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0000-0001-6847-4817
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University of Western Australia
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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Applied Economics | Applied Economics not elsewhere classified | Environment and Resource Economics | Ecological Economics | Natural Resource Management | Marketing Management (incl. Strategy and Customer Relations) | Decision Making
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Rehabilitation of Degraded Mining Environments | Information Services not elsewhere classified | Ecological Economics | Preference, Behaviour and Welfare | Behaviour and Health | Expanding Knowledge in the Agricultural and Veterinary Sciences |
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Publications
Mine site rehabilitation conditions in Western Australia
Publisher: Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth
Date: 2019
Predicting the effectiveness of community anti-poaching patrols for conserving threatened wildlife in the Lao PDR
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 15-12-2020
Identifying industry practice, barriers, and opportunities for mine rehabilitation completion criteria in western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Improving productivity reduces methane intensity but increases the net emissions of sheepmeat and wool enterprises
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2022
DOI: 10.1016/J.ANIMAL.2022.100490
Abstract: Greenhouse gas emissions from Western Australia's sheep flock account for 26% of the state's agricultural emissions, principally as a result of enteric methane emissions. A decrease in emissions between 2005 and 2019 can be partly explained by a 44% drop in sheep numbers over that period, but less is known about potential changes in the methane intensity of sheepmeat and wool kg CO
An integrated approach to linking economic valuation and catchment modelling
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2011
Designer policy for carbon and biodiversity co-benefits under global change
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 30-11-2015
DOI: 10.1038/NCLIMATE2874
Evidence of increased economic benefits from shark-diving tourism in the Maldives
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
How shark conservation in the Maldives affects demand for dive tourism
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2018
Valuing non-market economic impacts from natural hazards
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 22-08-2019
Modellers' roles in structuring integrative research projects
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 2013
The Effects of Changing Cost Vectors on Choices and Scale Heterogeneity
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 10-08-2012
Concern about threatened species and ecosystem disservices underpin public willingness to pay for ecological restoration
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 09-11-2018
DOI: 10.1111/REC.12895
Greenhouse gas abatement costs are heterogeneous between Australian grain farms
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 19-07-2017
Black soldier fly fertilisers by bioconversion of livestock waste
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2023
Stated and Inferred Attribute Attendance Models: A Comparison with Environmental Choice Experiments
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 19-08-2013
Assessing costs of soil carbon sequestration by crop-livestock farmers in Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2012
Consumers' willingness to pay for renewable energy: A meta-regression analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
Recreational fishers’ support for no-take marine reserves is high and increases with reserve age
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2018
Estimating the economic benefits from weather radar investments in the Western Australian wheatbelt
Publisher: The University of Western Australia
Date: 2019
Accounting for Nonmarket Impacts in a Benefit-Cost Analysis of Underground Coal Mining in New South Wales, Australia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 08-05-2012
Abstract: Strategic inquiries into coal mining by Australian Governments advocate increased use of comprehensive benefit cost analyses and nonmarket valuation studies when assessing in idual project proposals. The study reported in this paper addresses these Government concerns, by integrating results of a choice experiment into a benefit cost analysis undertaken for a Colliery in the Southern Coalfield of New South Wales, Australia. Results of the study were used to aid the State government in evaluating proposals for continued underground coal mining. We show that impacts of mine subsidence on streams, sw s, and Aboriginal sites negatively affect community wellbeing. Social welfare increases with the length of time that the mine provides direct employment. We demonstrate how implicit price estimates from the choice experiment can be incorporated into a benefit cost analysis of continued mining. Benefit cost analyses were carried out for a range of policy scenarios—including policies that would restrict mining activities at the Colliery and protect environmental and cultural features in the Southern Coalfield. Notwithstanding the environmental impacts generated by mining operations, continued mining is shown to be a more economically efficient course of action.
Public willingness to pay for carbon farming and its co-benefits
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2016
Nature-Based Solutions as Building Blocks for the Transition towards Sustainable Climate-Resilient Food Systems
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 02-03-2023
DOI: 10.3390/SU15054475
Abstract: Food systems—encompassing food production, transportation, processing and consumption, including food losses and waste—are currently not delivering what is expected or needed to ensure their full contribution to societal well-being and ecological sustainability. In this paper, we hypothesize that nature-based solutions (NBS solutions that are inspired by, supported by, or copied from nature) can overcome system challenges related to the functioning of the biosphere, society, or economy (including governance arrangements), and support a transition to sustainable climate-resilient food systems. We develop a conceptual framework to assess NBS contributions to such transitions. Three types of NBS are evaluated: intrinsic NBS which make use of existing ecosystems hybrid NBS which manage and adapt ecosystems and inspired NBS which consist of newly constructed ecosystems. We show that inspired NBS in particular will increase opportunities to achieve sustainable development in food systems. NBS can facilitate the much-needed transition to a different way of using our natural resources to reach the SDGs by 2030. We identify the knowledge gaps that impede the development of NBS to support a transition towards sustainable, climate-resilient food systems.
Shark-diving tourism as a financing mechanism for shark conservation strategies in Malaysia
Publisher: PeerJ
Date: 21-12-2017
DOI: 10.7287/PEERJ.PREPRINTS.3481V1
Abstract: This study estimated the economic value of the shark- ing industry in Semporna, the most popular ing destination of Malaysia, by surveying the expenditures of ing tourists and e operators through the region. A willingness-to-pay survey was also used to estimate the potential of the industry as a financing mechanism for enforcement and management of a hypothetical shark sanctuary. The study showed that in 2012, shark- ing tourism provided direct revenues in excess of USD 9.8 million to the Semporna district. These economic benefits had a flow-on effect, generating more than USD 2 million in direct taxes to the government and USD 1.4 million in salaries to the community. A contingent valuation analysis indicated that implementation of a fee paid by ers could generate over USD 2 million for management and enforcement of a shark sanctuary each year. These findings suggest that shark ing is an important contributor to the economy of the Semporna region that could be used as a mechanism to assist financial resourcing for management and conservation strategies.
Why are Fishers not Enforcing Their Marine User Rights?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 31-12-2017
Scale heterogeneity and its implications for discrete choice analysis
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Date: 07-2019
DOI: 10.3368/LE.95.3.353
A survey dataset to identify industry practices and challenges for mine rehabilitation completion criteria in Western Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2021
Combining spatial ecology and economics to incorporate recreational fishing into marine spatial planning
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 20-12-2022
Abstract: Many researchers have pointed to coastal environments and their use for energy production, aquaculture, and conservation as key to solving profound challenges facing humanity. Navigating this transition in ocean space necessitates tools to quantify impacts on displaced marine users, including recreational fishers. In this study, we present a novel method combining spatial ecological models of recreational catch with fine-scale random utility models of site choice to predict the impacts of site closures on recreational fishing experiences (fisher welfare). We demonstrate our approach by modelling data from over 10 000 fishing trips to fine-scale sites across 1500 km of coastline in the south-west of Australia and simulating the effects of no-take marine reserves recently implemented in the Australian Marine Parks. The results show how the combination of random utility modelling with spatial ecological methods provides a powerful tool for investigating recreational fisheries as joint social-ecological systems and incorporating recreational fishing into marine spatial planning.
Handbook of Cumulative Impact Assessment Edited by BlakleyJill A.E. and Daniel M.Franks. Research Handbooks on Impact Assessment Series. Published by Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, UK/Northampto
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 18-04-2022
Improving interdisciplinary collaboration in bio-economic modelling for agricultural systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
Non-market valuation: Usage and impacts in environmental policy and management in Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 05-11-2015
Public willingness to pay for carbon farming and its co-benefits (vol 126, pg 125, 2016)
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 20-03-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S13593-023-00880-1
Abstract: It is difficult to identify farm management practices that consistently provide greenhouse gas (GHG) abatement at different locations because effectiveness of practices is greatly influenced by climates and soils. We address this knowledge gap by identifying practices that provide abatement in eight case studies located across erse conditions in Australian’s grain-producing areas. The case studies focus on soil-based emissions of nitrous oxide (N 2 O) and changes in soil organic carbon (SOC), simulated over 100 years for 15 cropping management scenarios. Average changes in the balance of GHG from both N 2 O emissions and SOC sequestration (∆GHG balance) and gross margins compared to a high emissions baseline were determined over 25 and 100 simulated years. Because scenarios providing the greatest abatement varied across in idual case studies, we aggregated the data over all case studies and analysed them with a random forest data mining approach to build models for predicting ∆GHG balance. Increased cropping intensity, achieved by including cover crops, additional grains crops, or crops with larger biomass in the rotation, was the leading predictor of ∆GHG balance across the scenarios and sites. Abatement from increased cropping intensity averaged 774 CO 2 -e ha −1 year −1 (25 years) and 444 kg CO 2 -e ha −1 year −1 (100 years) compared to the baseline, with reduced emissions from SOC sequestration offsetting increased N 2 O emissions for both time frames. Increased cropping intensity decreased average gross margins, indicating that a carbon price would likely be needed to maximise GHG abatement from this management. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the random forest approach has been applied to assess management practice effectiveness for achieving GHG abatement over erse environments. Doing so provided us with more general information about practices that provide GHG abatement than would have come from qualitative comparison of the variable results from the case studies.
