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  • 2019 - Australian Laureate Fellow

Overview

R. Quentin Grafton is affiliated with the Australian National University in Australia and focuses primarily on environmental science. Their research covers a range of subfields including global and planetary change, economics and econometrics, modeling and simulation, ocean engineering, and water science and technology.

The scientist's work addresses several key topics, particularly those related to the COVID-19 pandemic and water resource management. These main topics include:

  • COVID-19 epidemiological studies
  • Water resources management and optimization
  • COVID-19 pandemic impacts
  • Water-Energy-Food nexus studies
  • Water governance and infrastructure
  • Data-driven disease surveillance
  • Flood risk assessment and management

R. Quentin Grafton has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, notable among them:

  • Tom Kompas (19 joint publications)
  • Long Chu (18 joint publications)
  • Paul R. Wyrwoll (10 joint publications)
  • Ana Manero (7 joint publications)
  • Steven J. Phipps (5 joint publications)

The scientist's recent papers illustrate the interdisciplinary nature of their research. Some key publications include:

  • Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future, 2023, Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
  • Operationalizing marketable blue carbon, 2022, One Earth
  • Response and resilience of Asian agrifood systems to COVID-19: An assessment across twenty-five countries and four regional farming and food systems, 2021, Agricultural Systems
  • Robust estimates of the true (population) infection rate for COVID-19: a backcasting approach, 2020, Royal Society Open Science
  • Measuring the gaps in drinking water quality and policy across regional and remote Australia, 2022, npj Clean Water

R. Quentin Grafton has contributed frequently to several publication venues, including:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Economic Analysis and Policy
  • International Journal of Water Resources Development
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

In 2019, R. Quentin Grafton was awarded the Australian Laureate Fellowship.

Best Publications

  • Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries

    R. Quentin Grafton;Ragnar Arnason;Trond Bjørndal;David Campbell

  • Private Property and Economic Efficiency: A Study of a Common‐Pool Resource*

    R. Quentin Grafton;Dale Squires;Kevin J. Fox

  • Individual transferable quotas: theory and practice

    R. Quentin Grafton

  • Economics of overexploitation revisited.

    R. Q. Grafton;T. Kompas;R. W. Hilborn

  • Social capital and fisheries governance

    R. Quentin Grafton

  • Determinants of residential water consumption: Evidence and analysis from a 10-country household survey

    R Quentin Grafton;Michael Ward;Hang To;Thomas Kompas

  • An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: A Cross-Country Comparison

    R Quentin Grafton;Gary Libecap;Samuel McGlennon;Clay Landry

  • Special Report on Emissions Scenarios (SRES)

    R. Quentin Grafton;Harry W. Nelson;N. Ross Lambie;Paul R. Wyrwoll

  • Individual transferable quotas in multispecies fisheries

    Dale Squires;Harry Campbell;Stephen Cunningham;Christopher Dewees

  • The economics of the environment and natural resources

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  • Valuing water for sustainable development

    Dustin E. Garrick;Jim W. Hall;Andrew P. Dobson;Richard Damania

  • Prices versus rationing: Marshallian surplus and mandatory water restrictions

    R. Quentin Grafton;Michael B. Ward

  • SOCIAL CAPITAL AND NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE: A CROSS-SECTIONAL ANALYSIS

    R. Quentin Grafton;Stephen Knowles

  • Adaptation to Climate Change in Marine Capture Fisheries

    R. Quentin Grafton

  • Realizing resilience for decision-making

    R. Quentin Grafton;Luc Doyen;Christophe Béné;Edoardo Borgomeo

  • Economics of Water Recovery in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia

    R. Quentin Grafton;R. Quentin Grafton;Sarah Ann Wheeler

  • Responding to the ‘Wicked Problem’ of Water Insecurity

    R. Quentin Grafton;R. Quentin Grafton

  • Towards food security by 2050

    R. Quentin Grafton;Carsten Daugbjerg;M. Ejaz Qureshi

  • Capacity utilization measures and excess capacity in multi-product privatized fisheries

    Diane P. Dupont;R.Quentin Grafton;James Kirkley;Dale Squires

  • Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)

    R. Quentin Grafton;Harry W. Nelson;N. Ross Lambie;Paul R. Wyrwoll

  • Handbook of marine fisheries conservation and management

    Quentin Grafton;Ray Hilborn;Dale Squires;Maree Tait

  • Water resources planning and management

    R. Quentin Grafton;Karen Hussey

  • Determinants of Residential Water Consumption: Evidence and Analysis from a Ten-Country Household Survey

    R. Quentin Grafton;Tom Kompas;Michael B. Ward;Hang To

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Kompas
Tom Kompas University of Melbourne
Dale Squires
Dale Squires University of California, San Diego
Gary D. Libecap
Gary D. Libecap University of California, Santa Barbara
Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Wiktor L. Adamowicz University of Alberta
Ngo Van Long
Ngo Van Long McGill University
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Sean Pascoe
Sean Pascoe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Claudia Ringler
Claudia Ringler International Food Policy Research Institute
Xunpeng Shi
Xunpeng Shi University of Technology Sydney
Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh

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