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Boyd, Jim

Director of Social Science & Policy

boyd@rff.org

202-328-5000

Dr. James Boyd, the Director of Social Science and Policy, is a Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, Washington DC and Director of RFF’s Center for the Management of Ecological Wealth. An economist by training, his work focuses on the measurement and management of ecological wealth, goods, and services. Previously, he was Director of RFF’s Energy and Natural Resources Division (2002-2007). Boyd has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford University (2007) and Washington University in St Louis (1996) and has served on National Academy of Science, U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board, and numerous other government and private advisory panels. As a consultant he has advised the World Bank, European Commission, numerous federal agencies and NGOs concerned with conservation and environmental protection. James received his PhD in Applied Microeconomics from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, in 1993.

Resources
Private-sector conservation under the US Endangered Species Act: a return-on-investment perspective	Apr 06, 2020 Article published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
The Natural Capital Accounting Opportunity: Let's Really Do the Numbers	Oct 31, 2018 Article published in BioScience.
Understanding the Impacts of Research Synthesis	May 14, 2018 Article published in Environmental Science and Policy.
Benefit relevant indicators: Ecosystem services measures that link ecological and social outcomes	Dec 11, 2017 Article published in Ecological Indicators.
So you want your research to be relevant? Building the bridge between ecosystem services research and practice	Jul 04, 2017 Article published in Ecosystem Services.
Science and Federal Environmental Decisions: A Survey of Interactions, Successes, and Difficulties	Feb 01, 2017 Discussion paper published by Resources for the Future.
Practices for facilitating interdisciplinary synthetic research: the National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC)	Feb 07, 2016 Article published in Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability.
Business Motivations for Conservation	Jan 13, 2014 Article published in Resources Magazine.

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