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Personal profile
Biography
- Australian diplomatic service (Department of Foreign Affairs)
- Office of National Assessments
- Department of Defence
- Department of the Treasury
- Department of Transport and Communications (telecommunications reform)
- Bureau of Transport Economics
- Ernst & Young
- Department of Transport and Regional Services
- College of Experts member, Australian Research Council, 2006 - 2008
- Chair, Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (Canberra, 2007-09)
- President Economic Society of the ACT (2012)
- Adjunct Associate Professor, Australian National University
Research interests
cost-benefit analysis
economics of adaptation to climate change
history of rail gauge unification
economics of waste management
costs and benefits of environentally friendly farm dams and shelter belts
Qualifications
BA (Hons), MA (Melb Uni), DPhil (Oxon)
Researcher's projects
- Cost Benefit Analysis of farm dams and shelter belts on Sustainable Farms
- economics of waste management
- Costs and benefits of standardising Australia’s railway gauges 1900 to 1950
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Projects
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Cost of road crashes in Australia
Lancsar, E., Bourke, S., Breunig, R., Dobes, L., Glass, K., Gordon, C., Gruen, R., Munira, L. & Steinhauser, R.
The Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Communications
1/06/21 → 12/08/22
Project: Research
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Harmony in diversity?: Intra-and inter-jurisdictional evaluation of projects and policies
Dobes, L. & Argyrous, G.
Australia and New Zealand School of Government
28/07/14 → 27/07/16
Project: Research
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The economics of government as insurer of last resort for climate change adaptation
National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility
16/01/12 → 28/03/13
Project: Research
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Defining Regional "Standing" for Cost-Benefit Analysis in Federated Countries
Dobes, L., 2019, In: Economic Papers. 38, 2, p. 156-166Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Improving Understanding of Flood Risk: the Effects of Lowering the Cost of Accessing Flood Risk Information
Doupe, P., Dobes, L. & Jotzo, F., 2019, In: Economics of Disasters and Climate Change. 3, p. 101-117Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Economic and Financing Aspects of Removing Asbestos in Residences
Dobes, L., 2018Research output: Book/Report › Commissioned report
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Making Facts and Telling Furphies with Economic Modelling: Cost-Benefit Analysis in the Post-Truth Era
Dobes, L., 2018, Hybrid Public Policy Innovations: Contemporary Policy Beyond Ideology. Mark Fabian and Robert Breunig (ed.). 1st edition ed. London: RoutledgeResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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The Oxford Handbook of Megaproject Management, by Bent Flyvbjerg (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2017), pp. 624
Dobes, L., 2018, In: Economic Record. 94, 304, p. 102-104ppResearch output: Contribution to journal › Article