Members of EIANZ and the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES) are invited to an evening lecture with Professor Jeffrey Bennett from the Australian National University.

This is a free event for members of EIANZ and AARES. Non members pay only $10. EIANZ members and non members can register below. AARES members can register by sending an email to seq@eianz.org.

Prof Bennett will be talking about the book he edited last year "Protecting the Environment Privately".

Most volumes in the environmental economics literature consider the environment to be a public good and hence write out a role for the private sector in a source of supply. Yet there is ample evidence of the private sector being involved, driven both by profit and altruism. This book provides the necessary conceptual base for the inclusion of the private sector in the environmental protection supply equation and deliver an extensive set of examples in a wide range of contexts. In an economic climate where governments are attempting to reduce expenditures, the increased role for the private sector will be readily embraced by policy makers.

The aim of the book is to establish the principles of markets in the provision of environmental protection and to provide an extensive experience-based set of contexts in which the private sector has acted to enhance the supply of environmental goods and services. These contexts include both pure-private sector initiatives in terrestrial, aquatic and marine ecosystems and public-private sector ‘joint initiatives’ such as payment for environmental services (PES) schemes.

Jeff Bennett is Professor of Environmental Management at the Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University. He has over forty years experience researching, consulting and teaching in the fields of Environmental Economics, Natural Resource Economics, Agricultural Economics and Applied Micro-Economics. His current research interests focus on:

• the development and application of techniques to estimate the value of non-marketed environmental benefits and costs; and
• the analysis of alternative institutional structures that give private owners/managers of natural resources the incentive to provide environmental benefits.

Professor Bennett is a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society and was President of that Society in 2002. He is a member of the Academic Advisory Council of the Centre for Independent Studies and a Director of the Mont Pelerin Society.

Prof Bennett is one of the editorial board members for the Australian Journal of Environmental Management.

This event will count as 2 points towards your EIANZ CEnvP Professional Development Log

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