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Professor Natalie Stoeckl

Natalie Stoeckl

BEc (ANU) MEc (JCU) PhD (ANU)

Tropical Leader - Economics

Professor

Townsville

Contact Details

Telephone:

(07) 4781 4868 (Australia)

+ 61 7 4781 4868 (International)

Facsimile:

(07) 4781 4019 (Australia)

+ 61 7 4781 4019 (International)

Email:

natalie.stoeckl@jcu.edu.au

Publications (from Research Online)

Archived Publications (as of 19 February 2013)

General interest areas

I have an established track record of collaborative research that is both cross-disciplinary and cross institutional – focusing primarily on economic aspects of environmental and natural resource management in regional areas and/or within Indigenous communities. Particular areas of interest include:

  • Environmental economics and non-market valuation techniques

  • Natural resource economics / management

  • Regional economics

  • Indigenous economies

  • Tourism economics

Some examples of projects that I have worked on recently (with colleagues from JCU, CSIRO and CDU) are: an exploration of the importance of the social and cultural values associated with Australia’s Tropical rivers (compared to commercial and biodiversity values); an empirical investigation of the link between Indigenous and non-Indigenous economic systems in Northern Australia; an assessment of socio-economic activity and water use in Northern Australia; an empirical assessment of the social and economic values of key marine species in the Great Barrier Reef to the tourism industry and the Far North Queensland economy.

Current projects

I am currently working on several projects, including:

  1. Improving the efficiency of Biodiversity Investment (Collaborators include Dr Taha Chaiechi and Michelle Esparon; also working in close collaboration with Professor Bob Pressey from the ARC Centre of Excellence and other members of the Tropical Rivers and Coastal Knowledge (TRaCK) research hub.Funded by the Northern Australia Hub of the National Environmental Research Program (NAH NERP)).

  2. Exploring the importance of social and economic values associated with the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area (Led in conjunction with Dr Silva Larson; other collaborators include: Dr Emma Gyuris and Michelle Esparon. Funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystems Hub of the National Environmental Research Program (TE NERP

  3. Socio-economic systems and reef resilience (Led in conjunction with Dr Silva Larson, A/Prof Jon Brodie, Prof Bruce Prideaux; other collaborators include:Prof Robert Costanza, Dr Ida Kubiszewski, Dr Taha Chaiechi, Dr Renae Tobin, Dr Steven Lewis, Dr Margaret Gooch, and Michelle Esparon.Funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystems Hub of the National Environmental Research Program (TE NERP)).

  4. The Sharing of Dugong and Turtle Meat by Torres Strait Islanders: Management Strategies and Options (Led in conjunction with Prof Helene Marsh and Dr Felecia Watkin-Lui; other collaborator includes Aurelie Delisle.Funded by the Australian Marine Mammal Centre (AMMC) and the National Environmental Research Program).

  5. Assessing Sustainability (New Professor’s Grant).

  6. Enhancing District Delivery and Management of Agriculture Extension in Lao PDR (Project is led by Prof Peter Case, other collaborators include: John O’Connell, Dr Simon Foal, Somxay Sisanonh, Kampouvieng Phouisombath.Funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)).

I am also involved in 11 other research projects, through my involvement with post-graduate research students (listed below).

Short biography

I was born in the U.S.A (Boulder Colorado), but went to school in the U.S., New Zealand, the U.K. and Australia. After completing high school (in Canberra), I went ´walkabout´ - spending several years on a Prawn Trawler, travelling with a circus, and helping run a small silvicultural contracting business. I then started University at ANU – and found that I thoroughly enjoyed economics. Three degrees (and many research projects) later, I still enjoy economics, I like learning about new developments in the field, I like teaching it, and I like using it in research projects that seek to help improve the lives and livelihoods of people in rural and regional areas. My professional career includes almost 20 years in academia (eight and a half years at the University of Canberra, and the rest at JCU) and almost three years as a researcher with the CSIRO.

Research Supervisions

CURRENT PhD Supervisions

  • Marina Farr (Principal Supervisor) – The marginal value of key marine species to the tourism and fishing sectors in the Great Barrier Reef. (Co-supervised by Dr Steve Sutton, School of Earth Sciences)

  • Diana Castorina (Principal Supervisor) – Determinants of Skilled Labour Migration in the Tropics (co-supervised by Dr Riccardo Welters)

  • Zulgerel Altai (Principal Supervisor) – Urban water demand management in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (Co-supervised by A/Prof David King, School of Earth Sciences)

  • Michelle Esparon (Principal Supervisor) – Social, Economic and Ecological impact of terrestrial tour operators in the wet tropics. (Co-supervised by A/Prof Peter Valentine and Dr Emma Gyuris, School of Earth Sciences)

  • Melissa Boss (Principal supervisor) - Stakeholder Values of Coral Reef Goods and Services in the Great Barrier Reef, Australia and the Main Hawaiian Islands (co-supervised by Professor Bob Pressey, ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies)

  • Diane Jarvis (Principal supervisor) - Designing better systems for assessing the economic and social impacts of natural resource exploitation: a case study of mining within the Great Barrier Reef Region (Co-supervised by Dr Taha Chaiechi and Dr Hongbo Lui)

  • Cheryl Fernandez (Co-supervisor) - The impact of Marine Protected Areas on well-being and livelihoods in the Philippines (Principal supervisor – Riccardo Welters)

  • Aliferiti Tawake (Associate Supervisor) – Adaptive c-management of hand collectable fisheries in the Torres Strait Islands: Testing the livelihood benefits of community based management. (Principal Supervisor is James Butler, CSIRO; other supervisors include Prof Helene Marsh, School of Earth Sciences, and Dr Simon Foale, School of Arts Education and Social Sciences)

  • Christine Hicks (Associate Supervisor) - The interplay between economic values and societal settings in coral reef governance. (Principal Supervisor is Prof Terry Hughes and Dr Joshua Cinner, ARC Centre for Excellence in Coral Reef Studies)

  • Judi Lowe (Associate supervisor) Dive tourism, alternate livelihoods and the management of marine protected areas in the Coral Triangle (principal supervisor - Prof Bob Pressey, ARC COE).

CURRENT Masters by Research Supervisions

  • Adriana Chacon (Principal Supervisor) – Valuation of the economic and social impact of the marine protected areas: a case study of Costa Rica (Co-supervisor - Prof Bob Pressey, ARC COE)