Archive for the 'Research projects' Category
Conservation industry: published article
Here is an article I recently co-authored with CSIRO researchers, entitled “A conservation industry for sustaining natural capital and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes’, which appear in the February 2010 issue of ‘Ecological Economics’. It is a broad survey of the literature pertaining the the conditions needed for a conservation industry to evolve. The abstract [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Monday, 8th Feb, 2010
Valuing catchment as assets
This research was conducted for SA Water over 2008-2009, out of the International Graduate School of Business, and the Sustainable Communities Innovation & Research Cluster of the University of South Australia. Its aim was to develop a framework for valuing catchments as assets. This becomes important in evaluating proposals for capital budgeting in water utilities. [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Wednesday, 8th Oct, 2008
Sustainable Farming Research
The objective of this research project was to develop a better understanding of landholder attitudes and values in the on-farm management of native vegetation. It was carried out for the SA Native Vegetation Council. Previous studies have used quantitative survey techniques, which I have criticised as providing only a superficial understanding of what landholders think [...]
Posted by: Geoff Wells on Friday, 25th May, 2007