Consumption-based water pricing and price elasticities

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.
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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.
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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.

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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.

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Research project 5: Professor Quentin Grafton, ANU

Examination of the theory and practical implication of combining marine reserves with fisheries management tools

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Research project 9: Prof Kevin Fox, UNSW

Assessment of the impacts of uncertainty on decisions regarding incentive schemes for salinity abatement.

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Research project 14: Dr Tom Kompas, ANU

An economic evaluation of measures to protecting Australia’s environment from imported pests and diseases.

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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.

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Research project 7: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU

Non-market valuation techniques employed to aid the development of efficient natural resource management policies.

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Research project 8: Prof Michael Burton, UWA

Identifies differences between public and expert preferences for environmental assets within various systems that capture differences in scale and setting.

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Research project 15: Dr. Ralf Steinhauser, ANU

Empirical examination of peoples preferences for environmental goods or services and explanation of possibly existing non-rational patterns.

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Research project 16: 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.

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Research project 17: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU

This research will focus on determining these broader yet less readily observable social costs and benefits as applied to the disposal of residential putrescible waste in Australia. To develop understanding of these values, the research will use stated preference techniques known as choice experiments which ask individuals to state their preferences among the different policy options. Variation in the attribute levels, e.g., cost, within and across scenarios, imposes tradeoffs, which allow statistical models to be estimated. These models are then used to quantify individuals' values for the different aspects of waste disposal options.

Research project 18: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU

A number of the world's marine ecosystems are under significant environmental stress as result of human actions including, but not limited to, commercial fishing practices, agricultural runoff, and pollution. A consequence has been the loss of biodiversity. This trend appears likely to continue without intervention. Improving or maintaining biodiversity over current levels has costs. The important question becomes whether the benefits of preserving biodiversity outweigh the costs, and more precisely, what is the optimal level of biodiversity. This research will specifically focus on generating understanding of the benefits which accrue to community members from biodiversity in marine protected areas in Southeastern Australia.

Research project 19: Prof David Throsby, Macquarie University

The objective of the project is to determine a methodology for a long-term study to estimate the use and non-use values of various attributes of historic heritage places. The outcome of the long-term study will be to provide a set of transferable monetary estimates of the values of various attributes of historic heritage places, for use in the design of Government policies and programs.

Development of the methodology will be the first stage of a larger research program, comprising four stages - (i) development of methodology, (ii) development of the survey(s), (iii) collection of data and (iv) analysis of data.

Research project 20: Prof Jeff Bennett, ANU

Australia's collections of biodiversity, including those of Botanic Gardens, Universities, CSIRO etc are diverse and geographically scattered. Their futures are less than assured given funding restrictions and the high costs of maintenance. This project aims to investigate the benefits that could be achieved by managing these collections in different ways. These alternatives will include various types of electronic cataloguing to enable the transaction costs of accessing the collections to be lowered. The goal is to provide government with information that will enable the formulation of improved policies for the management of the collections.