The INFFER Team

Core Team

David Pannell (home page)

University of Western Australia
08 6488 4735
David.Pannell@uwa.edu.au

Anna Roberts (formerly Anna Ridley)

Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
02 6030 4581
Anna.Roberts@dpi.vic.gov.au

Geoff Park

North Central Catchment Management Authority
0418 138 632
geoff.park@nccma.vic.gov.au

Jennifer Alexander

Department of Primary Industries, Victoria
03 5430 4345
jennifer.alexander@dpi.vic.gov.au

Broader Project Team

In addition to the above front-line team, there is also a back-room team doing research aimed at improving future versions of INFFER, doing evaluation, or providing admin support. The project team comes from three organisations:

The University of Western Australia

David Pannell^1,2, Maksym Polyakov², Morteza Chalak², Graeme Doole², Caroline Mitchell³, (past team member: Sally Marsh^2,3)

Department of Primary Industries, Victoria

Anna Roberts^1,2, Jenny Alexander¹, Alexei Rowles², Olga Vigiak², Glenn Morrison³, (past team member: April Curatolo¹)

North Central Catchment Management Authority

Geoff Park¹

Several of us (Pannell, Roberts, Park, Rowles) have also been affiliated with the Future Farm Industries CRC, which is a key partner in the project.

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¹Delivery, ²Research, ³Support

“There is strong interest in INFFER being shown in Canada. Traditional benefit-cost analysis is time consuming and requires specialized skills, and thus is rarely undertaken. INFFER thus fills a much needed gap. It provides a rigorous framework for analysis, while being relatively easy to undertake and to understand.”

Professor Murray Fulton, University of Saskatchewan

News

INFFER makes a strong showing at AARES

Members of the INFFER team have just enjoyed a terrific conference in Fremantle. The 56th Annual AARES (Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society) conference brings together a diverse range of people who share an interest in agricultural, resource and environmental economics. At this years event the INFFER project featured in a number of presentations ranging [...]

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Agriculture and environment trade-offs in the Gippsland Lakes.

A new paper on agriculture and environment trade-offs by INFFER team members Anna Roberts and David Pannell, together with Graeme Doole (University of Waikato) and Olga Vigiak (DPI, Victoria) is now available in the journal Agricultural Systems. Entitled “Agricultural land management strategies to reduce phosphorus loads in the Gippsland Lakes, Australia”, the paper provides a fascinating [...]

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