Professor Deborah Roberts

Chair in Real Estate

Personal Details Telephone: +44 (0)1224 273690 Email: deb.roberts@abdn.ac.uk

Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Roberts, DJ., Majewski, E. & Sulewski, P. (in press). 'Farm household interactions with local economies: A comparison of two EU case study areas'. Land Use Policy, vol 31, pp. 156-165.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.09.012
• Liu, N. & Roberts, DJ. (in press). 'Counter urbanisation, planning and house prices: An analysis of the Aberdeen Housing Market Area, 1984 – 2010'. Town Planning Review.
• Pouliakas, K., Roberts, DJ., Balamou, E. & Psaltopoulos, D. (in press). 'Modelling the Effects of Immigration on Regional Economic Performance and Wage Distribution: A Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) Analysis of Three European Union Regions'. Regional Studies.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/00343404.2011.653332
• Devaney, S. & Roberts, DJ. (2012). 'Who gets the jobs?: Factors influencing the employability of property and construction graduates in the UK'. Construction, Management and Economics, vol 30, no. 3, pp. 233-246.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/01446193.2011.654233
• Phimister, EC. & Roberts, DJ. (2012). 'The role of ownership in determining the rural economic benefits of on-shore wind farms'. Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol 63, no. 2, pp. 331-360.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1477-9552.2012.00336.x
• Roberts, DJ. & Liu, N. (2012). 'Do incomers pay more for rural housing?'. Environment and Planning A, vol 44, no. 8, pp. 1986-2005.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/a44495
• Laing, R., Buda, G., Devaney, S. & Roberts, DJ. (2011). 'Built Environment Higher Education in Scotland: Pressures, Challenges and Change in Uncertain Times'. CEBE Transactions, vol 8, no. 1, pp. 41-59.
• Johnson, TJ., Roberts, DJ. & Wojan, TR. (2010). 'Model-based Evaluation of Rural Development Policies'. EuroChoices, vol 9, no. 1, pp. 30-36.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1111/j.1746-692X.2010.00152.x
• Roberts, DJ. & Newlands, DA. (2010). 'The economic integration of new sectors in rural areas: A case study of the Shetland economy'. Environment and Planning A, vol 42, no. 11, pp. 2687-2704.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/a43119
• Courtney, P., Hill, G. & Roberts, DJ. (2006). 'The role of the natural heritage in rural development: An empirical anaysis of economic linkages in Scotland'. Journal of Rural Studies, vol 22, pp. 469-484.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2006.02.003
• Phimister, EC. & Roberts, DJ. (2006). 'The Effect of Off-farm Work on the Intensity of Agricultural Production'. Environmental and Resource Economics, vol 34, no. 4, pp. 493-515.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1007/s10640-006-0012-1
• Roberts, DJ. (2005). 'The role of households in sustaining rural economies: A structural path analysis'. European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol 32, no. 3, pp. 393-420.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/eurrag/jbi014
• Phimister, EC., Roberts, DJ. & Gilbert, A. (2004). 'The Dynamics of Farm Incomes in Scotland: Panel data analysis using the Farm Accounts Survey'. Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol 55, no. 2, pp. 197-220.
• Slee, RW., Roberts, DJ. & Evans, R. (2004). 'Forestry in the rural economy: A new approach to assessing the impact of forestry on rural development'. Forestry the Journal of the Society of Foresters of Great Britain, vol 77, no. 5, pp. 441-453.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/forestry/77.5.441
• Roberts, DJ. (2003). 'The economic base of rural areas: A SAM-based analysis of the Western Isles, 1997'. Environment and Planning A, vol 35, no. 1, pp. 95-111.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1068/a3580
• Roberts, DJ. & Thomson, KJ. (2003). 'Sources of Structural Change in Peripheral Rural Areas: The Case of the Western Isles, 1988/89 to 1997'. Regional Studies, vol 37, no. 1, pp. 61-70.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1080/0034340022000033402
• Eiser, D. & Roberts, DJ. (2002). 'The Employment and Output effects of changing patterns of Afforestation in Scotland'. Journal of Agricultural Economics, vol 53, no. 1, pp. 65-81.
• Gray, D., Farrington, JH., Shaw, J., Martin, S. & Roberts, DJ. (2001). 'Car dependence in rural Scotland: transport policy, devolution and the impact of the fuel duty escalator'. Journal of Rural Studies, vol 17, pp. 113-125.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1016/S0743-0167(00)00035-8

