Current Student Projects

Sanjeev Poudel

Supervisors: Fiona Dempster, Ram Pandit & Uttam Babu Shrestha

Yarsagumba complex: examining its determinants of collection and local communal management practice in Pupal pasture of Dhorpatan Hunting Reserve.

Yanyan Dong

Supervisors: Abbie Rogers and Michael Burton

A comparative study of destination choice behaviour between Australian and Chinese outbound tourists

Rizky Rahman

Supervisors: Chunbo Ma & Ben White

The Impact of Economic Growth on Environmental Quality in Indonesia.

Alfian Massagony

Supervisors: Ben White & Ram Pandit

Exploring energy policy and household energy consumption in Indonesia.

Alemken Jegnie

Supervisors: Sayed Iftekhar & James Fogarty

Urban Water Resource Management in Australia: A Critical Analysis of Water Utility Efficiency, Water Demand and Institutional Context.

Oscar Montes de Oca Munguia

Supervisor: David Pannell

Improving the forecasting of adoption in agriculture.

Chuanji Yong

Supervisors: David Pannell, Md Sayed Iftekhar, Abbie Rogers, James Watson and Josie Carwardine

The optimal level of uncertainty in costs and benefits of conservation decision making.

Tshering Samdrup

Supervisors: James Fogarty, Ram Pandit, Md. Sayed Iftekhar, and Kinlay Dorjee

Understanding the foreign direct investment, contract farming, and food security dynamics in developing countries

Marcela Del Carmen Vieira

Supervisors: Ben White, Fiona Dempster, Theodore Evans and Jacob Berson

The Economic Value Of Ecosystem Services Provided By Dung Beetles (Coleoptera: Scarabaeinae) to Australia.

Deepa Basnet

Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Abbie Rogers, Rajesh Kumar Rai

Stakeholder’s preferences for water quality improvement in the Phewa lake watershed, Nepal.

Pratikshya Kandel

PhD completed in 2024.

Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Maksym Polyakov & Ben White

Evaluating the Socio-economic and Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy (Buffer Zone Policy) in Nepal.

Curtis Rollins

PhD completed in 2024.

Supervisors: David Pannell & Michael Burton

Response anomalies in stated preference studies.

Jon Marx Sarmiento

PhD completed in 2024.

Supervisors: James Fogarty & Fay Rola-Rubzen

Prospects for participation of smallholder farmers in modern agribusiness value chains in Mindanao, Philippines.

Alaya Spencer-Cotton

PhD completed in 2023.

Supervisors: Marit Kragt & Michael Burton

Land use values for the rangelands of WA. The policy implications for social values in the Fitzroy River Catchment, Kimberley.

Asjad Tariq Sheikh

PhD completed in 2023.

Supervisors: Dr. Ram Pandit, Dr. Amin Mugera, Dr. Michael Burton and Dr. Stephen Davies

Essays on the Economics of Soil Quality: Crop Productivity, Adoption and Willingness to Accept for Land Restoration Programs in Pakistan’s Punjab.

Ken Wallace

PhD completed in 2022.

Supervisors: Milena Kim, David Pannell, & Abbie Rogers

Category Errors in Natural Resource Management Planning - Issues and Solutions.

Bibek Sapkota

PhD completed in 2021.

Supervisors: Michael Burton, Fay Rola-Rubzen and Roy Murray-Prior

Farmers' risk perceptions, attitudes and management strategies, and willingness to pay for crop insurance in Nepal.

Ari Rakatama

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Sayed Iftekhar & Chunbo Ma

Examining Implementation of REDD+ Projects in Indonesia from Economic Perspectives.

Johanna Zimmerhackel

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: David Pannell, Abbie Rogers, Marit Kragt 

Interactions of Diving Tourism and Fisheries in Marine Protected Areas: Market Values and New Approaches to Deter Illegal Fishing in the Maldives Shark Sanctuary

Khairunnisa Ahmad Kamil

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Ram Pandit, Atakelty Hailu & Abbie Rogers

(Thesis Topic)

Vandana Subroy

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Marit Kragt, David Pannell & Abbie Rogers

To fence or not to fence: Socio-economic considerations in feral predator management strategies for threatened species survivability

Thi Quynh Chi Nguyen

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Atakelty Hailu & Steven Schilizzi

Economic Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Territorial Use Rights for Fisheries (TUFRs) with common property: The case of Tam Giang Lagoon, Vietnam

Alison Wilson

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Marit Kragt & David Pannell

(Thesis Topic)

Toto Olita

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Sayed Iftekhar & Steven Schilizzi

Can insurance mechanisms enhance the attractiveness of conservation auctions?

Tafesse Estifanos

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: Maksym Polyakov, Ram Pandit & Atakelty Hailu

Ecosytem Services-Livelihood nexus in Ethiopian Protected Areas: Understanding the roles of socioeconomic values for Natural Resources Conservation

Matthew Navarro

PhD Completely in 2019.

Supervisors: Marit Kragt & Atakelty Hailu

Using bio-economic modelling to measure the impacts of no-take marine reserves on marine users in coastal Western Australia

Maria Jose Solis Aulestia

Completed 2019.

Supervisors: Maksym Polyakov & Ram Pandit

Understanding Land use dynamics in the Chure region of Nepal: Integrating biophysical, socio-economic and policy drivers

Sanaz Shoghi Kalkhoran

PhD Completed in 2019.

Supervisors: David Pannell, Maksym Polyakov & Ben White

Optimal agricultural lime and fertilizer applications: economic and environmental perspectives

Thayse Nery de Figueiredo

PhD Completed 2018.

Supervisors: Morteza Chalak, David Pannell, Rohan Sandler, Maksym Polyakov.  

Optimal land-use change to increase water quality, quantity and biodiversity outcomes

Louise Blackmore 

Supervisors: Steven Schilizzi, Sayed Iftekhar, Abbie Rogers, Kerri Wilson 

PhD Completed in 2018.

Trust relationships and collaborative private land conservation program design: Experimental insights

Andrew Kennedy

Supervisor: David Pannell

PhD Completed 2018.

Simulation and economic modelling of sheep systems

Tas Thamo

PhD Completed 2017.

Supervisors: David Pannell, Marit Kragt & Maksym Polyakov

Climate change in Western Australian agriculture: a bioeconomic and policy analysis

Veronique Florec

PhD Completed 2016.

Supervisors: David Pannell, Michael Burton

Economic analysis of prescribed burning in the south-west of Western Australia

Christine Kershaw

PhD Completed 2014.

Supervisor: David Pannell

Sonja Mennen

Masters Completed 2016.

Supervisor: James Fogarty and Sayed Iftekhar. 

The most cost-effective ways to maintain public open space with less water in Perth

Donkor Addai

PhD Completed 2013.

Supervisor: David Pannell

James Skurray

PhD Completed 2014.

Supervisor: David Pannell

Jessie Beltran

PhD Completed 2011.

Supervisor: David Pannell

Abbie Rogers

PhD Completed 2011.

Supervisor: Michael Burton & Atakelty Hailu

The policy relevance of choice modelling: an application to the Ningaloo and proposed Capes Marine Parks

Fiona Gibson

PhD Completed 2011.

Supervisor: 

Comparing economic and psychology approaches to understanding community acceptance of recycled wastewater: a case study in Perth, Western Australia

Bronwyn Crowe

PhD Completed 2010.

Supervisor: David Pannell

Graeme Doole

PhD Completed 2007.

Supervisor: David Pannell

Karen Barroga

PhD Completed 2009.

Supervisor: David Pannell