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

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