Rate My Professor Jeff Bennett

Jeff Bennett is Emeritus Professor in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics in the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University. He holds a Bachelor of Agricultural Economics with First Class Honours from the University of New England and a PhD from the Australian National University. Emeritus Professor Bennett has over 50 years of experience researching, consulting, and teaching in environmental economics, natural resource economics, agricultural economics, and applied microeconomics. He previously directed the Environmental Economics Research Hub at the Crawford School and held his emeritus position from 1999 to 2022.

His research specializes in the development and application of techniques to estimate the value of non-marketed environmental benefits and costs, including choice modelling and contingent valuation methods, as well as the analysis of institutional structures that incentivize private natural resource owners and managers to provide environmental services. Bennett has produced 194 research outputs, comprising 104 journal articles, 43 book chapters, and 8 books. Key publications include "Contemporary guidance for stated preference studies" (2017), "The choice modelling approach to environmental valuation" (2001), "Environmental Choice Modelling" (2001), "Choice modelling and its potential application to tropical rainforest preservation" (2000), "Economic valuation of cultural heritage sites: A choice modeling approach" (2010), and more recent works such as "Implementing bottom-up governance through granting legal rights to rivers: a case study of the Whanganui River, Aotearoa New Zealand" (2022), "Valuing uncertain environmental outcomes from herpes virus control of the European Carp" (2022), "Willingness to pay for the outcomes of improved stormwater management" (2022), and "A benefit-cost comparison of varying scales and methods of coral reef restoration in the Philippines" (2021). He has contributed editorially to the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and served on the editorial board of Ecological Management & Restoration. Bennett is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.