Joukje de Vries

Joukje is an expert in the valuation of external environmental effects at CE Delft in the Netherlands. She is one of the main contributors to the Environmental Prices Handbook, a widely used handbook in which environmental prices for over 3,000 pollutants were established. At CE Delft, she works on developing and updating the methodology behind the Environmental Prices Handbook, as well as on the application in various sectors. As senior researcher economics, she has used environmental pricing to calculate external effects of e.g. various food products. Application of monetising the environmental effects in the health sector is fairly new, although she has contributed to studies on monetising the LCA-results of reusable drapes and gowns in the OR, and on monetising the health benefits of increasing vegetable consumption in the Netherlands. Joukje is motivated to contribute further to bringing sustainability into the business case of healthcare innovations.