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The goal of the Environmental Economics Research Hub is to address Australia’s major environmental management challenges with integrated economic research that provides immediate and continuing policy impacts. It brings together leading environmental economists, scientists, educators and policy makers to face the challenges of sustainable water use, soil loss and salinity, biodiversity loss and adaptation to climate change. The Hub’s integrated research, modelling and capacity-building encompasses the establishment of markets to achieve environmental goals, environmental valuation and the assessment and development of government intervention in environmental management. It will provide end users with the tools, understanding and framework to promote environmental sustainability in Australia.
The Environmental Economics Research Hub is based at the Crawford School of Economics and Government under the Direction of Professor Jeff Bennett.
Funding for the Hub is provided by the Department of Environment and Water Resources under the Commonwealth Environment Research Facility.
Themes and Projects.
The Hub comprises numerous research projects addressing four key themes, each led by one of Australia’s top environmental economists:
| A. Establishing viable markets to achieve environmental goals |  |
| Project Title | Description |
|---|---|
Consumption-based water pricing and price elasticities
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Research project 1: Prof Quentin Grafton, ANU Using daily water consumption data and causal variables, models will be developed to evaluate various consumption-based pricing scenarios on short and long-term urban water consumption. (more information) |
| Economically efficient strategies for the conservation of Australian biodiversity | Research project 3: Dr Michael Ward, ANU Development of a long-term ecological impact model, taking into account very fine-grained ecological data. (more information) |
| Designing metric assessments for biodiversity tenders | Research project 4: Prof John Rolfe, CQU Develop a non-market valuation study to assess community values for specific biometric components, allowing community weights for each component to be included in biometrics. (more information) |
| B. Climate change analysis | |
| Project Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Adaptation and economic responses to climate change | Research project 10: Dr Frank Jotzo, ANU Analyse economic system responses to climate change, identify options for adaptation, and assess transferability of Australian approaches to the Asia Pacific region. (more information) |
| Improving Australia’s energy efficiency through faster development and adoption of technologies | Research project 11: Dr Jack Pezzey, ANU Theoretical and econometric study of Australian energy prices and consumption data to estimate short and long-run elasticities and the extent of induced innovation in efficiency. (more information) |
| Socio-economics of on-farm renewable energy | Research project 12: Prof Tor Hundloe, Griffith U Identify economic and environmental costs and benefits with the utilisation of biomass, in particular in the dairy and corn industries, to produce electricity by cogeneration and distil ethanol. (more information) |
| C. Advancing Australia’s capability for social and economic analysis of environmental issues at the regional scale | |
| Project Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Designing marine reserves for biodiversity and sustainable fisheries | Research project 5: Professor Quentin Grafton, ANU Examination of the theory and practical implication of combining marine reserves with fisheries management tools (more information) |
| Salinity, uncertainty and property rights | Research project 9: Prof Kevin Fox, UNSW Assessment of the impacts of uncertainty on decisions regarding incentive schemes for salinity abatement. (more information) |
| Designing environmental policy for Australia from an economic and social perspective | Research project 13: Dr Regina Betz, UNSW Develop environmental policy options that deliver efficient, effective and operational outcomes taking imperfect information, uncertainty, transaction cost, complex property rights situations, imperfect competition as well as social and behavioural aspects into account. (more information) |
| The benefits and costs of biosecurity | Research project 14: Dr Tom Kompas, ANU An economic evaluation of measures to protecting Australia’s environment from imported pests and diseases. (more information) |
| D. Valuing environmental goods and services | |
| Project Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Estimating protection values at general and case study levels | Research project 2: Prof John Rolfe, CQU Testing different approaches to specifying environmental benefits for specific protection actions in forms that are useful to policy makers. (more information) |
| Environmental values and valuation over time | Research project 6: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU Analyse changes in environmental preferences in the Australian community over time using quantitative and qualitative methods. (more information) |
| Community Values for Catchment Management | Research project 7: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU Non-market valuation techniques employed to aid the development of efficient natural resource management policies. (more information) |
| Divergence between community and expert valuation of ecosystems | Research project 8: Prof Michael Burton, UWA Evaluate differences between public and scientific values for aspects of an ecological system and assess how much public values are mutable in the face of increased information. (more information) |
| E. Emerging Research and other Projects | |
| Project Title | Description |
|---|---|
| Household Preferences for the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in Australia | Project leader: Sonia Akter, ANU The project aims to investigate the role that uncertainty plays in determining household willingness to pay for climate change policy in Australia. (more information) |
| Project Title | Description |
| Learning from the Irrational: A study of Environmental Preferences | Project leader: Dr. Ralf Steinhauser, ANU Empirical examination of peoples preferences for environmental goods or services and explanation of possibly existing non-rational patterns. (more information) |
| Project Title | Description |
| Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Agricultural Sector | Project leader: Dr. Emma Aisbett, ANU This project looks at how functioning ecosystems in the vicinity of agricultural production plots can provide a range of ecosystems goods and services that act as implicit inputs to agricultural commodity production. (more information) |
Emission Trading Design and Profit-Neutral Allocations |
29 August 2008 |
| EU agricultural policy change: effects on risk preferences of heterogeneous farms Celine Nauges |
