Professor:
Field of work:  Environmental and natural resource economics,
with applications to forests

Research interests:
• The economic value of environmental and natural resources
  – applications to e.g. different types of
  outdoor recreation and biological diversity
• Cost effectiveness in nature conservation
• Environmental policy
• Bioeconomics
• Multiple uses of forests

Teaching
• Courses in microeconomics, environmental and natural resource
  economics with extensions
• Supervision of postgraduate and undergraduate students
• Participation in evaluation committees
• External examination (Opponent)

Selected Scientific Publications
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.

Ericsson, G., Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2000. Selective versus random moose harvesting: Does it pay to be a prudent predator? Journal of Bioeconomics 2:2, pp. 117-132.

Gong, P., Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2001. Multiple-use forest planning techniques: A synthesising analysis. Studia Forestalia Suecica No 212, pp. 1-27.

Bostedt, G., Parks, P.J. & Boman, M. 2003.Integrated natural resource management in northern Sweden: An application to forestry and reindeer husbandry. Land Economics 79(2), pp. 149-159.

Boman, M., Bostedt, G. & Persson, J. 2003. The bioeconomics of the spatial distribution of an endangered species: The case of the Swedish wolf population. Journal of Bioeconomics 5, pp. 55-74.

Huhtala, A., Toppinen, A. & Boman, M. 2003. When the theory is not enough – Valuation of forest resources with “efficiency” prices in practice. Journal of Forest Economics 9, pp. 205-222.

Gong, P., Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2005. Non-timber benefits, price  uncertainty and optimal harvest of an even-aged stand. Forest Policy and Economics 7, pp. 283-295.

Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2005. Trade-offs in forest utilization from a sustainability perspective. Journal of Sustainable Forestry 21(2/3), pp. 131-144.

Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2008. A note on attitudes and knowledge concerning environmental issues in Sweden. Journal of Environmental Management 86, pp. 575-579.

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.

Kindstrand, C., Norman, J., Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2008. Attitudes towards various forest functions: a comparison between private forest owners and forest officers. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 23, pp. 133-136.

Perhans, K., Kindstrand, C., Boman, M., Boberg Djupström, L., Gustafsson, L., Mattsson, L., Schroeder, L.M., Weslien, J. & Wikberg, S. 2008. Conservation goals and the relative importance of costs and benefits in reserve selection. Conservation Biology 22(5), pp. 1331–1339.

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.

Wikberg, S., Perhans, K., Kindstrand, C., Boman, M., Boberg Djupström, L., Gustafsson, L., Mattsson, L., Schroeder, L. M., Weslien, J. 2009. Cost-effectiveness of conservation strategies implemented in boreal forests: the area selection process. Biological Conservation 142, pp. 614-624.

Selected Popular Science Publications
Boman, M., Kriström, B. & Mattsson, L. 2000. Skogen och miljöekonomin. Ekonomisk Debatt 2, pp.
159-168 (Published by the Swedish Economic Association).

Boman, M. 2003. Vilt och välfärdsekonomi. Kungl. Skogs- och  Lantbruksakademiens Tidskrift Årg 142, Nr 2, pp. 35-39.

Boman, M. & Mattsson, L. 2006. Ädellövskogen och ekonomin.  Kungl. Skogs- och Lantbruksakademiens Tidskrift Årg 145, Nr 5, pp. 15-19.
 
Boman, M. & Mattsson L. 2007. Hur värderar svenskarna riksdagens miljökvalitetsmål? Miljötrender 1, pp. 12-13.

Mattsson L., Boman M., Ericsson G. 2008. 3 130 000 000 - Så mycket är jakten värd.
Svensk Jakt 5, pp. 74-77.

Links
The research program "Outdoor recreation in change"
The research program "Adaptive management of fish and wildlife populations"
The research program "Sustainable management in broadleaved forests"