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R. Quentin GraftonB.Ag. Econ (Massey), MS (Iowa State University), PhD (University of British Columbia) Professor, Co - Chair of ANU Water Initiative, |
Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics and Research Director at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU) and Honorary Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Otago. Previously he was Senior Fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies (2001-2004) at the ANU, Director of the Institute of the Environment (1999-2001) at the University of Ottawa (UO) and Associate Professor and Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at UO. He has an abiding interest in the problems of the environment, especially the overexploitation of renewable resources (fisheries and water), and in social capital and economic growth. He graduated with a PhD in Economics from the University of British Columbia in 1992, and holds an MS degree from Iowa State University and an undergraduate degree from Massey University in agricultural economics. He currently serves as Editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. He has published more than 60 scholarly articles in some of the world's leading journals in economics and the life sciences (such as Science), 20 chapters in books, three edited books and six authored books including The Economics of the Environment and Natural Resources , Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides and Economics for Fisheries Management. He is currently a Chief Investigator on four Australian Research Council grants (two Discovery and two Linkage grants) and the recipient of several research awards including the Premier's Research Excellence Award from the Province of Ontario.
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Links
- Economics of Overexploitation Revisited: (published in Science 318:1601)
- Co-author Documents
- International and Development Economics Research and Working Papers
- Economics and Environmental Network
- ANU Water Initiative
Research interests/expertise
- Water pricing
- Water markets and water economics
- Social networks and network theory
- Fisheries management (especially marine reserves)
- Property rights (especially quantitative instruments in resource and environmental management)
Current Projects
- Economics costs at water restrictions
- Human-induced impact on water scarcity
- Optimal investment in water supply
- Marine reserve and ecological uncertainty
- Social networks and productivity
- Social capital and environmental performance
- Efficiency measures in fisheries
Current PhD Students
- Hannah Parris
- Ross Lambie
- Quynh Nguyen
- Qiang Jiang
- Pamela Katic
Professional Courses
- Water Economics -
View Evaluations - Environmental Economics for Non-Economists - View Evaluations
- Fisheries Management Course - View Evaluations
- Fisheries Economics Course - View Evaluations
Teaching
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IDEC 8053 - Environmental Economics
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Media Releases and Articles
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Quentin Grafton writes "One fish, two fish, no fish", Inside Story, 18 August, 2009
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Quentin Grafton interviewed on ABC Radio (Rear Vision) regarding "The end of fish", 22 July, 2009 [view article]
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Quentin Grafton interviewed on WIN News regarding "Sustainable Future - Water Workshop", 10 March, 2009
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Quentin Grafton mentioned in "Murray-Darling needs more: economist", Sydney Morning Herald, 18 February, 2009
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Quentin Grafton writes "$10b Murray buyback vital for land and economy", Canberra Times, 6 February, 2009
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"So much money down the drain" Sydney Morning Herald, July 18 2008
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"Catch cuts 'bring bigger profits'" BBC Online News, December 7 2007
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"Fishing for Profits: Reduced Catch Means Net Gain for Fishers—And Fish" Scientific America, December 6, 2007
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"The Continent that ran dry" NewScientist Magazine, June 16 2007
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"Raise water price: study" Australian Financial Review, November 28 2006
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"Water prices should increase, says expert" ABC News Online, November 28 2006
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"Sydney's water view should be more costly: Costly" ANU Media Release, November 23 2006
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"Water price must reflect all costs", The Australian Financial Review, November 7 2006.
