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Overview

David J. Pannell is affiliated with the University of Western Australia in Australia. Their research spans several fields, primarily Environmental Science and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with notable contributions to subfields including Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Plant Science.

Their work focuses on topics such as Economic and Environmental Valuation, Land Use and Ecosystem Services, Agricultural Innovations and Practices, Urban Green Space and Health, Organic Food and Agriculture, COVID-19 epidemiological studies, and Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Pannell include:

  • The Roles of Adoption and Behavior Change in Agricultural Policy, 2020, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Understanding the Adoption of Innovations in Agriculture: A Review of Selected Conceptual Models, 2021, Agronomy
  • Harnessing multiple models for outbreak management, 2020, Science
  • Agricultural Adoption and Behavioral Economics: Bridging the Gap, 2020, Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Resilience achieved via multiple compensating subsystems: The immediate impacts of COVID-19 control measures on the agri-food systems of Australia and New Zealand, 2020, Agricultural Systems

Pannell frequently collaborates with other researchers. Notable co-authors include:

  • Michael Burton
  • C. Döll
  • Curtis Rollins
  • Philip G. Pardey
  • Milena Kiatkoski Kim

Their research has been published predominantly in venues such as:

  • AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA)
  • Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal

In addition to articles, Pannell has contributed to book publications, particularly with the World Bank, Washington, DC eBooks. Significant works include:

  • Valuing the Benefits of Nature-Based Solutions, 2021
  • The Gray, Green, Blue Continuum: Valuing the Benefit of Nature-Based Solutions for Integrated Urban Flood Management in China, 2021

Best Publications

  • Understanding and promoting adoption of conservation practices by rural landholders

    David Pannell;Graham Marshall;Neil Barr;Allan Curtis

  • The economics of risk, uncertainty and learning in the adoption of new agricultural technologies: where are we on the learning curve?

    Michele Marra;David J Pannell;Amir Abadi Ghadim

  • Sensitivity analysis of normative economic models: theoretical framework and practical strategies

    David J. Pannell

  • A conceptual framework of adoption of an agricultural innovation

    Amir K. Abadi Ghadim;David J. Pannell

  • Risk, uncertainty and learning in adoption of a crop innovation

    Amir K. Abadi Ghadim;David J. Pannell;Michael P. Burton

  • Public Benefits, Private Benefits, and Policy Mechanism Choice for Land-Use Change for Environmental Benefits

    David J. Pannell

  • Predicting farmer uptake of new agricultural practices: a tool for research, extension and policy.

    Geoff Kuehne;Rick Llewellyn;David Pannell;Roger Wilkinson

  • Opportunities and Challenges for Big Data in Agricultural and Environmental Analysis

    Alfons Weersink;Evan Fraser;David Pannell;Emily Duncan

  • The farm-level economics of conservation agriculture for resource-poor farmers

    David J. Pannell;Rick S. Llewellyn;Marc Corbeels

  • Socio-economic value and community benefits from shark-diving tourism in Palau: A sustainable use of reef shark populations

    G. M. S. Vianna;G. M. S. Vianna;Mark Meekan;David Pannell;Sally Marsh

  • A framework for the economic evaluation and selection of sustainability indicators in agriculture

    David J Pannell;Nicole A Glenn

  • Are we risking too much? Perspectives on risk in farm modelling

    David J. Pannell;Bill Malcolm;Ross S. Kingwell

  • Climate change and loss, as if people mattered: values, places, and experiences

    Petra Tschakert;Jon Barnett;Neville Ellis;Carmen Lawrence

  • Social and economic challenges in the development of complex farming systems

    David Pannell

  • Agricultural extension policy in Australia: the good, the bad and the misguided

    Sally P. Marsh;David J. Pannell

  • Flat Earth Economics: The Far-reaching Consequences of Flat Payoff Functions in Economic Decision Making

    David J. Pannell

  • Managing secondary dryland salinity: Options and challenges

    David J. Pannell;Michael A. Ewing

  • Havens for threatened Australian mammals: the contributions of fenced areas and offshore islands to the protection of mammal species susceptible to introduced predators

    Sarah Legge;Sarah Legge;John C. Z. Woinarski;Andrew A. Burbidge;Russell Palmer

  • RIM: a bioeconomic model for integrated weed management of Lolium rigidum in Western Australia

    David J. Pannell;Vanessa Stewart;Anne Bennett;Marta Monjardino

  • Dryland salinity: economic, scientific, social and policy dimensions

    David J. Pannell

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen B. Powles
Stephen B. Powles University of Western Australia
Michael Burton
Michael Burton University of Western Australia
Alfons Weersink
Alfons Weersink University of Guelph
Mark G. Meekan
Mark G. Meekan Australian Institute of Marine Science
Allan Curtis
Allan Curtis Charles Sturt University
Jessica J. Meeuwig
Jessica J. Meeuwig University of Western Australia
Eve McDonald-Madden
Eve McDonald-Madden University of Queensland
Philip G. Pardey
Philip G. Pardey University of Minnesota
Richard J. Hobbs
Richard J. Hobbs University of Western Australia
John Rolfe
John Rolfe Central Queensland University

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