Mainstreaming of ecosystem services as a rationale for ecological restoration in Australia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2019
Farmer interest in joint venture structures in the Australian broadacre grains sector
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 24-10-2018
DOI: 10.1002/AGR.21525
Humans as hosts, vectors and agents of environmental change
Publisher: The University of Western Australia
Date: 2020
Attribute Framing in Choice Experiments: How Do Attribute Level Descriptions Affect Value Estimates?
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-05-2011
Effects of Great Barrier Reef degradation on recreational reef-trip demand: a contingent behaviour approach
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2009
Evaluating an interdisciplinary research project: Lessons learned for organisations, researchers and funders
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2016
Using choice experiments to value catchment and estuary health in Tasmania with individual preference heterogeneity*
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-2011
Greenhouse gas abatement on southern Australian grains farms: Biophysical potential and financial impacts
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Information acquisition, learning and the adoption of conservation agriculture in Malawi: A discrete-time duration analysis
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2018
To Bait or Not to Bait
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Farmers’ interest in crowdfunding to finance climate change mitigation practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2021
Estimating the non-market benefits of environmental flows in the Hawkesbury-Nepean River
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 11-09-2015
Carbon farming economics: What have we learned?
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
DOI: 10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2016.02.008
Abstract: This study reviewed 62 economic analyses published between 1995 and 2014 on the economic impacts of policies that incentivise agricultural greenhouse (GHG) mitigation. Typically, biophysical models are used to evaluate the changes in GHG mitigation that result from landholders changing their farm and land management practices. The estimated results of biophysical models are then integrated with economic models to simulate the costs of different policy scenarios to production systems. The cost estimates vary between $3 and $130/t CO2 equivalent in 2012 US dollars, depending on the mitigation strategies, spatial locations, and policy scenarios considered. Most studies assessed the consequences of a single, rather than multiple, mitigation strategies, and few considered the co-benefits of carbon farming. These omissions could challenge the reality and robustness of the studies' results. One of the biggest challenges facing agricultural economists is to assess the full extent of the trade-offs involved in carbon farming. We need to improve our biophysical knowledge about carbon farming co-benefits, predict the economic impacts of employing multiple strategies and policy incentives, and develop the associated integrated models, to estimate the full costs and benefits of agricultural GHG mitigation to farmers and the rest of society.
The response of broadacre mixed crop-livestock farmers to agricultural greenhouse gas abatement incentives
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 02-2018
Motivations and barriers for Western Australian broad-acre farmers to adopt carbon farming
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2017
Farmers' use of weather & forecast information in the Western Australian wheatbelt
Publisher: The University of Western Australia
Date: 2018
Dynamics and the economics of carbon sequestration: common oversights and their implications
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 27-04-2017
Determining spatial patterns in recreational catch data: a comparison of generalized additive mixed models and boosted regression trees
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 15-07-2019
Abstract: Marine recreational fisheries (MRFs) are often highly spatially heterogenous, with effort concentrated into small areas, and fisheries spanning large environmental gradients. However, spatially resolved catch data is rarely collected in MRFs, preventing the study of spatial heterogeneity in catch. This study uses recreational catch reported in 10 × 10 nm blocks across eight degrees of latitude in Western Australia to map spatial predictions of the probability of a recreational catch on an average trip for two key species: West Australian dhufish (Glaucosoma hebraicum) and snapper (Chrysophrys auratus). Two spatial modelling techniques are compared for the analysis, generalized additive mixed models (GAMMs) and boosted regression trees (BRTs). We find that BRTs outperform GAMMs, but performance gains are small. We also find marked spatial variations in recreational catch probabilities: high catches of dhufish are found in the north of the study area, and low catches in the Perth Metropolitan area and in the south snapper catches are highest in the north and low in the south. These patterns are used to identify important spatial processes in the fishery. The analysis also suggests that modelling approach (GAMMs or BRTs) has only a minor effect on outcomes of spatial catch analysis in MRFs.
Quantifying ecosystem services trade-offs from agricultural practices
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2014
Marginal abatement costs of greenhouse gas emissions: broadacre farming in the Great Southern Region of Western Australia
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-02-2016
Estimating shadow price for symbiotic nitrogen and technical efficiency for legume-based conservation agriculture in Malawi
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 28-05-2017
Shark-diving tourism as a financing mechanism for shark conservation strategies in Malaysia
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2018
Modelling with stakeholders – Next generation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2016
What farmer types are most likely to adopt joint venture farm business structures?
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 14-08-2019
Climate change reduces the mitigation obtainable from sequestration in an Australian farming system
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 04-09-2019
A framework for developing completion criteria for mine closure and rehabilitation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2020
Accounting for enforcement costs in the spatial allocation of marine zones
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 07-08-2015
DOI: 10.1111/COBI.12358
Abstract: Marine fish stocks are in many cases extracted above sustainable levels, but they may be protected through restricted-use zoning systems. The effectiveness of these systems typically depends on support from coastal fishing communities. High management costs including those of enforcement may, however, deter fishers from supporting marine management. We incorporated enforcement costs into a spatial optimization model that identified how conservation targets can be met while maximizing fishers' revenue. Our model identified the optimal allocation of the study area among different zones: no-take, territorial user rights for fisheries (TURFs), or open access. The analysis demonstrated that enforcing no-take and TURF zones incurs a cost, but results in higher species abundance by preventing poaching and overfishing. We analyzed how different enforcement scenarios affected fishers' revenue. Fisher revenue was approximately 50% higher when territorial user rights were enforced than when they were not. The model preferentially allocated area to the enforced-TURF zone over other zones, demonstrating that the financial benefits of enforcement (derived from higher species abundance) exceeded the costs. These findings were robust to increases in enforcement costs but sensitive to changes in species' market price. We also found that revenue under the existing zoning regime in the study area was 13-30% lower than under an optimal solution. Our results highlight the importance of accounting for both the benefits and costs of enforcement in marine conservation, particularly when incurred by fishers.
What carbon farming activities are farmers likely to adopt? A best–worst scaling survey
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 07-2016
Key Policy Interventions to Limit Infectious Disease Emergence and Spread
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Date: 15-06-2023
DOI: 10.3389/FENVS.2023.1128831
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic provides a salient backdrop to consider what many experts across public health, conservation, and biology have long highlighted: that land use change, environmental degradation, habitat loss, and climate change contribute to outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases. Drawing on literature from across a range of disciplines, we present a conceptual model that shows how human-environment interactions and decisions by citizens, industry, and governments can drive disease emergence and spread. We suggest that local consumer and producer decisions at one location can have ramifications that extend around the world and lead to land use changes in other jurisdictions which could lify or reduce the likelihood of novel disease outbreaks. Moving beyond the immediate health impacts and changes to healthcare systems, we propose that the long-term legacy of COVID-19 could be one that turns global society toward more socially, economically, and environmentally sustainable ways of production, consumption and landscape management through five “Key Policy Interventions.”
Hydro-economic modelling in an uncertain world: Integrating costs and benefits of water quality management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2013
Mapping the food security studies in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: Review of research priorities and gaps
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2020
Using a choice experiment to improve decision support tool design
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 20-02-2014
DOI: 10.1093/AEPP/PPU001
Twinning in cattle: a pathway for reducing the methane intensity of beef
Publisher: CSIRO Publishing
Date: 2023
DOI: 10.1071/AN23088
Examining the relationship between farm size and productive efficiency: a Bayesian directional distance function approach
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 10-01-2019
DOI: 10.1111/AGEC.12480
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