Tyron Venn

I am a natural resource economist with a research focus on the design and evaluation of resource and environmental policy and practice to facilitate global action to conserve biodiversity, mitigate climate risk and address United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. This requires quantification of the complex and sometimes perverse domestic and international carbon, biodiversity and socio-economic trade-offs (including leakages) that can be associated with well-intentioned policy.

My research is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative with colleagues at UQ and elsewhere in academia, government and industry, including ecologists, agricultural scientists, engineers and social scientists. The research methods I employ include stratified and replicated field experiments, cost-benefit analysis, lifecycle analysis of carbon, mathematical programming, simulation and applied environmental economics including non-market valuation.

Specific contexts in which I have evaluated the socio-economic, carbon and biodiversity conservation performance of management and policy include:

• Australian Indigenous agribusiness;
• Forest and wood product value chains in Australia, the United States, Fiji and the Philippines;
• Silvopastoral system value chains in Australia and Fiji;
• Wildfire risk mitigation in Australia and the United States;
• Invasive species management in Australia and the United States; and
• Biomass energy in the United States.