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" 'Living Murray' strategy needs rethink: study" ANU Media Release, 6 November 2006
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Highlighted Publications
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Fox, K.J., R. Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley and D. Squires. Property Rights in a fishery: regulatory change and firm performance. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 46: 156-177, 2003. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. , S.I. Steinshamn and L. Sandal. How to Improve the Management of Renewable Resources: The Case of Canada’s Northern Cod Fishery, American Journal of Agricultural Economics 82: 570-580, August 2000. View publication online >>
Selected Publications
- Yamazaki, S., T. Kompas and R.Q. Grafton. Output versus Input Controls under Uncertainty: The Case of a Fishery. Natural Resource Modeling (in press). View publication online >>
- Connell, D. and R.Q. Grafton. Planning for Water Security in the Murray-Darling Basin. Public Policy 3(1): 67-86, 2008. View publication online >>
- Tran, B., R.Q. Grafton and T. Kompas. Institutions Matter: The Case of Vietnam. Journal of Socio-Economics 38: 1-12, 2009. View publication online >>
- Bich, T., R.Q. Grafton and T. Kompas. Firm Efficiency in a Transition Economy: Evidence from Vietnam. Asian Economic Journal 22(1): 47-66, 2008. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q., Hilborn, R. Ridgeway L., Squires D., Williams M., Garcia S., Groves T., Joseph J., Kelleher K., Kompas T., Libecap G., Lundin C-G, Makino, M., Matthiasson T., McLoughlin R., Parma, A., San Martin, G., Satia, B., Schmidt C-C, Tait, M., Zhang L. Positioning Fisheries in a Changing World. Marine Policy 42(4): 630-634, 2008. View publication online >>
- Kompas, T., T.N. Che and R.Q. Grafton. Fisheries Instrument Choice under Uncertainty. Land Economics 84(4): 652-666, 2008. View publication online >>
- Tacconi, L., F. Jotzo and R.Q. Grafton. 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 8:1-16, 2008. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q., T. Kompas and P. Dorian Owen. Bridging the Barriers: Knowledge Connections, Productivity and Capital Accumulation. Journal of Productivity Analysis 28: 219-231, 2007 View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. and K. Hussey. Buying Back the Murray: At What Price? Australasian Journal of Environmental Management 14(2): 74-81, 2007 View publication online >>
- Parris, H., Grafton, R.Q., Can Tuna Promote Sustainable Development in the Pacific? The Journal of Environment & Development. 15(3) 269-296, 2006. [View article]
- Fox, K.J., Grafton, R.Q., Kompas, T., Nhu Che, T. Capacity reduction, quota trading and productivity: the case of a fishery. The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 50: 189-206, 2006. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q., et al. Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 63: 699-710, 2006. View online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. What Restoration Schemes Can Do. Or, Getting It Right Without Fisheries Transferable Quotas. Ocean Development & International Law 36: 383-387, 2005. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. and Kompas, T. Uncertainty and the active adaptive management of marine reserves. Marine Policy. 29: 471-479, 2005. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. Social capital and fisheries governance. Ocean & Coastal Management. 48: 753-766, 2005. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. T. Kompas and D. Lindenmayer. Marine Reserves with Ecological Uncertainty. Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 67:957-971 . View publication online >>
- Dupont, D.P., K.J. Fox, D.V. Gordon and R.Q. Grafton. Profit and Price Effects of Multi-species Individual Transferable Quotas. Journal of Agricultural Economics 56 No. 1; 31-577, 2005. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. and T. Kompas. Uncertainty and the Active Adaptive Management of Marine Reserves. Marine Policy 29: 471-479, 2005. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q., T. Kompas and V. Schneider. The Bioeconomics of Marine Reserves: A Selected Review with Policy Implications. Journal of Bioeconomics 7: 161-178 . View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q. and S. Knowles. Social Capital and National Environmental Performance: A Cross-Sectional Analysis. Journal of Environment and Development 13(4): 336-370, 2004. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q., F. Jotzo and M. Wasson. Financing SD: Country Undertakings and Rights for Environmental Sustainability. Ecological Economics 51(1-2): 65-78, 2004. View publication online >>
- Kompas, T., T. N. Che and R.Q. Grafton. Technical Efficiency Effects of Input Controls: Evidence from Australia's Banana Prawn Fishery. Applied Economics 36: 1631-1641, 2004. View publication online >>
- Chand, S, R.Q. Grafton and E. Petersen, Multilateral Governance of Fisheries Management and Cooperation in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries. Marine Resource Economics 18(4): 329-344, 2003.
- Sandal, L., S.I. Steinshamn and R.Q. Grafton. “More is less”: the tax Effects of Ignoring Flow Externalities. Resource and Energy Economics 25: 239-254, 2003. View publication online >>
- Day, K.M. and R.Q. Grafton. Growth and the Environment in Canada: An Empirical Analysis. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 51: 197-216, 2003. View publication online >>
- Squires, D., R.Q. Grafton, M.F. Alam, and I.H. Omar. Technical Efficiency in the Malaysian gill net artisanal fishery. Environment and Development Economics 8: 481-504, 2003.
- R.Q. Grafton. Property and Resource Management in Australia: Rights and Responsibilities. Australian Journal of Environmental Management 10: 70-72, 2003.
