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Biography
R. Quentin Grafton is an Australian Laureate Fellow, Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA) and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (GAICD). He is Professor of Economics, Convenor of the Water Justice Hub and Director of the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy (CWEEP) at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at the Australian National University (ANU). He is also the Chairholder, the Australian National University-UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance.
He previously served as the inaugural Chief Economist and Executive Director of the Australian Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (2011-2013) and as the President of the Australasian Agricultural and Resources Economics Society (AARES) in 2017-18. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Policy Forum.net, the Director of the Food, Energy, Environment and Water (FE2W) Network, which he helped establish, and the Convener of the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security. He also convenes the Water Justice Hub.
He has published over 160 scholarly peer-reviewed articles, including in some of the world's leading journals in economics and the life sciences (such as Science three times), 40 + chapters in books, 10 edited books and seven authored books including: Risks, Rewards and Regulation of Unconventional Gas (2017, Cambridge University Press), Water Resources Planning and Management (2011, Cambridge University Press), Handbook of Marine Fisheries Conservation and Management (2010, Oxford University Press).
He has served in numerous advisory roles and expert panels in Australia and overseas. He served as Chair of the Marine Estate Expert Knowledge Panel for New South Wales (2014-18), Chair of the International Expert Group on Geothermal Energy (2013-14) and Chair of the Social and Economics Reference Panel of the Murray-Darling Basin Commission (2008-2009).
Research interests
- Water justice
- Food, Energy, Water nexus
- Resilience and risk
- Urban water pricing
- Energy security
- Gas markets and regulation
- Water markets and water economics
- Social capital and network theory
- Fisheries management (especially marine reserves)
- Property rights (especially quantitative instruments in resource and environmental management)
Current student projects
Current PhD students
- Albert Lamberte
- Khanh Hoang
- Chloe Burns
Researcher's projects
- Responding to risks and managing for resilience
- Food and water gaps
- Economics costs at water restrictions
- Human-induced impact on water scarcity
- Optimal investment in water supply
- Marine reserve and ecological uncertainty
- Social networks and productivity
- Social capital and environmental performance
- Efficiency measures in fisheries
Qualifications
Expertise Areas
- Environmental Management
- Natural Resource Management
- Fisheries Management
- Simulation and Modelling
- Agricultural Economics
- Environment and Resource Economics
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Healthy Environments And Lives (HEAL) - National Research Network on Human Health and Environmental Change
Vardoulakis, S., Barratt, A. L., Bentley, R., Blakely, A., Bolan, N., Bowman, D. M. J. S., Bradshaw, C., Butt, A., Cass, A., Chu, C., Donner, E., Eades, S., Farrant, B., Feng, X., Ford, L., Grafton, Q., Hanigan, I., Hansbro, P., Howden, M., Hu, W., Ivers, R., Jalaludin, B. B., Johnston, F., Kickett, M., Kiem, A. S., Knibbs, L., Kompas, T., Lau, C. L., Le Souef, P., MacIntyre, C. R., Marks, G., Matthews, V., Mengersen, K., Morawska, L., Morgan, G., Norman, R., Osborne, N., Phillips, C., Rajagopalan, P., Rychetnik, L., Santamouris, M., Wakerman, J., Walker, I., Ward, J., Williams, C. & Wyrwoll, C.
National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC)
1/11/21 → 31/10/26
Project: Research
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Improving policies and institutions for sustainable intensification of agriculture and resilient food systems in the Eastern Indo-Gangetic Plains
Grafton, Q. & Williams, J.
Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs&Trade, Australian Cnt for International Agricultural Res(ACIAR)
15/08/16 → 15/08/17
Project: Research
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Coal Transitions
Jotzo, F., Anjum, Z., Edwards, T., Gleeson, B., Grafton, Q., Green, F., Phillips, B. & Wiseman, J.
Institute for Sustainable Development and International Relations (IDDRI)
1/06/16 → 31/12/18
Project: Research
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Increasing irrigation water productivity in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe through on-farm monitoring, adaptive management and Innovation Platforms
Pittock, J., Annandale, J. G., Bjornlund, H., Grafton, Q., Mdemu, M., Munguambe, P., Nyamangara, J., Stirzaker, R. & Sullivan, A.
Commonwealth Dept of Foreign Affairs&Trade, Australian Cnt for International Agricultural Res(ACIAR)
15/06/13 → 15/06/17
Project: Research
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Cross-country effects and policy responses to COVID-19 in 2020: The Nordic countries
Gordon, D., Grafton, Q. & Steinshamn, S. I., 2021, In: Economic Analysis and Policy. 71, p. 198-210Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Efficacy, equity, and Australia’s vaccine rollout
Kenny, M., Friel, S. & Grafton, Q., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Democracy Sausage with Mark Kenny: Risks and rewards - improving Australia’s vaccine rollout
Kenny, M., Smart, T. & Grafton, Q., 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products
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Do fires discriminate? Socio-economic disadvantage, wildfire hazard exposure and the Australian 2019-20 'Black Summer' fires
Akter, S. & Grafton, Q., 2021, In: Climatic Change. 165, 3-4, p. 21Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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Dynamic water pricing and the risk adjusted user cost (RAUC)
Chu, L. & Grafton, Q., 2021, In: Water Resources and Economics. 35, p. 100181Research output: Contribution to journal › Article