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Morteza Chalak is a Research Assistant Professor at the University of Western Australia. He received his PhD in Environmental Economics from Wageningen University in the Netherlands. His PhD thesis was on the economics of invasive species and one of his thesis focus area was the control of Californian thistle in New Zealand. He visited Massey University in New Zealand to collaborate with the researchers and obtain necessary data for his PhD thesis.

Morteza obtained his PhD in February 2009 and since then he has been employed by the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia. Morteza is interested in addressing policy relevant questions in regard to natural resource problems. His research ...
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Graeme Doole is an Associate Professor (Research) at the Centre of Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia and a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Economics at the University of Waikato. His research involves the use of analytical and empirical methods to investigate how best to manage agricultural and natural systems.

A significant proportion of this work involves the formulation of appropriate policy instruments to achieve economic, environmental, and social outcomes from the regulation of agricultural and mining activity.

He has published broadly across diverse subject areas, including the design of computational algorithms to solve complex decision problems in applied economics, re ...
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Fiona is working on the NERP projects 'Trade-offs among social, economic and environmental values', 'Comparing the value for money from targeted, untargeted and landscape-scale approaches to biodiversity protection', and CEED projects 'Comparing decision metrics used in environmental project prioritisation' and 'understanding barriers to the adoption of decision theory in environmental policy'.

She received her doctorate from the University of Western Australia on September 15 2011. Fiona is currently working in the space of bushfire management, biodiversity and water resources. Fiona's research aims to provide better advice to decision makers on effective policy design and the factors driving community adoption of such policies. ...
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Scott Jeffrey is an Associate Professor (Research) in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia, and is currently on leave from the Department of Resource Economics and Environmental Sociology at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada.

Scott's research focuses on the farm-level economics of ecosystem service production and the impact of agricultural production on environmental quality. His research at UWA includes examining the economics of environmental research prioritization, and the economic tradeoffs for farmers adopting practices that contribute to carbon sequestration.

Scott is currently a councillor for the Canadian Agricultural Economics Society and is a former ...
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Marit Kragt is an Assistant Professor at the School of Agricultural & Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia, and a researcher at the UWA Centre of Environmental Economics and Policy. Her research is targeted at helping to solve policy pertinent environmental problems.

A significant proportion of her research focuses on conservation practices in agriculture; formulation of efficient natural resource management policies; and non-market valuation of environmental assets.

She is currently involved in two projects that span both CEED and NERP projects. One project is looking at the tradeoffs between biodiversity and carbon benefits provided b ...
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Caroline is a Research Officer in the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia. Caroline helps in many ways to keep the WA node of EDG running smoothly, including by collating and forwarding the necessary financial and KPI info relating to the UWA projects.

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Maksym received his doctorate degree in applied economics from Auburn University in 2004. Prior to coming to UWA, he had postdoctoral positions at Auburn University and NCSU studying anthropogenic effects on diversity of forest trees; impact of property tax policy, urbanization, and markets on land use change; and analysing harvest behaviour of private forest owners. His research interests include environmental and resource economics, land economics, biodiversity conservation, and spatially explicit bio-economic modelling.

He is interested in the integration of ecology and economics to better understand the choices humans make concerning natural resources and consequences of these choices for the environment.

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Rachel is a plant ecologist with a broad interest in ecology and its application to ecosystem management. Her research is grounded in theory but driven by an interest in developing practical outcomes for ecosystem management in a rapidly changing world.

Rachel started working for CEED/NERP in May 2012. Her current projects include:

i) Using restoration records to assess the resilience of jarrah forest to climate change;

ii) Review of experimental tests of resilience and related concepts and how these might inform ecosystem management; and

iii) Testing fire as a tool for the restoration of degraded eucalypt woodlands.

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James is an Honorary Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (UQ) and leads the Climate Change Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).  James began working with UQ on research now assocated with CEED's Theme 3 as a  postdoctoral fellow. In this role he worked closely with different government agencies and environmental NGOs to prioritize conservation investment in different countries.  James appointment as an Honorary Associate Professor at ...
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