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Economics and Finance
Canada
2026

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
64
Citations
16083
World Ranking
651
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award

Overview

Roy Brouwer is affiliated with the University of Waterloo in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science, with a substantial body of work spanning related subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, Ocean Engineering, Water Science and Technology, Pollution, and Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering.

The scientist's work is concentrated on several main topics, including:

  • Economic and Environmental Valuation
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
  • Water-Energy-Food Nexus Studies
  • Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
  • Sustainable Supply Chain Management
  • Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies

Roy Brouwer has published frequently in journals such as:

  • Ecological Economics
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Nature Sustainability
  • Water Resources Research

Some of their recent research papers include:

  • Managing nitrogen legacies to accelerate water quality improvement, 2022, Nature Geoscience
  • Modelling the impacts of climate and land use change on water security in a semi-arid forested watershed using InVEST, 2020, Journal of Hydrology
  • Anthropocene flooding: Challenges for science and society, 2020, Hydrological Processes
  • One size does not fit all: Toward regional conservation practice guidance to reduce phosphorus loss risk in the Lake Erie watershed, 2021, Journal of Environmental Quality
  • In the business of dirty oceans: Overview of startups and entrepreneurs managing marine plastic, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin

Roy Brouwer collaborates frequently with a number of co-authors, including:

  • P.J.H. van Beukering
  • Hanna Dijkstra
  • Saman Razavi
  • Sem Duijndam
  • Katrin Rehdanz

Best Publications

  • Contemporary Guidance for Stated Preference Studies

    Robert J. Johnston;Kevin J. Boyle;Wiktor Adamowicz;Jeff Bennett

  • Socioeconomic vulnerability and adaptation to environmental risk: a case study of climate change and flooding in Bangladesh.

    Roy Brouwer;Sonia Akter;Luke Brander;Enamul Haque

  • Ecosystem services and economic theory: integration for policy-relevant research.

    Brendan Fisher;Kerry Turner;Matthew Zylstra;Roy Brouwer

  • Environmental value transfer: state of the art and future prospects

    Roy Brouwer

  • The energy ladder: Theoretical myth or empirical truth? Results from a meta-analysis

    Bianca van der Kroon;Roy Brouwer;Pieter J.H. van Beukering

  • A meta-analysis of wetland contingent valuation studies

    R. Brouwer;I. H. Langford;I. J. Bateman;R. K. Turner

  • “A Convenient Truth”: Air travel passengers’ willingness to pay to offset their CO2 emissions

    R. Brouwer;L.M. Brander;P.J.H. van Beukering

  • Integrated ecological, economic and social impact assessment of alternative flood protection measures in the Netherlands

    Roy Brouwer;Remco van Ek

  • The Validity of Environmental Benefits Transfer: Further Empirical Testing

    Roy Brouwer;Roy Brouwer;Frank A. Spaninks

  • From principles to practice in paying for nature’s services

    S. Wunder;S. Wunder;R. Brouwer;R. Brouwer;S. Engel;D. Ezzine-de-Blas

  • Economic valuation of water resources in agriculture. From the sectoral to a functional perspective of natural resource management

    K. Turner;Rome . Land Fao;S. Georgiou

  • Integrated hydro-economic modelling: Approaches, key issues and future research directions

    Roy Brouwer;Marjan Hofkes

  • Spatial Preference Heterogeneity: A Choice Experiment

    Roy Brouwer;Julia Martin-Ortega;Julio Berbel

  • Making Benefit Transfers Work: Deriving and Testing Principles for Value Transfers for Similar and Dissimilar Sites Using a Case Study of the Non-Market Benefits of Water Quality Improvements Across Europe

    I. J. Bateman;R. Brouwer;S. Ferrini;S. Ferrini;M. Schaafsma

  • Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values - A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners

    Robert J. Johnston;John Rolfe;Randall S. Rosenberger;Roy Brouwer

  • Meta-analysis of institutional-economic factors explaining the environmental performance of payments for watershed services

    Roy Brouwer;Abonesh Tesfaye;Pieter Pauw

  • Economic valuation of regulating services provided by wetlands in agricultural landscapes: A meta-analysis

    Luke Brander;Luke Brander;Roy Brouwer;Alfred Wagtendonk

  • Choice certainty and consistency in repeated choice experiments

    Roy Brouwer;Thijs Dekker;John Rolfe;Jill Windle

  • Understanding soil conservation decision of farmers in the Gedeb watershed, Ethiopia

    A. Tesfaye;W. Negatu;R. Brouwer;P. van der Zaag;P. van der Zaag

  • Ecosystem services value, research needs, and policy relevance: a commentary

    R.K Turner;W.N Adger;R Brouwer

Frequent Co-Authors

Ian J. Bateman
Ian J. Bateman University of Exeter
Luke Brander
Luke Brander Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Pieter van der Zaag
Pieter van der Zaag IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
John Rolfe
John Rolfe Central Queensland University
Ian H. Langford
Ian H. Langford University of East Anglia
R.P. Griessen
R.P. Griessen Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh
J.C.J.M. van den Bergh Autonomous University of Barcelona
Richard S. J. Tol
Richard S. J. Tol University of Sussex
Robert J. Johnston
Robert J. Johnston Clark University
Sven Wunder
Sven Wunder European Forest Institute

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