Gabriela Scheufele

Nationality:

Qualifications:

PhD programme:

Environmental Management and Development

Supervisor(s) and panel members:

Professor Jeff Bennett, Crawford School of Economics and Government

Dr. David P. Godden, Manager, Economics Services Section, Department of Environment and Climate Change

Topic title and description:

Environmental Values and Valuation Over Time
Economists have been engaged in the development and application of methods to estimate non-market environmental values in monetary terms for over 30 years. This history of valuation provides an opportunity to make comparisons of value estimates and the performance of valuation techniques over time.

The goal of this project is to make such comparisons with reference to the existence benefits of a protected natural area. In 1978, the first contingent valuation method application undertaken in Australia was focused on Nadgee Nature Reserve on the far south coast of New South Wales. The intention is to replicate that study using both the original questionnaire and sampling techniques and state of the art non-market valuation tools. The comparison over time afforded by this replication will provide insights into the extent and direction of changes in environmental preferences in Australia and the impact on value estimates of methodological evolution.

Scholarships and Fellowships:

Miscellaneous Scholarship funded by a grant under the Environmental Economics Research Hub (EERH)

Publications:

Kreibich, H., Lehmann, J., Scheufele, G. & Kern, J., “Nitrogen availability and leaching during the terrestrial phase in a várzea forest of the central Amazon floodplain”, Biol. Fertil. Soils 2003-39:62-64

Eger, H. & Scheufele, G., „Vorreiter Kuba – Neue Wege im Management der Natürlichen Ressourcen“, ila – Informationstelle Lateinamerika e.V. 2000-238

Employment history:

2008 – present: Fenner School of Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. Tutor for Economics for the Environment

2007: School of Economics, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. Research Assistant

2003 – 2005: GTZ (German Development Cooperation), Frankfurt, Germany. Country Manager for Development Cooperation with Colombia

2001 – 2003: GTZ (German Development Cooperation), Lima , Peru. Adviser in the Convention Project to Combat Desertification and assistant to the director of the GTZ Agency in Lima, Peru

2000: GTZ (German Development Cooperation), Frankfurt & Bonn, Germany. Consultant for the projects Rural Development in the Provinces of La Rioja and Catamarca, Bolivia, Rural Development Program in Dry Areas (Bolivia), and the Convention Project to Combat Desertification (Germany)

Mailing address:

EMD Program, Crawford School of Economics and Government

J.G Crawford Building, Building #13, Ellery Crescent, The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia