About Me

Group leader in Environmental Economics
Department of Environmental Social Sciences
Environmental Economics cluster (EnvEco)

Research interests

• Environmental and natural resource economics
• Economic valuation of ecosystem services
• Methodological aspects of the stated preference valuation methods
• Sustainable management of water resources
• Risk assessment
  
• Policy instruments for environmental management
• Input-output analysis

Publications

Logar, I., Brouwer, R., Paillex, A. (2019). Do the societal benefits of river restoration outweigh their costs? A cost-benefit analysis. Journal of Environmental Management 232: 1075-1085.

Mattmann, M., Logar, I., Brouwer, R. (2019). Choice certainty, consistency, and monotonicity in discrete choice experiments. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 8(2): 109-127.

Schuwirth, N., Honti, M., Logar, I., Stamm, C. (2018). Multi-criteria decision analysis for integrated water quality assessment and management support. Water Research X 1: 100010. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wroa.2018.100010.

Logar, I., Brouwer, R. (2018). Substitution effects and spatial preference heterogeneity in single- and multiple-site choice experiments. Land Economics 94(2): 302-322.

Logar, I., Brouwer, R. (2017). The effect of risk communication on choice behavior, welfare estimates and choice certainty. Water Resources and Economics 18: 34-50.

Brouwer, R., Logar, I., Sheremet, O. (2017). Choice consistency and preference stability in test-retests of discrete choice experiment and open-ended willingness to pay elicitation formats. Environmental and Resource Economics 68(3): 729-751.

Mattmann, M., Logar, I., Brouwer, R. (2016). Hydropower externalities: A meta-analysis. Energy Economics 57: 66-77.

Tilley, E., Logar, I., Günther, I. (2016). The effect of giving respondents time to think in a choice experiment: A conditional cash transfer program in South Africa. Environment and Development Economics 22(2): 202-227.

van Dijk, D., Siber, R., Brouwer, R., Logar, I., Sanadgol, D. (2016). Valuing water resources in Switzerland using a hedonic price model. Water Resources Research 52(5): 3510-3526.

Mattmann, M., Logar, I., Brouwer, R. (2016). Wind power externalities: A meta-analysis. Ecological Economics 127: 23-36.

Logar, I. (2015). Book review: Robert A. Young and John B. Loomis (2014) Determining the Economic Value of Water: Concepts and Methods (2nd Edition). RFF Press, Routledge, New York, USA. 358 pp. Water Resources and Economics 11: 47-49.

Gsottbauer, E., Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2015). Towards a fair, constructive and consistent criticism of all valuation languages: Comment on Kallis et al. (2013). Ecological Economics, 112: 164-169.

Gsottbauer, E., Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2015). Rejoinder to Kallis et al.'s response to our criticism. Ecological Economics, 118: 285-286.

Logar, I., Brouwer, R., Maurer, M., Ort, C. (2014). Cost-benefit analysis of the Swiss national policy on reducing micropollutants in treated wastewater. Environmental Science & Technology, 48(21): 12500-12508.

Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2014). Economic valuation of preventing beach erosion: comparing existing and non-existing beach markets with stated and revealed preferences. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 3(1): 46-66.

Kreibich, H., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M., Bouwer, L.M., Bubeck, P., Ciavola, P., Green, C., Hallegatte, S., Logar, I., Meyer, V., Schwarze, R., Thieken, A.H. (2014). Costing natural hazards. Nature Climate Change, 4(5): 303-306.

Meyer, V., Schwarze, R., Becker, N., Markantonis, V., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M., Bouwer, L.M., Bubeck, P., Ciavola, P., Genovese, E., Green, C., Hallegatte, S., Kreibich, H., Lequeux, Q., Logar, I., Papyrakis, E., Pfurtscheller, C., Poussin, J., Przyluski, V., Thieken, A.H., Viavattene, C. (2014). Assessing the costs of natural hazards – state of the art and the way forward. In: Quevauviller, P.P. (ed.). Hydrometeorological hazards: interfacing science and policy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, pp. 255-290.

Mihalič, T., Logar, I. (2014). Theoretical and applied approaches for monitoring environmental performance. In: Mihalič, T. Designing models for measuring business performance of hotel companies. Faculty of Economics, Ljubljana, pp. 36-67. [In Slovenian]

Logar, I., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M. (2013). Methods to assess costs of drought damages and policies for drought mitigation and adaptation: Review and recommendations. Water Resources Management, 27(6): 1707-1720.

Logar, I., van den Bergh J.C.J.M. (2013). The impact of peak oil on tourism in Spain: an input-output analysis of price, demand and economy-wide effects. Energy, 54: 155-166.

Meyer, V., Becker, N., Markantonis, V., Schwarze, R., van den Bergh, J.C.J.M., Bouwer, L.M., Bubeck, P., Ciavola, P., Genovese, E., Green, C., Hallegatte, S., Kreibich, H., Lequeux, Q., Logar, I., Papyrakis, E., Pfurtscheller, C., Poussin, J., Przyluski, V., Thieken, A.H., Viavattene, C. (2013). Review article: Assessing the costs of natural hazards - state of the art and knowledge gaps. Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences, 13(5): 1351-1373.

Jakl, Z., Bitunjac, I., Medunić-Orlić, G., Logar, I. (2013). Nautical tourism development in the Lastovo Islands Nature Park. In: Healy, H., Martínez-Alier, J., Temper, L., Walter, M., Gerber, J.-F. (eds.). Ecological economics from the ground up. Routledge, London, pp. 335-365.

Logar, I., van den Bergh J.C.J.M. (2012). Respondent uncertainty in contingent valuation of preventing beach erosion: an analysis with a polychotomous choice question. Journal of Environmental Management, 113: 184-193.

Logar, I. (2010). Sustainable tourism management in Crikvenica, Croatia: An assessment of policy instruments. Tourism Management, 31(1): 125-135.

Supervision of PhD students

2014 - 2017            Matteo Mattmann, Testing choice theory using discrete choice experiments in the                                context of Swiss energy policy (SCCER CREST project), VU University Amsterdam,                                advisor Prof. Roy Brouwer

2015 - to date         Markus Glatt, Preference uncertainty in stated choice experiments: Willingness to                                pay for reducing flood risk, VU University Amsterdam, advisor Prof. Roy Brouwer

Education

2011                      PhD in Ecological Economics, Institute of Environmental Science and Technology,                               Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

2006                      MSc in Ecological Economics and Environmental Management, Institute of                               Environmental Science and Technology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain

2003                      BSc in Economics, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Professional Associations

2016 - to date         Country representative of the European Association of Environmental and                                Resource Economists for Croatia

2014 - to date         Country contact of the European Society for Ecological Economics in Switzerland

2009 - to date         Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists

2007 - to date         Member of the European Society for Ecological Economics

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Projects

A principal objective of the project is to develop a novel theoretical framework that would explain the sources of preference uncertainty in stated choice experiments.

Preference Uncertainty: Willingness to pay for flood risk reduction

This project aims at providing a better insight into the public preferences of the Swiss population for the suggested hydropower expansion.

Social Acceptance of Hydropower

This project aims at closing the knowledge gap on monetary benefits of river rehabilitation by assessing the economic values of improvements in river ecosystem services resulting from river rehabilitation.

Economic Valuation of River Rehabilitation in Switzerland

The main objective of this research is to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of water quality improvement through upgrading of wastewater treatment plants in Switzerland.

Cost-benefit analysis of micropollutant reduction

The main objective is to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of a number of different measures for reducing chemical water pollution in the Mönchaltorfer Aa river basin in the Canton of Zurich.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of water quality improvement measures

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