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CV etc.

David Pannell (David.Pannell@uwa.edu.au)      CV

ARC Federation Fellow

Professor, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics,
University of Western Australia

Mail: MO89, UWA, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

 

 

Recent papers     More recent papers >>

Policy for climate change adaptation in agriculture Full paper (180K) 17 Feb 2010

Broad participation versus targeted investment in environmental programs Full paper (100K) Jan 2010

INFFER Practical and Theoretical Underpinnings Full paper (107K) 17 Feb 2010

The cost of errors in prioritising projects Full paper (350K) 16 Sep 2009

Science tools to inform regional investment decisions Full paper (270K pdf) Jul 2009

Explaining long-term trends in hydrographs Full paper (339K pdf) Jul 2009

Making the most of 'Caring for our Country' Full paper (188K pdf) 4 Mar 2009

INFFER: Investment Framework For Environmental Resources (submitted to journal), Full paper (74K) 7 Jan 2009

Conducting and delivering integrated research to influence land-use policy Full paper (94K) 29 Jul 2008  Journal version on-line 26 Jan 2009.

Piloting a systematic framework for public investment in regional natural resource management: dryland salinity in Australia, Full paper (270K) 22 Dec 2008 Journal version on-line 23 Feb 2009

Exploring community values assigned to three natural assets on the Moolort Plains, Victoria. Full report 474K 19 Dec 2008

Pannell Discussions     More Pannell Discussions >>

Brief pieces on issues and ideas in economics, science, the environment, natural resource management, politics, people, and agriculture.

167. Broad vs targeted environmental investment  28 Mar 2010

166. Best albums of the past decade  21 Dec 2009

165. ClimateGate part 3  14 Dec 2009

164. ClimateGate part 2  7 Dec 2009

163. ClimateGate part 1  30 Nov 2009

162. CSIRO and Clive Spash  23 Nov 2009

161. Climate policy: alternative approach  16 Nov 2009

160. Tokenistic climate policy  19 Oct 2009

159. The cost of inaccurate data  28 Sep 2009

158. Using the wrong metric to prioritise projects  21 Sep 2009

157. Is the community an environmental asset?  14Sep 2009

156. Eureka!  24 Aug 2009

 

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Popular papers

Pannell, D.J. (2008). Public benefits, private benefits, and policy intervention for land-use change for environmental benefits, Land Economics 84(2): 225-240.  Full paper (140K) Award for "Quality of Research Discovery" from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Pannell, D.J., Hailu, G. Weersink, A., and Burt, A. (2008). More reasons why farmers have so little interest in futures markets, Agricultural Economics 39(1): 41-50., pre-publication version available here (132K pdf file). Award for "Quality of Communication" from Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Pannell, D.J. (2006). Flat-earth economics: The far-reaching consequences of flat payoff functions in economic decision making, Review of Agricultural Economics 28(4), 553-566. Final published paper at journal web site here. Prepublication version here (44K). Powerpoint file (315K)

Pannell, D.J., Marshall, G.R., Barr, N., Curtis, A., Vanclay, F. and Wilkinson, R. (2006). Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders. Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture 46(11): 1407-1424. Access paper at Journal web site here. Pre-publication version available here (161K). In May 2008 this paper became the all-time most downloaded paper from that journal.

Pannell, D.J. (1997). Sensitivity analysis of normative economic models: Theoretical framework and practical strategies. Agricultural Economics 16: 139-152. Full paper (100 K) Most downloaded paper from my site (by far) - 4500 downloads in 2009.

 

 

Understanding Practice Change by Rural Landholders

National Symposium, 14 November 2008, Melbourne.

Outputs from the Symposium, including videos, audio podcasts, and PowerPoint files, are now available at www.RuralPracticeChange.org

 

Speakers (L-R): Geoff Kaine, David Pannell, Neil Barr, Frank Vanclay, Graham Marshall, Roger Wilkinson, Allan Curtis, Rick Llewellyn

 

 

Recent talks

 

CSIRO, Floreat, 21 April 2010, "Climate adaptation policy for agriculture"

UWA, 26 March 2010, "Targeting versus Broad Participation in Environmental Investment"

Centre for Water Research, UWA, 10 March 2010, Connecting science to policy"

AARES 2010 conference, 10 Feb 2010, "Climate change adaptation policy for agriculture"

AARES 2010 conference, 11 Feb 2010, "INFFER practical and theoretical underpinnings"

University of Western Australia, School of Environmental Systems Engineering, 22 October 2009, "Research to support and influence environmental managers and policy makers"

University of Melbourne, School of Land and Environment, Dean's Lecture, 12 October 2009, "Linking Science to Policy"

University of Melbourne, Australian Centre of Excellence for Risk Analysis, 12 October 2009, "Environmental Decision Making: Development and Delivery of Tools to Assist Managers and Policy Makers"

University of Western Australia, 7 October 2009, "Doing research to make a difference", Student Research Conference

University of Western Australia, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2 October 2009, "The environmental cost of poor prioritisation of environmental projects"

University of New England, 19 August 2009, "Farm Management and Environmental Policy", Jack Makeham Memorial Lecture.

ZheJiang University, China, 20 July 2009, "Water management issues in Australia and the role of interdisciplinary research" and "Costs of alternative policies to improve water quality in a New Zealand lake"

Surprising truths about Charles Darwin Powerpoint file (780K) (see also written article here)

 

  Publications

 

Complete list (with links to copies on the web where available)

Lists by subject area

Salinity, Natural Resource Management, Landcare

Whole-farm bio-economic modelling

Weed economics, herbicide resistance

Agricultural extension/adoption of innovations

 

 Work links

Projects

INFFER: Investment Framework For Environmental Resources

RuralPracticeChange.org: Materials from national symposium on practice change by rural landholders

SIF3: Salinity Investment Framework III

SEA: Sustainability and Economics in Agriculture

MIDAS: whole-farm bio-economic model

RIM: bio-economic model for integrated management of herbicide-resistant weeds

HARTT: Hydrograph Analysis - Rainfall and Time Trend

Public: Private Benefits Framework: for selecting policy tools for environmental programs

Journals

Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE)
(Manuscript Central site for submission to AJARE)

Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics

Agricultural Systems

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics

Other journal web pages and other links for agricultural and resource economics

Some advice for postgraduate research students

General tips, MS Word, writing, thesis preparation, literature reviews

Reviewing journal articles

Advice on handling the publication process "Prose, psychopaths and persistence" (66K)

PowerPoint tips

Doing sensitivity analysis with computer models

A web site with some good advice about technical writing

Punctuation made simple This is a great little site that deals with most of the punctuation issues that cause trouble:
Colon | Semicolon | Comma | Apostrophe

Strangely it ignores the hyphen: one of my favourites! Wikipedia covers it extensively here.
Another simple guide to punctuation is here.

Organisations

School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, UWA

Future Farm Industries CRC

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society

    REFLIST: Software to check research papers and theses for consistency of references

Download REFLIST (81K zip file). Unzip the file into a suitable folder and read REFLIST.TXT for user manual.

 

 Non-work links

 

Music links

Favourites and recommendations (music, books, films, cartoons)

GCGC limericks

 


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