Luca Tacconi BEc (Siena), MCom (UMelb), PhD (UNSW) Associate Professor, Program Director Environmental Management and Development, Crawford School of Economics and Government

Luca Tacconi is Associate Professor in environmental governance and Director of the Environmental Management and Development Program at the Crawford School of Economics and Government.

He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of WWF Australia and a member of the Commission on Environmental, Economics and Social Policy of the World Conservation Union (IUCN).

He has worked on research and development activities funded by the Australian Center for International Agricultural Research, the Australian Agency for International Development, the Department for International Development (UK), the European Commission, the Government of Japan, the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, the United States Agency for International Development, and The World Bank. He has also collaborated with government and non-government organizations such as the Ministry of Forestry of Indonesia, the Ministry of Forestry of Vanuatu, The Nature Conservancy, Transparency International, and the World Wide Fund for Nature.

Prior to his appointment to the ANU, he was senior scientist at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia.

His research focuses on the economic, political, and social factors that drive environmental change – resulting in loss of biodiversity and climate change – and their implications for rural livelihoods and poverty.

Current research projects include:

• A global analysis of the relationship between payments for environmental services and livelihoods
• The governance and economic implications of avoided deforestation activities
  • Project Summary
  • Seminar on ‘Challenges to the national implementation of REDD’

Current PHD Students

• Axelle Boulay

• Noelyn Dano

• Silvia Irawan

• Zahrul Muttaqin

• Helen Suich

A/Prof Tacconi does not currently take on more PhD students

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Environmental governance theory and implementation

State, power, illegality, and corruption

Tacconi, L. (2007). Decentralization, forests and livelihoods: theory and narrative. Global Environmental Change, 17(3-4): 338-348

Cerutti, P. O., and L. Tacconi (2006), Forests, Illegality and Livelihoods in Cameroon Working Paper No 35. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor.

Tacconi, L., K. Obidzinski, J. Smith, Subarudi, I. Suramenggala 2004. ‘Can ‘legalization’ of illegal forest activities reduce illegal logging? Lessons from East Kalimantan’. Journal of Sustainable Forestry, 19(1/2/3): 137-151. Also published in Ravenel, R.M., Granoff, I.M.I., Magee, C.A. (eds). Illegal Logging in the Tropics: Strategies for Cutting Crime. The Haworth Press.

Tacconi, L., K. Obidzinski, F. Agung 2004. Learning Lessons to Promote Certification and Control Illegal Logging in Indonesia. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BTacconi0401.pdf

Tacconi, L., M. Boscolo, D. Brack 2003. National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/Books/BTacconi0401.pdf

Defining and measuring environmental governance

Tacconi, L. 1998. ‘Scientific methodology for ecological economics’, Ecological Economics, 27(1): 91-105.

Tacconi, L. 1996. ‘Dissent from choice theory: implications for environmental decision-making’, International Journal of Social Economics, 23(4-6): 331-345.

Tacconi, L., and J. Bennett 1995. ‘Economic implications of intergenerational equity for biodiversity conservation’, Ecological Economics, 12(3): 209-223.

Development and natural resource management

The management of tropical forests

Tacconi, L., and I. Kurniawan (2006), Forests, agriculture, poverty and land reform: the case of the Indonesian Outer Islands. Environmental Management and Development Occasional Paper 11. Crawford of Economics and Government, The Australian National University, Canberra.

Fryer, J. and Tacconi, L. 2000. ‘Australian aid to the forestry sector’, International Forestry Review, 2(3): 165-166.

Regenvanu, R., S.W. Wyatt, L. Tacconi 1997. ‘Changing forestry regimes in Vanuatu: Is sustainable management possible?’ Contemporary Pacific, 9(1): 73-96.

Tacconi, L. 1995. ‘Rethinking the economic analysis of forests: Theory and practice’, Forest Ecology and Management, 73(1-3): 229-238.

Biodiversity conservation

Tacconi, L. 2000. Biodiversity and Ecological Economics: Participation, Values, and Resource Management. Earthscan Publications, UK and USA.

Tacconi, L. 1997. ‘An ecological economic approach to forest and biodiversity conservation in Vanuatu’, World Development, 25(12): 1995-2008.

Tacconi, L. 1997. ‘Participatory research and ecological economics for biodiversity conservation in Vanuatu’, Participatory Learning and Action Notes, 28: 74-78. International Institute for Environment and Development, London.

Tacconi, L. 1997. ‘Property rights and participatory biodiversity conservation: lessons from Malekula Island, Vanuatu’, Land Use Policy, 14(2): 151-161.

Tacconi, L. and J. Bennett (eds) 1997. Protected Area Assessment and Establishment in Vanuatu: A Socioeconomic Approach. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, Canberra.

Tacconi, L., and J. Bennett 1995. ‘Biodiversity conservation: The Process of economic assessment and establishment of a protected area in Vanuatu’, Development and Change, 26(1): 89-110.

Climate change

Fires and peat land management

Tacconi, L., F. Jotzo, R.Q. Grafton (2008). Local causes, regional co-operation and global financing for environmental problems: the case of Southeast Asian Haze pollution. International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, 8(1):1-16.

Tacconi, L., Y. Ruchiat 2006. ‘ Livelihoods, fire, and policy in Eastern Indonesia’, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography , 27: 67-81.

Tacconi, L., A.P.Vayda 2006. ‘Shifting cultivation and fires in Indonesia: A comment.’ Ecological Economics , 56(1): 1-4.

Tacconi, L., P.F. Moore, D. Kaimowitz (2006). Fires in tropical forests – what is really the problem? Lessons from Indonesia. Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies for Global Change Journal, 12(1): 55-66.

Tacconi, L. 2003. Fires in Indonesia: Causes, Costs, and Policies. Occasional Paper No 38. Center for International Forestry Research, Bogor. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/publications/pdf_files/OccPapers/OP-038.pdf

Chokkalingam, U., L. Tacconi, Y. Ruchiyat 2002. ‘Fire use, peatland transformation and local livelihoods: a case of positive reinforcement?’, i n Rieley, J.O., Page, S.E. (eds.). International Symposium on Tropical Peatland, Jakarta, Indonesia, 22-23 August. Jakarta, Indonesia, Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology (BPPT) and Indonesian Peat Association (IPA): 191-196.

Suyanto, S., G. Applegate, L. Tacconi 2002. ‘Community-based fire management, land tenure, and conflict: insights from Sumatra’ i n: P. Moore, D. Ganz, L.C. Tan, T. Enters and P.B. Durst. Communities in Flames: An International Conference on Community Involvement in Fire Management, Balikpapan, East Kalimantan, 25-28 July. Bangkok, Thailand, FAO Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific: 27-32.

Teaching

• Environmental Governance
• Tools and Processes for Environmental and Resource Management

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