incentivize Vietnamese shrimp farmers to invest in sustainable production practices?
Valuing nature is about making the implicit trade-offs explicit. It means obtaining estimates of costs and benefits associated with policy changes that are as precise as possible to provide policy makers with a good basis on which to make policy. Most models and methods used to value nature assume that people are rational and utility maximizing, but we know that in reality, this is not necessarily true. I use and develop advanced discrete choice models that can accommodate non-utility maximizing behavior to better understand how people make important decisions in both real and contingent markets. Better tools leads to better estimates and information for policy makers and ultimately better and more sustainable policies.
Since graduating with a PhD in 2016, I have published 16 peer reviewed papers in leading field journals, and 2 of the papers where I am first author have received prizes for "best paper". To see a full list of my publications, please see my Google Scholar page.
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Areas of work
- Environmental Economics and Valuation
- Choice Modeling
- Behavioural economics
- Fisheries Economics
- Sustainability
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Publications
Peer reviewed publications
Jacobsen, K. S., Sandorf, E. D., Loveridge, A. J., Dickman, A. J., Johnson, P. J., Mourato, S., Contu, D. & Macdonald, D. W., 2022, What is a lion worth to local people - Quantifying the costs of living alongside a top predator, Ecological Economics, 198
Sandorf, E. D., Grimsrud, K. & Lindhjem, H., 2022, Ponderous, proficient or professional? Survey experience and smartphone effects in stated preference research, Environmental and Resource Economics, forthcoming
Rendón, O. R, Sandorf, E. D. & Beaumont, N. J., 2022, Heterogeneity of values for coastal flood risk management with nature-based solutions, Journal of Environmental Management, 304
Danley, B., Sandorf, E. D. & Campbell, D., 2021, Putting your best fish forward: Investigating distance decay and relative preferences for fish conservation, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, accepted
Xuan, B. B., Sandorf, E. D. & Ngoc, Q. T. K., 2021, Stakeholder perceptions towards sustainable shrimp aquaculture in Vietnam, Journal of Environmental Management, 290
Ngoc, Q. T. K., Xuan, B. B., Sandorf, E. D., Phong, T. N., Trung, L. C. & Hien, T. T., 2021, Willingness to adopt improved shrimp aquaculture practices in Vietnam, Aquaculture Economics & Management, accepted
Chorus, C., Sandorf, E. D. & Mouter, N., 2020, Diabolical dilemmas of COVID-19: An empirical study into Dutch society’s trade-offs between health impacts and other effects of the lockdown, PloS One, 15(9)
Chorus, C., van Cranenburgh, S., Daniel, A., Sandorf, E. D., Sobhani, A. & Szep, T., 2020, Obfuscation maximization-based decision making: Theory, methodology and first empirical evidence, Mathematical Social Sciences, accepted
Campbell, D. & Sandorf, E. D., 2020, The use of latent variable models in policy: A road fraught with peril?, Bio-based and Applied Economics, accepted
Xuan, B. B. & Sandorf, E. D., 2020, Potential for sustainable aquaculture: Insights from discrete choice experiments, Environmental and Resource Economics, 77:401-421
Sandorf, E. D., Persson, L. & Broberg, T., 2020, Using an integrated choice and latent variable model to understand the impact of “professional” respondents in a stated preference survey, Resource and Energy Economics, 61
Armstrong, C. W, Aanesen, M., van Rensburg, T. M. & Sandorf, E. D., 2019, Willingness to pay to protect cold water corals, Conservation Biology, 33(6):1329-1337
Sandorf, E. D., 2018, Did you miss something? Inattentive respondents in discrete choice experiments, Environmental and Resource Economics, 73(4):1197-1235
Sandorf, E. D. & Campbell, D., 2018, Accommodating satisficing behavior in stated choice experiments, European Review of Agricultural Economics, 46(1):133-162
Daniel, A., Persson, L. & Sandorf, E. D., 2018, Accounting for elimination-by-aspects strategies and demand management in electricity contract choice, Energy Economics, 73:80-90
Sandorf, E. D., Crastes dit Sourd, R. & Mahieu, 2018, Left to right – line by line: The effect of attribute-alternative matrix displays on preferences and processing strategies, Journal of Choice Modelling, 29:113-132
Xuan, B. B., Sandorf, E. D. & Aanesen, M., 2017, Informing management strategies for a reserve: Results from a discrete choice experiment survey, Ocean and Coastal Management, 145:35-43
Sandorf, E. D., Campbell, D. & Hanley, N., 2016, Disentangling the influence of knowledge on attribute non-attendance, Journal of Choice Modelling, 24:36-50
Sandorf, E. D., Aanesen, M. & Navrud, S., 2016, Valuing unfamiliar and complex environmental goods: A comparison of valuation workshops and internet panel surveys with videos, Ecological Economics, 129:50-61Other publications
Sandorf, E. E., 2019, cmdlR: Choice Modeling in R, R package, URL: https://github.com/edsandorf/cmdlr
Sandorf, E. D., Chorus, C. & van Cranenburgh, S., 2019, obfuscatoR: Obfuscation Game Designs, R package, URL: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=obfuscatoR
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Lecturing
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Projects & research
Areas of research
Theme:
- Environment
- Climate
- Economics
Specialities:
- Choice Modeling
- Environmental Economics
- Valuation of Ecosystem Services
Research areas:
- Economics