Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE160101306

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE160101306

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Valuing the non-market benefits of mine site rehabilitation. This project aims to improve decisions about mine site rehabilitation. Mining causes environmental damage, which mine operators are legally required to rehabilitate. Although companies invest considerably in mine site restoration and biodiversity offsets, we don’t know whether their practices match public preferences for rehabilitation outcomes. Filling this knowledge gap is challenging because the benefits of rehabilitation (eg biodiversity) are not traded in markets. This project aims to address these challenges by estimating, in monetary terms, the values provided by mine site restoration. By identifying these values, the project expects to contribute to improving the design of mine rehabilitation standards, and will enable future policy decisions to be more closely aligned with society’s preferences.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-06-2016

End Date: 31-12-2021

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $373,848.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Natural Resource Management | Environment and Resource Economics | Ecological Economics | Applied Economics |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments | Ecological Economics | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare

Other Keywords

Applied Economics | Ecological Economics | Environment and Resource Economics | Natural Resource Management | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments

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