About the Editor
Jeff Bennett is Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Jeff is widely published in environmental, natural resource and agricultural economics and is an internationally recognised leader in the fields of environmental valuation and private-sector involvement in environmental protection.
About the Contributors
Sven Anders is an Associate Professor of Agricultural Economics in the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta. His research interest lies in the economics of vertical food marketing and retailing, with a focus on consumer and firm behaviour along agri-food value chains. His research includes work on food standards, food trade, and food policy. Sven has published in the area of third-party certification in food systems, food-nutrition-health, and he conducts research on the impact of food-health related product differentiation on manufacturer retail competition.
Terry L Anderson is the William A Dunn Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, Montana, and the John and Jean DeNault Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. His is author or editor of 38 books, including, Free Market Environmentalism for the Next Generation and Environmental Markets: A Property Rights Approach. Anderson holds a PhD in economics from the University of Washington (1972) and is an avid outdoorsman accomplished at archery hunting, fly fishing, skiing, and horseback riding.
Anthea Coggan is an Environmental Economist with the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Australia. Anthea's research is focused on designing and evaluating innovate ways to change the incentives faced by land managers such that they provide public goods such as biodiversity conservation to a level that is socially desirable. One particular economic instrument which has captured Anthea's attention is biodiversity offsetting. Anthea has a number of publications focused on efficient and effective offset design, as well as publications on environmental policy design more broadly.
Lin Crase is Professor of Applied Economics and Director of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University. He has published extensively on water resource management, water property rights and the intersection between public policy and resource management objectives.
Dustin Garrick is Assistant Professor and Philomathia Chair of Water Policy at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada. His comparative water policy research examines water allocation institutions and climate change adaptation in transboundary rivers of western North America and Southeast Australia, where he completed a Fulbright Fellowship in 2011. He currently serves on the OECD/Global Water Partnership task force on water security and sustainable growth, and as Colorado River Basin chair of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) network.
Robert Gillespie is the Principal of Gillespie Economics, an environmental and resource economics consultancy business. He has extensive experience in the application of welfare economics to a diverse range of public and private-sector policies and projects and a particular interest in the valuation of environmental, social and cultural impacts using non-market valuation techniques.
Ellen Goddard is a Professor holding the Co-operative Chair in Agricultural Marketing and Business in the School of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, Canada. Professor Goddard's research interests include: agricultural marketing; trade and policy; consumer demand for foods in Canada; impact of advertising and other media information on consumer demand; and agribusiness co-operatives. She has also published extensively in these areas. Professor Goddard is the Program Leader, Consumer and Market Demand Policy Research Networks, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, and Member of the AVRI Council.
Quentin Grafton is Professor of Economics at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He is Chairholder of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Chair of Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance, Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water Network and is also a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia and a Society Fellow of the Asia Pacific Policy Society.
Suzie Greenhalgh leads the environmental policy and governance research at Landcare Research NZ. She is an applied researcher working with national and regional level government, business and communities to address pressing and emerging environmental challenges. Suzie spent a number of years in the USA working on US and global environmental issues and now predominantly works in New Zealand and the Pacific. Her primary areas of expertise are water policy and governance and the use of ecosystem service concepts to underpin decision-making.
Laure Kuhfuss is a Post-Doctoral researcher in the department of Geography and Sustainable Development at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom. Her research is in the area of agricultural and environmental economics, with a special focus on payment for environmental services schemes. Her PhD work, carried out at the University of Montpellier 1, focused on the evaluation and design of innovative agri-environmental contracts in France.
Philippe Le Coent is a PhD student in Environmental Economics conducting research on innovative incentive systems for farmers to adopt pro-environmental practices, mobilizing behavioural and experimental economics. He started his career as an agronomist in international agricultural Development for 10 years, mostly at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
Erin O'Donnell is an Environmental Water Law and Policy Specialist. She has worked in the Australian water sector for the past decade, where she developed and implemented policies to manage environmental water in the context of a water market. Erin is currently completing her PhD at the University of Melbourne Law School, on the water markets and environmental water management organizations of south-eastern Australia and the western USA. Sue O'Keefe is an Associate Professor in the School of Economics and Finance and a member of the Centre for Water Policy and Management at La Trobe University. Her research interests are in water policy and management.
Raphaële Préget is permanent researcher in Applied Economics at the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA). She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Paris I. Her research is in the field of environmental economics, public economics and behavioural economics.
John Rolfe is Professor of Regional Economic Development and Deputy Dean Research in the School of Business and Law at the CQ University at Rockhampton. John has a number of research interests, but specialises in non-market valuation, regional development, and environmental, resource and agricultural economic issues. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief for the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics.
Gabriela Scheufele is a Research Fellow in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. She completed a PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics investigating changes in non-market values and non-market-valuation techniques across time at the Australian National University in 2011. Her current research interests focus on Payments for Environmental Services (PES) scheme design; non-market environmental valuation; design of conservation auctions; and incorporating environmental economic research into policy development.
Kathleen Segerson is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. She serves on the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources, is a co-editor of the Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and is a Fellow of both the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists (AERE) and the Agricultural and Applied Economics Association (AAEA).
Mindy Selman is a Senior Associate in the World Resources Institute's Water Program. Her current research covers a variety of issues including environmental markets, eutrophication, and agricultural policy. She is an internationally recognized expert in water quality trading and has led work to develop nonpoint source estimation tools and registries for the Chesapeake Bay water quality markets. Before joining World Resource Institute (WRI), Mindy completed her MS in Sustainable Development and Conservation Biology from the University of Maryland; she holds her undergraduate degree in International Relations from Mary Washington College. Dale Squires is Senior Scientist with US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries and Adjunct Professor of Economics at the University of California San Diego. He serves on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the International Pole and Line Foundation.
Luca Tacconi is Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. 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. He is conducting research on environmental governance, social and economic aspects of deforestation and climate change, PES, and research methods for environmental management.
Michael 't Sas-Rolfes is an independent conservation economist based in Cape Town, South Africa. With an academic background spanning business, environmental resource economics and biodiversity policy, he has been actively involved in wildlife conservation for most of his life, as a practitioner, researcher, consultant, writer and presenter. His areas of specialist expertise include wildlife trade policy and innovative mechanisms for financing and managing protected areas, with a strong focus on the role of the private sector and markets in conservation.
Sophie Thoyer is Professor in Agricultural and Environmental Economics and Head of the department of social, economic and management science of Montpellier Supagro (France). She publishes in the field of public economics applied to agri-environmental issues. She has worked extensively on water management and biodiversity protection issues with a special interest in the design of optimal agri-environmental schemes.
Wendy Umberger is an Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy and the Director of Global Food Studies Centre at the University of Adelaide. Umberger's research focus is in the area of behavioural economics. She uses innovative methods to understand drivers of consumer and producer behaviour related to agricultural and food technology adoption, food quality, food safety, nutrition and claims related to quality (credence) attributes. She has published extensively on these issues and has been invited to present her work internationally to a variety of global audiences, including the agricultural and food industry, government and academia.
Lawrence (Reed) Watson is the Executive Director at PERC, the PERC in Bozeman, Montana. He also directs PERC's Enviropreneur Institute, an educational program and launchpad for environmental entrepreneurs. Watson's research focuses on the implementation of market-based solutions to natural resource conflicts. He holds a JD and MA in Environmental Economics from Duke University and a BS in Economics from Clemson University.
Ken Willis is Emeritus Professor of Environmental Economics in the School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. His research interests include environmental and non-market valuation, environmental regulation, choice behaviour, and cultural economics, and has published extensively in these fields. Ken is Editor of the Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy.