1 April 2008 |
| Data collection in less developed countries (household water use) Celine Nauges |
3 April 2008 |
Is Australia on a Sustainability Path? Interpreting the Clues |
10 April 2008 |
| 2009 Environmental Economics Research Hub Workshop | 11 February 2009 |
| 2008 Annual Workshop | 20 May 2008 |
| Choice Modelling Workshop | 1-2 May 2008 |
Taking the Precautionary Principle Seriously |
15 April 2008 |
| International linking of emissions trading | 15 April 2008 |
| Benefit Transfer Workshop | 22 November 2007 |
| Auctioning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Permits | 28 November 2007 |
| Auctioning Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Permits | 29 November 2007 |
Environmental Economics Research Hub Research Reports
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Akter, S., Bennett J., Estimating non-market values under scenario and policy ambiguity: the case of climate change mitigation in Australia, EERH Research Report No.32, (2009)
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Buckman, G., Diesendorf, M., The Future of Renewable Electricity in Australia, EERH Research Report No.30, (2009)
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Betz, R., Seifert, S., Cramton, P., and Kerr, S., Auctioning Greenhouse Gas Emissions Permits in Australia, EERH Research Report No.29, (2009)
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Betz, R., Sanderson, T., and Sanderson, T., In or Out: Efficient inclusion of installations in an Emissions Trading Scheme?, EERH Research Report No.28, (2009)
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Grafton, Q., Akter, S., and Kompas, T., Guide to the Ex-Ante Socio-Economic Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas, EERH Research Report No.27, (2009)
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Akter, S., Grafton, Q., Environmental value transfer and species conservation, EERH Research Report No.26, (2009)
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Yamazaki, S., Grafton, Q., and Kompas, T., Non-Market Values and Optimal Marine Reserve Switching, EERH Research Report No.25, (2009)
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Pezzey, C.V, J., Mazouz, S., and Jotzo, F., The logic of collective action and Australia’s Climate Policy, EERH Research Report No.24, (2009)
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Grafton, Q., Kompas, T., To, H., and Ward, M., Residential Water Consumption:
A Cross Country Analysis, EERH Research Report No.23, (2009)
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Grafton, Q., Kompas, T., Cod today and none tomorrow:
The Economic Value of a Marine Reserve, EERH Research Report No.22, (2009)
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Mazur, K., Bennett, J., Location differences in communities’ preferences for environmental improvements in selected NSW catchments: A Choice Modelling approach, EERH Research Report No.21, (2009)
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Stern, D.I., Modelling the Global Diffusion of Energy Efficiency and Low Carbon Technology, EERH Research Report No.20, (2009)
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Akter, S., and Bennett J., Household perceptions of climate change and preferences for mitigation action: the case of the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme in Australia, EERH Research Report No.19, (2009)
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Windle, J., Rolfe, J., and Brouwer, R., Public values for improved water security for domestic and environmental use, EERH Research Report No.18, (2009)
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Kragt, M.E. and Bennett J., What’s appropriate?
Investigating the Effects of Attribute Framing and Changing Cost Levels in Choice Experiments, EERH Research Report No.17, (2009)
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Kragt, M.E. and Bennett J., Using Choice Experiments to value River and Estuary Health in Tasmania with Individual Preference Heterogeneity, EERH Research Report No.16, (2009)
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Kragt, M.E. and Bennett J., Integrated Hydro-Economic Modelling:
Challenges and Experiences in an Australian Catchment, EERH Research Report No.15, (2009)
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Jotzo, F., and Betz R., Linking the Australian Emissions Trading Scheme, EERH Research Report No.14, (2009)
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Mazur, K., Bennett, J., A Choice Modelling Survey of Community Attitudes to Improvements in Environmental Quality in NSW Catchments, EERH Research Report No.13, (2009)
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Wang, X., Rolfe, J., Incorporating issues of risk and uncertainty into Choice Modelling experiments, EERH Research Report No.12, (2009)
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Jotzo, F., Climate Change Economics and Policy in the Asia Pacific, EERH Research Report No.11, (2008)
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Kragt, M.E. and Bennett J., Designing Choice Experiments to Test for Anchoring and Framing Effects, EERH Research Report No.10, (2008)
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King H., The challenges of finding efficient policy measures to reduce Australia’s agricultural Greenhouse gas emissions, EERH Research Reports No 9, (2008)
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Kragt M., and Bennett J., Developing a questionnaire for valuing changes in Natural Resource Management in the George Catchment, Tasmania, EERH Research Reports No 8, (2008)
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Rolfe, J., and Wang, X., Exploring Scope and Scale Issues in Choice Modelling Design, EERH Research Reports No 7, (2008)
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Scheufele, G., and Bennett, J., Environmental value and valuation over time, EERH Research Reports No 6, (2008)
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Burke, P., Economic Growth and Pollution in the long run: the case of Carbon Dioxide, EERH Research Reports No 5, (2008)
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Lee, L.Y.T. and Ancev T., Taking Stock: Seventeen Years after the Murray-Darling Basin Agreement, EERH Research Reports No 4, (2008)
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Rolfe, J., Windle, J., and Bennett J., Designing choice experiments to incorporate tests for geographic scale and scope differences, EERH Research Reports No 3 (2008)
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Mazur, K., Bennett, J., Using focus groups to design a choice modelling questionnaire for estimating natural resource management benefits in NSW, EERH Research Reports No 2, (2008)
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Mazur, K., Bennett, J., Choice modelling in the development of natural resource management strategies in NSW, EERH Research Reports No 1, (2008)
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