Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

PHD

PROFESSOR

BIO:

I studied forestry at the Master’s level including courses in microeconomics, forest economics and natural resource economics. This led to doctoral studies in forest economics and further advancement in the field of environmental and natural resource economics. I have worked with different aspects of benefits, costs, and policy applied to multiple-use of forests, threatened species, wildlife management and recreation, as well as methodological aspects on environmental valuation, the assessment and valuation of health effects from outdoor recreation, resource accounting, and cost-effectiveness in biodiversity conservation. My work is aimed at improving the economic basis for environmental and natural resource management. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Professor in Agricultural Economics

Responsibilities: Teaching, supervision, participation on evaluation committees, internal and external examinations, research, administration, outreach

QUALIFICATIONS:

*The Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

**The University of the West Indies

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS AND ACTIVITIES:

• The European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (EAERE)

EXPERTISE:

• Environmental Economics
• Natural Resource Economics
• Forest Economics
• Natural Resource Management
• Forestry
• Non-Market valuation

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

• The economic value of environmental and natural resources – applications to e.g. different types of outdoor recreation, hunting, biological diversity and other ecosystem services
• Cost effectiveness in nature conservation
• Environmental policy
• Bioeconomics
• Multiple uses of forests
• Health effects of outdoor recreation participation
• ustainable development and resource accounting
• Theoretical and methodological developments

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Books
  
  • Boman, M., Brännlund, R. & Kriström, B. (Eds.) 1999. Topics in environmental economics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
• Book Chapters
  • Boman, M. & Bostedt, G. 1999. Valuing the wolf in Sweden: Are benefits contingent on the supply? In: Boman, M., Brännlund, R. & Kriström, B. (Eds.): Topics in environmental economics. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 157-174.
  • Mattsson, L., Boman, M., Ericsson, G., Paulrud, A., Laitila, T., Kriström, B. & Brännlund, R. 2008. Welfare foundations for efficient management of wildlife and fish resources for recreational use in Sweden. In: Lovelock, B. (Ed.): Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife: Hunting, shooting and sport fishing. Oxon and New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, pp. 169-181.
• Papers
  • Boman, M., Bostedt, G. & Kriström, B. 1999. Obtaining welfare bounds in discrete-response valuation studies - A non-parametric approach. Land Economics 75(2), pp. 284-294.
  • Boman, M., Norman, J., Kindstrand, C. & Mattsson, L. 2008. On the budget for national environmental objectives and willingness to pay for protection of forest land. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 38, pp. 40-51.
  • Boman, M. 2009. To pay or not to pay for biodiversity in forests - What scale determines responses to willingness to pay questions with uncertain response options? Journal of Forest Economics 15, 79-91.
  • Boman, M., Mattsson, L., Ericsson, G & Kriström, B. 2011. Moose hunting values in Sweden now and two decades ago: The Swedish hunters revisited. Environmental and Resource Economics 50, pp.515–530.
  • Boman, M., Fredman, P., Lundmark, L. & Ericsson, G. 2013. Outdoor recreation – A necessity or a luxury? Estimation of Engel curves for Sweden. Journal of Outdoor Recreation and Tourism 3-4, pp.49–56
  • (Ellingson) Doctorman, L. & Boman, M. 2016. Perceived health state and willingness to pay for outdoor recreation: an analysis of forest recreationists and hunters. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 31(6), pp. 611-617.
• Conference Talks
  
  • Narine, L., Boman, M., Ali, A.&  Moonsammy S. 2015. Productivity in reproducible and non-renewable capital stock in an energy dependent economy: Sustainability in Trinidad and Tobago. Paper presented at the 21^st Annual Conference of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 24 - 27 June 2015, Helsinki, Finland.
    (http://www.webmeets.com/eaere/2015/prog/viewpaper.asp?pid=581 )

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Email: mattias.boman@sta.uwi.edu 

Telephone number(s): + 1 868 662 2002, Extension 83561

Office hours: Wednesdays 2pm-4pm

Postal Address:

Department of Agricultural Economics and Extension

Faculty of Food & Agriculture

The University of the West Indies

St. Augustine

Trinidad & Tobago W.I.

Social Media:

UWI Campus Research Publication

The completed research programme "Outdoor recreation in change"
The completed research programme "Sustainable management in broadleaved forests"