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

• Roberts, DJ. (2009). 'Frontiers in Resource and Rural Economics'. European Review of Agricultural Economics, vol 36, no. 3, pp. 460-462.
  [Online] DOI: doi:10.1093/erae/jbp036

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Roberts, DJ., Dax, T. & Machold, I. (2005). 'The CAP, rural development policy and territorial cohesion: Findings from an EU-wide anaysis'. in: Assessing Rural Development Policies of the Common Agricultural Policy. Assessing Rural Development Policies of the Common Agricultural Policy.

Conference Proceedings

• Phimister, EC. & Roberts, DJ. 'The role of ownership in determining the rural economic benefits of on-shore wind farms: A CGE analysis'. in: 2011 Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Warwick, UK.. Agricultural Economics Society Conference, Warwick, United Kingdom, 18 April.
• Devaney, S. & Roberts, DJ. 'Who gets the jobs?: Factors influencing the employability of property and construction graduates in the UK'. in: COBRA 2011: RICS International Research Conference, Salford, UK.. RICS International Research Conference, Salford, United Kingdom, 12-13 September.
• Psaltopoulos, D., Phimister, EC., Ratinger, T., Roberts, DJ., Skuras, D., Espinosa, M., Balamou, E., Gomez Y Paloma, S., Santini, F. & Mary, S. 'An Ex-Ante Rural/Urban Analysis of CAP'. in: EAAE 2011 Congress, Zurich. The XIIIth Congress of the European Association of Agricultural Economists, EAAE, Zurich, Switzerland, 30-2 September.
• Balamou, E., Pouliakas, K., Roberts, DJ. & Psaltopoulos, D. (2009). 'Modelling the rural-urban effects of a reduction in farm support: A bi-regional CGE analysis'. in: AES Annual Conference proceedings. pp. 1-18, 83rd Annual Conference of the Agricultural Economics Society, Dublin, Ireland, 30-2 April.

Books and Reports

Books

• Shucksmith, M., Thomson, K. & Roberts, DJ. (2005). 'The CAP and the Regions: The Territorial Impact of the Common Agricultural Policy'. Unknown Publisher, CABI Publishing.

Commissioned Reports

• Roberts, DJ., Devaney, SP., Findlay, N., Laing, R. & Buda, G. (2009). 'The Future of Built Environment Higher Education in Scotland: Final Report'. Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS), London, United Kingdom.
• Roberts, DJ., MacDonald, D., Kampas, T., Potts, J., Shannon, P. & Barroclough, F. (2002). 'Nature Conservation Designation and Land Values'. Unknown Publisher, The Scottish Office Central Research Unit, The Stationary Office.
• McDonald, S., Roberts, DJ. & Kay, A. (2001). 'The Economy-wide Impacts of the Foot and Mouth Outbreak in Scotland'. Unknown Publisher, Scottish Economic Policy Network (Scotecon.net).

Other Contributions

• Roberts, DJ. & Liu, N. (2009). 'Deliverable n.4.1 CAP-IRE project: Background analysis on chain effects'.
• Pouliakas, K., Phimister, EC., Roberts, DJ., Thomson, K., balamou, Psaltopoulos, D., Hyytia, NKJ. & galassi, F. (2008). 'Territorial Aspects of Enterprise Development in Remote Rural Areas: Application and results of CGE analyses (comparative analysis)'.
• Phimister, EC., Roberts, DJ., Ververidis, K. & Young-Smith, L. (2007). 'Territorial aspects of Enterprise Development in Remote Rural Areas: Design of CGE Model'.

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