Category: research
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Queensland moves to control land clearing: other states need to follow
This article was originally published in The Conversation, and features my new paper published in Pacific Conservation Biology Queensland’s land clearing has yet again become a national issue. After laws were relaxed under the Liberal-National State government in 2013, land clearing rates tripled, undermining efforts to conserve wildlife and reduce carbon emissions. Now the current…
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Speed symposium at #SCBO2016
The Society for Conservation Biology – Oceania section will have its next conference in Brisbane, July 2016. I’m very happy to say that a speed symposium that I have proposed with my incredible colleagues Claudia Benham and Nadine Marshall has been accepted! It was really encouraging to see quite a large social science presence at the…
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Clear consideration of costs, condition and conservation benefits yields better planning outcomes
I’ve recently had a paper published in Biological Conservation with colleagues from the University of Western Australia and University of Queensland, which has been featured on the CEED website. This work has been several years in the making, so it’s fantastic to see it finally out! Spatial conservation planning is all about figuring out how…
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Decision Point editorial: Offsetting in the context of policy
I’m very pleased to have my overview of our recent workshop highlighted as the lead editorial in the latest issue of Decision Point magazine. If you haven’t already read it, please check it out, as well as the many other articles discussing biodiversity offsetting featured in this month’s issue.
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The legal and institutional dimensions of biodiversity offsetting
This is Part 5 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. Read the previous entries: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 Over two days in January 2015, fifteen academics and professionals from law, economics, business, ecology and policy came together to discuss biodiversity offsetting – but…
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Assisted regeneration could make farmers money
Here is the media release for my recent paper in Environmental Science & Policy: http://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/assisted-regeneration-could-make-farmers-money Researchers have found that assisting vegetation to grow back naturally could be a far more profitable way for farmers to lock in carbon than the more commonly considered method of planting trees and shrubs. PhD researcher Megan Evans from The Australian…
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A framework to analyse the effectiveness of biodiversity offset policy
This is Part 4 of a series of posts outlining the research journey of my PhD so far. In this series of blog posts, I’ve introduced the motivation for my research topic, described the general range of approaches used to evaluate environmental policies, and have suggested some reasons as to why evaluation may not happen as…
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