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Dr Graham Marshall
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 Graham's research is concerned primarily with understanding socio-economic issues in collaborative natural resources management (NRM), and particularly on collaborative efforts depending on cooperation from farmers for their success. He is author of the book Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons (Earthscan 2005). He leads the project 'Improving economic accountability when using decentralised, collaborative approaches to environmental decisions', and recently completed the project 'Nesting community-based NRM for regional accountability and grassroots cooperation'.
Other research over the past decade includes: examination of factors affecting cooperation by irrigators in implementing district-scale NRM plans; a cross-disciplinary review of factors affecting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders; analysis of the transaction and abatement costs of carbon-sink projects; a case study of prospects for common property farming in rural Australia; review of issues in benefit-cost analysis of agricultural research projects; valuation of seasonal climate forecasts for broadacre farmers; valuation of agricultural productivity losses from irrigation salinity and waterlogging; institutional economic analysis of integrated catchment management; and review of economic principles relevant for designing cost-sharing arrangements for conservation activities on private agricultural land.
Graham received the 2003 PhD Research Award from the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society for his thesis Crafting cooperation in the commons: An economic analysis of prospects for collaborative environmental governance.
Recent Projects
Nesting community-based NRM for regional accountability and grassroots cooperation
Linking Smallholders and Agribusiness: Social Capital and Rural Development in Eastern Indonesia (with Dr Ian Patrick)
Improving Economic Accountability when using Decentralised, Collaborative Approaches to Environmental Decisions
Recent Book
Economics for Collaborative Environmental Management: Renegotiating the Commons
Recent Book Chapters
Brunckhorst, D.J. and Marshall, G.R., 2007. 'Designing robust common property regimes for collaboration towards rural sustainability', in: A. Smajgl and S. Larson (eds), Sustainable Resource Use: Institutional Dynamics and Economics, Earthscan, London, pp. 179-207.
Marshall, G.R., 2009. 'Can community-based NRM work at the scale of large regions: Exploring the roles of nesting and subsidiarity', in M.B. Lane, C. Robinson and B. Taylor (eds), Contested Country: Local and Regional Natural Resources Management in Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, pp. 43-58.
Marshall, G.R., in press. 'Governance for a surprising world', in S. Cork (ed.), Resilience and Transformation: Preparing Australia for Uncertain Futures, CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne.
Recent Articles
Marshall, G.R. 2004. ‘From words to deeds: Enforcing farmers’ conservation cost-sharing agreements’, Journal of Rural Studies, 20(2), 157-167.
Marshall, G.R., 2004., ‘Farmers cooperating in the commons? A study of collective action in salinity management’, Ecological Economics, 51(3-4), 271-286.
Cacho, O.J., Marshall, G.R. and Milne, M., 2005. ‘Transaction and abatement costs of carbon-sink projects in developing countries’, Environment and Development Economics, 10(5), 1-18.
Marshall, G.R., Fritsch, S.J. and Dulhunty, R.V., 2005. 'Catalyzing common property farming for rural sustainability: Lessons from the Furracabad Valley', Australian Agribusiness Review, 13, paper 17.
Pannell, D.J., Marshall, G.R., Barr, N., Curtis, A., Vanclay, F. and Wilkinson, R., 2006. 'Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders', Australian Journal of Experimental Agriculture, 46(11), 1407-1424.
Marshall, G.R., 2008. 'Nesting, subsidiarity and community-based environmental governance beyond the local level', International Journal of the Commons, 2(1), 75-97.
[online: http://www.thecommonsjournal.org/index.php/ijc/article/viewFile/50/19]
Marshall, G.R. 2009. 'Polycentricity, reciprocity, and farmer adoption of conservation practices under community-based governance.' Ecological Economics, 68 (5),1507-20.
Marshall, G.R., 2009. What does 'community' mean for farmer adoption of conservation practices? Some logic and evidence. IRF Occasional Paper 2009/01, Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale.
Marshall, G.R., 2009. 'Climate change, economics and hope. A comment on Geoffrey Brennan's 'Climate change: A rational choice politics view'', IRF Occasional Paper 2009/02, Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale.
Recent Reports
Reeve, I., Marshall, G. and Musgrave, W., 2002. Resource governance and integrated catchment management, Issues Paper No. 2 for Murray-Darling Basin Commission Project MP2004 'Agriculture and Natural Resource Management in the Murray-Darling Basin: A Policy History and Analysis', Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
Marshall, G.R., 2008. Community-based, regional delivery of natural resource management: Building system-wide capacities to motivate voluntary farmer adoption of conservation practices, RIRDC Publication No 08/175, Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, Canberra.
Marshall, G.R., McNeill, J.M. and Reeve, I.J., 2009. Economics for accountability in community-based environmental governance. Working paper 2 from the project 'Improving economic accountability when using decentralised, collaborative approaches to environmental decisions', Institute for Rural Futures, University of New England, Armidale, Australia.
PhD Thesis
Crafting cooperation in the commons: An economic analysis of prospects for collaborative environmental governance
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