John Quiggin – Climate change and coral reefs: adaptation, offsets and resilience

Presentation given at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies 2009 symposium “Securing Coral reef futures”.

Bio:


Professor John Quiggin is an ARC Federation Fellow in Economics and Political Science at the University of Queensland and is prominent both as a research economist and as a commentator on Australian economic policy. He has published over 750 research articles, books and reports in fields including risk analysis, production economics, and environmental economics. He has also written on policy topics including unemployment policy, micro-economic reform, privatisation, competitive tendering, and sustainable management of the Murray-Darling system. He was awarded the Thomson ISI Australian Citation Laureate for Economics in 2004. He is a Fellow of the Australian Social Science Academy, the American Agricultural Economics Association, and the Australian Institute of Company Directors, and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.