- Dupont, D.P., R.Q. Grafton, J. Kirkley and D. Squires. Capacity Utilization Measures and Excess Capacity in Multi-Product Privatized Fisheries. Resource and Energy Economics 24: 193-210, 2002. View publication online >>
- Dupont, D. and R.Q. Grafton. Multispecies Individual Transferable Quotas: The Scotia-Fundy Mobile Gear Groundfishery. Marine Resource Economics 15: 205-220, 2001.
- Fox, K.J. and R.Q. Grafton. Nonparametric Estimation of Returns to Scale: Method and Application. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics 48: 341-354, 2000.
- Grafton, R.Q. Governance of the Commons: A Role for the State? Land Economics. 76(4): 504-517, November 2000.
- Devlin, R.A., Grafton, R.Q. and D. Rowlands, Rights and Wrongs: A Property Rights Perspective of Russia’s Market Reforms, The Antitrust Bulletin: 275-296, Spring 1998.
- Grafton, R.Q. and D.E. Lane, Canadian Fisheries Policy: Challenges and Choices, Canadian Public Policy 24: 133-148, 1998.
- Grafton, R.Q ., R.W. Lynch and H.W. Nelson, British Columbia’s Stumpage System: Economic and Trade Policy Implications, Canadian Public Policy 24: S41-50, 1998.
- Squires, D. H. Campbell, S. Cunningham, C. Dewees, R.Q. Grafton, S.F. Herrick Jnr., J. Kirkley, S. Pascoe, K. Salvanes, B. Shallard, B. Turris and N. Vestergaard, Individual Transferable Quotas in Multispecies Fisheries, Marine Policy 22(2): 135-159, 1998.
- Foulo, T. and R.Q. Grafton, Structural Adjustment in Lesotho: An Evaluation, Journal of Policy Modeling 20: 791-814, 1998.
- Grafton, R.Q ., T. Hazledine and B. Butchardt, The New Zealand Economic Revolution: Lessons for Canada? Canadian Business Economics 6(Fall): 3-19, 1997.
- Grafton, R.Q. and J. Silva-Echenique, How to Manage Nature? Strategies, Predator-Prey Models and Chaos, Marine Resource Economics 12: 127-143, 1997.
- Grafton, R.Q. and H.W. Nelson, Fishers’ Individual Salmon Harvesting Rights: An Option for Canada’s Pacific Fisheries, Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 54(February): 474-482, 1997.
- Grafton, R.Q ., D. Squires and J. Kirkley, Turning the Tide? Private Property Rights and the Crises in World Fisheries, Contemporary Economic Policy 14(4): 90-99, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q . Implications of Taxing Quota in an Individual Transferable Quota Fishery: A Comment, Marine Resource Economics 11: 125-127, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q. and D. Rowlands, Development Impeding Institutions: The Political Economy of Haiti, Canadian Journal of Development Studies 17(2): 261-278, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q. and R.A. Devlin, Paying for Pollution: Permits and Charges, Scandinavian Journal of Economics 98(2): 275-288, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q. , Experiences with Individual Transferable Quotas: An Overview, Canadian Journal of Economics 29: s135-138, 1996.
- Devlin, R.A. and R.Q. Grafton, Marketable Emission Permits: Efficiency, Profitability and Substitutability, Canadian Journal of Economics 29: s260-264, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q. Individual Transferable Quotas: Theory and Practice, Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries 6: 5-20, 1996.
- Grafton, R.Q. Rent Capture in a Rights-Based Fishery, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management 28(1): 48-67, 1995. View publication online >>
- Grafton, R.Q ., A Note on Uncertainty and Rent Capture in an ITQ Fishery, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 27(3): 286-294, 1994 View publication online >>
Selected Books
- Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides, (University of New South Wales Press/CAER, 2005), 229 pp. Edited by R.Q. Grafton, L. Robin and R.J. Wasson. [more information]
- A Dictionary of Environmental Economics, Science and Policy (Edward Elgar, 2001), 362 pp. Co-authored with Linwood Pendleton and Harry W. Nelson.
- Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs: Property Rights for the Common Good (Edward Elgar, 1998), 189 pp. Co-authored with R.A. Devlin.
Contact Details
| Telephone: | +61 2 6125 6558 |
| Fax: | +61 2 6125 5570 |
| Email: | quentin.grafton@anu.edu.au |
| Mailing address: | Room 215, JG Crawford Building (Bldg 13) |
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