Rate My Professor Peter Burnett

Burnett's research centers on environmental and biodiversity policy, environmental regulation, and natural capital accounting, with particular emphasis on the integration of environmental information into development approvals and the function of environmental impact assessment in decision-making. His key publications include the PhD thesis 'Australia's National Approach to "Ecologically Sustainable Development": Success in Principle, Failure in Policy, Still in Prospect' (2018); 'The accounting push and the policy pull: balancing environment and economic decisions' co-authored with Vardon and Dovers in Ecological Economics (2016); 'Accounting for ecosystem services – Lessons from Australia for its application and use in Oceania to achieve sustainable development' in Ecosystem Services (2019); 'Measuring net-positive outcomes for nature using accounting' in Nature Ecology & Evolution (2020); 'From natural capital accounting to natural capital banking' in Nature Sustainability (2021); and 'Conservation of the critically endangered Box-gum grassy woodlands with ecosystem accounting in Australia' in Biological Conservation (2023). He serves as a Councillor with the Biodiversity Council, contributes regular commentaries on environmental policy to The Conversation, and authors the Sustainability Bites blog. In 2019, he participated in events surrounding the OECD Environmental Performance Review of Australia and joined collaborative research with the Federal Environment Department on environmental information use in decision-making.