Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy

W/Prof David Pannell

Winthrop Professor/ARC Federation Fellow
School of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Contact details

Address

School of Agricultural and Resource Economics
The University of Western Australia (M089)
35 Stirling Highway
CRAWLEY WA 6009
Australia

Phone

6488 4735

Fax

6488 1098

Email

David.Pannell@uwa.edu.au

Personal homepage

http://davidpannell.net

Qualifications

BSc(Agric) BEc PhD W.Aust.

Biography

David Pannell is Professor in the School of Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of Western Australia, Director of the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy, and a Federation Fellow of the Australian Research Council. His research includes the economics of land and water conservation; environmental policy; farmer adoption of land conservation practices; risk management; and economics of farming systems. He was President of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in 2000. Author of 150 journal articles and book chapters, David’s research has won awards in the USA, Australia, Canada and the UK, including the 2009 Eureka Prize for Interdisciplinary Research.

Key research

Research expertise in environmental, resource and agricultural economics: (a) management of natural resources and the environment, (b) environmental policy, (c) adoption and diffusion of innovations, (d) whole-farm bioeconomic modelling (e) agricultural risk and uncertainty, (f) evaluation and prioritisation of research, (g) mathematical programming techniques, (h) economics of weed management, (i) dryland salinity.

Publications

5 books and monographs and 150 journal articles and book chapters.
100 other reports, conference papers, extension articles, etc.
For complete list, see personal web page at http://www.davidpannell.net

Roles, responsibilities and expertise

Director, Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy

Funding received

$11 million in 40 projects since 1983.

Industrial relevance

Applied research on dryland salinity and farming systems relevant to agricultural industries. Collaborative and participatory research on environmental management and environmental policy. 20 regional environmental bodies have used tools developed in the INFFER project.

Memberships

Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Agricultural and Applied Economics Association
Amnesty International, since 1991.

Honours and awards

2009 ARC Eureka Prize for Excellence in Interdisciplinary Research
2009 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Quality of Research Discovery award
2009 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Quality of Communication award
2008 UWA award: Higher Degree by Research Achievement to student Graeme Doole, for Doole and Pannell (2008) Journal of Agricultural Economics 59(1): 188-206.
2008 Finalist, Eureka Prize for Environmental Research
2007 Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship.
2007 Invited by the Gates Foundation to RoundTable and a meeting of HarvestChoice to advise on analysis for agricultural research priorities for the poor.
2007 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Best article in Connections: Farm, Food and Resource Issues.
2007 Award of “Distinction” granted by UWA to PhD student Graeme Doole under my supervision.
2007 Outstanding journal reviewer for 2006, Agricultural Systems
2007 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Prize for best PhD thesis in Australia or New Zealand awarded to my student, Graeme Doole.
2006 Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, AARES Fellowship to attend IAAE 2006 conference.
2005 Named as one of 500 "Western Australian Leaders" by the Sunday Times newspaper.
2004. National Dryland Salinity Program, "W.E. Wood Award" for excellence in salinity R&D.
2003. American Agricultural Economics Association, Outstanding Journal Article in the Review of Agricultural Economics for 2002
2001. Canadian Agricultural Economics Society, outstanding journal article award for 2000.
1997. Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Best Article in the Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics during 1996.
1996. University of Western Australia "Excellence in Postgraduate Supervision" (Commendation).
1994. University of Western Australia "Excellence in Teaching" award.
1992. Australian Agricultural Economics Society PhD Thesis Prize, for 1990-1991.
1990. Agricultural Economics Society (Britain) Prize Article Competition.

Previous positions

2002. Visiting Professor, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, Oct-Dec.
2001. Member, Ministerial Task Force on WA Salinity Policy
2000. National President, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
1995. Visiting Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics, University of Saskatchewan, Canada. June-December.
1983-91. Research economist with the Western Australian Department of Agriculture.
1978-81. Professional musician.

Teaching

Supervising 9 post-graduate students

Current external positions

Chair, Project Evaluation Committee, Future Farm Industries CRC

Useful links

INFFER project: http://www.inffer.org
SIF3 project: http://www.sif3.org
Public: Private Benefits Framework: http://cyllene.uwa.edu.au/~dpannell/ppf.htm
Rural Practice Change: http://www.ruralpracticechange.org/

Current projects

INFFER
National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training

Research profile

Research profile and publications