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Tom Kompas is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research spans multiple disciplines within environmental and biological sciences, focusing predominantly on environmental science and agricultural and biological sciences.

Their work includes notable contributions in several subfields such as economics and econometrics, global and planetary change, ecology, modeling and simulation, and ecology, evolution, behavior, and systematics.

Kompas's research primarily addresses topics including COVID-19 epidemiological studies, forest insect ecology and management, economic and environmental valuation, COVID-19 pandemic impacts, animal disease management and epidemiology, climate change policy and economics, and data-driven disease surveillance.

The scientist has published extensively across a variety of venues. Frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), SSRN Electronic Journal, Scientific Reports, and Ecological Applications.

Tom Kompas is a frequent collaborator with several researchers, including R. Quentin Grafton, Long Chu, Pham Van Ha, Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen, and James Camac.

Recent papers by Tom Kompas include:

  • Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity, 2024, Scientific Reports
  • Assessing the coastal protection services of natural mangrove forests and artificial rock revetments, 2022, Ecosystem Services
  • Pluralistic discounting recognizing different capital contributions: An example estimating the net present value of global ecosystem services, 2021, Ecological Economics
  • Integrated perspective on translating biophysical to economic impacts of climate change, 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • Robust estimates of the true (population) infection rate for COVID-19: a backcasting approach, 2020, Royal Society Open Science

Best Publications

  • Incentive-based approaches to sustainable fisheries

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

  • Economics of overexploitation revisited.

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

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

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

  • The Effects of Climate Change on GDP by Country and the Global Economic Gains From Complying With the Paris Climate Accord

    Tom Kompas;Tom Kompas;Van Ha Pham;Tuong Nhu Che

  • On implementing maximum economic yield in commercial fisheries

    C. M. Dichmont;S. Pascoe;T. Kompas;A. E. Punt

  • Realizing resilience for decision-making

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

  • Substitution between biofuels and fossil fuels: is there a green paradox?

    R Quentin Grafton;Thomas Kompas;Ngo Van Long

  • Technical efficiency effects of input controls: evidence from Australia's banana prawn fishery

    Thomas Kompas;Tuong Nhu Che;Quentin Grafton

  • On the Fixed-Effects Vector Decomposition

    Trevor Breusch;Michael B. Ward;Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen;Tom Kompas

  • Uncertainty and the active adaptive management of marine reserves

    R. Quentin Grafton;Tom Kompas;Tom Kompas

  • Beyond biological performance measures in management strategy evaluation: Bringing in economics and the effects of trawling on the benthos

    C.M. Dichmont;A. Deng;A.E. Punt;A.E. Punt;N. Ellis

  • Technology choice and efficiency on Australian dairy farms

    Thomas Kompas;Tuong Nhu Che

  • Institutions matter: The case of Vietnam

    Thi Bich Tran;R. Quentin Grafton;Tom Kompas;Tom Kompas

  • Economics for Fisheries Management

    R Quentin Grafton;James E Kirkley;Thomas Kompas;Dale Squires

  • Marine reserves with ecological uncertainty.

    R Quentin Grafton;Thomas Kompas;Thomas Kompas;David Lindenmayer

  • Optimal dynamic water allocation: Irrigation extractions and environmental tradeoffs in the Murray River, Australia

    R. Quentin Grafton;Hoang Long Chu;Michael Stewardson;Tom Kompas

  • Benchmarking for fisheries governance

    R Quentin Grafton;Thomas Kompas;Thomas Kompas;Richard McLoughlin;Nick Rayns

  • Positioning Fisheries in a Changing World

    R. Quentin Grafton;Ray Hilborn;Lori Ridgeway;Dale Squires

  • Firm Efficiency in a Transitional Economy: Evidence from Vietnam

    Thi Bich Tran;R. Quentin Grafton;Tom Kompas;Tom Kompas

  • Maximizing profits and conserving stocks in the Australian Northern Prawn Fishery

    Tom Kompas;Cathy M. Dichmont;André E. Punt;A. Deng

  • Productivity, Net Returns, and Efficiency: Land and Market Reform in Vietnamese Rice Production

    Tom Kompas;Tuong Nhu Che;Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen;Ha Quang Nguyen

  • 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

R. Quentin Grafton
R. Quentin Grafton Australian National University
Sean Pascoe
Sean Pascoe Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
Ngo Van Long
Ngo Van Long McGill University
Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn University of Washington
Dale Squires
Dale Squires University of California, San Diego
André E. Punt
André E. Punt University of Washington
Harry Campbell
Harry Campbell University of Edinburgh
Steven J. Phipps
Steven J. Phipps University of Tasmania
Mark A. Matthews
Mark A. Matthews University of California, Davis
David Cook
David Cook University of Iceland

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