BIO
I am an empirical resource economist, with particular interest in forest-related issues. I enjoy working in areas that require interdisciplinary inputs and collaboration with researchers in natural and social sciences. My activity in Small-Scale and Community Resource Management goes back more than 25 years and focuses on community-level governance and management in tropical developing countries where forests are crucial for economic development. Another interest is the economics of biosecurity and quarantine risk assessment where I am involved in incorporating economic criteria into what has normally been a biological decision-making process to ensure that quarantine measures do not become unjustified Non-Tariff Barriers. This has involved work with New Zealand government agencies, FAO, ASEAN and the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) as well as postgraduate students. With development of the Emissions Trading Scheme in New Zealand, I started research on forests as carbon sinks and markets for forest carbon. My research in sustainable resource management is largely around a series of forestry-related projects related to certification of sustainable management systems, and to trees as part of farming systems. In recent years my focus has turned to research management in a broad range of upstream and downstream agribusiness topics.
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY APPOINTMENTS
Dean, Faculty of Agribusiness and Commerce
Lincoln University, Lincoln, New Zealand2013 - present
DEGREES
PhD
The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Master of Arts
University of Alberta, Canada
Bachelor of Arts
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
FIELDS OF RESEARCH (2020)
Environment and resource economics
Natural resource management
