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Curtis is an economist at Fera with interests in the application of quantitative economic models to issues of trade, biosecurity risk, natural capital, and the circular economy.
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Area of expertise
Agricultural & Natural Resource Economics
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Years of experience
2
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Highest qualification
MSc
Curtis is involved in several projects, which include a comparison of costs and benefits of plant health management strategies and an assessment of non-woodland tree establishment programmes.
Curtis has a Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree in Applied Economics from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada) and a Master of Science degree in Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics from the University of Alberta (Edmonton, Canada).
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Read about Curtis's latest research project...
· Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme, Caliber (2021-2022): trade model analysis incorporating risk of invasive plant pests and pathogens; farm level economic decision model to use next generation sequencing for virus detection.
· Defra Shared Outcomes Fund: Trees Outside Woodlands (2022 – 2023): an economic cost assessment of tree establishment trials in urban and agricultural landscapes across five local authorities.
· Economic cost of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks (2022): assessment of economic impacts of recent avian influenza outbreak.
· EU China SAFE (2021 – 2022): trade impact assessment of safe versus contaminated meat products; stakeholder perceptions of a virtual EU-China virtual laboratory.
· Land 360 (2022): economic modelling of farm-level land use options, including arable crops, dedicated energy crops, woodland creation, and biodiversity improvement.
· Defra Future Proofing Plant Health (2021 – 2023): web-based tool to assess economically optimal control strategies for oak processionary moth (OPM).
Latest Papers and Articles
McKnight, C., Qiu, F., Luckert, M., & Hauer, G. (2021). Prices for a second-generation biofuel industry in Canada: Market linkages between Canadian wheat and US energy and agricultural commodities. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 69(3), 337-351. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12295
McKnight, C., Qiu, F., Luckert, M., & Hauer, G. (2022). Price volatility spillovers between Canadian and US, agricultural and fuel markets. Biofuels, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2022.2116770
Events past and future
Fera Science Symposium 2021 – “An Economics Perspective of Natural Capital & Soil”
FERA Science Symposium 2022 – “Monetizing Biodiversity and Carbon: Implications for land use change”
Curtis and their team work with customers to deliver the following services within Fera...
Remote Sensing & Mapping
If you need to survey an area of land for development, crop or vegetation monitoring, land condition assessment or any other spatial or mapping study – you can save considerable time, money & resources with Fera’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services.
Economics
We help societies to become more resilient or achieve the three pillars of sustainability through combining bottom and top-down decision making approaches under rapid socio-economic changes. Fera can help you to understand the likely impacts and cost-effectiveness of your decisions and actions, so you can make well-informed choices on how to deploy the economic resources available.
Environmental Planning & Policy
Fera is in a unique position to combine academic research, big data, forecasting models and information from a host of sources to inform practical environmental solutions and policy decisions across the public and private sector.
Researching
Read about Curtis's latest research project...
· Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme, Caliber (2021-2022): trade model analysis incorporating risk of invasive plant pests and pathogens; farm level economic decision model to use next generation sequencing for virus detection.
· Defra Shared Outcomes Fund: Trees Outside Woodlands (2022 – 2023): an economic cost assessment of tree establishment trials in urban and agricultural landscapes across five local authorities.
· Economic cost of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) outbreaks (2022): assessment of economic impacts of recent avian influenza outbreak.
· EU China SAFE (2021 – 2022): trade impact assessment of safe versus contaminated meat products; stakeholder perceptions of a virtual EU-China virtual laboratory.
· Land 360 (2022): economic modelling of farm-level land use options, including arable crops, dedicated energy crops, woodland creation, and biodiversity improvement.
· Defra Future Proofing Plant Health (2021 – 2023): web-based tool to assess economically optimal control strategies for oak processionary moth (OPM).
Writing
Latest Papers and Articles
McKnight, C., Qiu, F., Luckert, M., & Hauer, G. (2021). Prices for a second-generation biofuel industry in Canada: Market linkages between Canadian wheat and US energy and agricultural commodities. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, 69(3), 337-351. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/cjag.12295
McKnight, C., Qiu, F., Luckert, M., & Hauer, G. (2022). Price volatility spillovers between Canadian and US, agricultural and fuel markets. Biofuels, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1080/17597269.2022.2116770
Attending or speaking at
Events past and future
Fera Science Symposium 2021 – “An Economics Perspective of Natural Capital & Soil”
FERA Science Symposium 2022 – “Monetizing Biodiversity and Carbon: Implications for land use change”
Services
Curtis and their team work with customers to deliver the following services within Fera...
Remote Sensing & Mapping
If you need to survey an area of land for development, crop or vegetation monitoring, land condition assessment or any other spatial or mapping study – you can save considerable time, money & resources with Fera’s Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) services.
Economics
We help societies to become more resilient or achieve the three pillars of sustainability through combining bottom and top-down decision making approaches under rapid socio-economic changes. Fera can help you to understand the likely impacts and cost-effectiveness of your decisions and actions, so you can make well-informed choices on how to deploy the economic resources available.
Environmental Planning & Policy
Fera is in a unique position to combine academic research, big data, forecasting models and information from a host of sources to inform practical environmental solutions and policy decisions across the public and private sector.
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