Visiting Fellow, ICAM

Integrated assessment, bioeconomic modelling, environmental economics and policy

Phone: +61 (0)2 6247 3493

Email: nhall@effect.net.au

Dr Hall is a natural resource economist specialising in natural resource issues with 30 years’ experience as a researcher and research manager, in ABARE, as a Consultant and at ANU. He has experience in research planning and management, policy analysis and in the modelling of bio-economic systems in collaboration with agronomists, hydrologists and other scientists.

Dr Hall grew up on a farm in Northumberland and studied agricultural science before specialising in economics at Newcastle University. He followed this with a postgraduate year at Oxford studying Agricultural Economics under Colin Clark. After working some years with the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, he was awarded a Public Service Board Scholarship to undertake a PhD at Newcastle University. On completion of the doctorate, he returned to Australia and the BAE. BAE and its successor ABARE have been key government research institutions influencing Australian Federal Government policies in agriculture and natural resources.

Professional Activities

Current research interests include modelling the economics of water and salt management in Australia and overseas and the economics of greenhouse gas abatement through agricultural change.

Recent work includes:

Consultations for the iCAM/University of Tasmania Landscape Logic project in Victoria and Tasmania and contributions to work on water values in the Burdekin catchment.

Selected Publications

Greiner, R. and Hall, N. (2006). Social, Economic, Cultural and Environmental Values of Streams and Wetlands in the Burdekin Dry Tropics Region. Burdekin Dry Tropics NRM: Townsville. 107pp.

Hall, N., S. Yongvanit, R. Lertsirivorakul, R. Last, A. Yuvaniyama, Y. Anuluxtipun, W. Milne-Home and R. Greiner. (2006). Changing land use to manage salinity in northeast Thailand. Pages 292-301 in K-C. Goh and S. Yongvanit, editors. Change and Development in Southeast Asia in an era of Globalisation. Pearson South Asia Education Pty Ltd, Singapore

Hall, N., Oliver, M., Jakeman, T., Nicholson, A. and Watson. B. (2004). Land Use change for Salinity Management: A Participatory Model. In Proceedings of the International Environmental Modelling and Software Society Conference, Osnabrueck.

Hall, N.H., (2001) ‘Linear and quadratic models of the southern Murray-Darling basin’, Environment International, 27, 219-23

Dunlop, M, Hall, N, Watson, W, Gordon, L and Foran, B, (2001) Water use in Australia, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Canberra