Elizabeth Law
Masters, University of Queensland, July 2009-July 2010
PhD, University of Queensland, August 2010 – current
Email: e.law@uq.edu.au
My research interests include ecological interactions and ecological economics. More specifically, determining and designing incentives for conservation, and consideration of cost effectiveness in conservation planning and environmental management.
I’m currently working on “Carbon, conservation and the new climate markets”. Climate change, and the international activities associated with it, provides a new platform under which biodiversity can be valued and supported. Potential benefits and pitfalls are highly dependent on how new climate markets are designed and implemented. My goal is to explore how we can make the most of this opportunity and provide some guidance as to how we can best use carbon markets to support biodiversity conservation.
This PhD project is supervised by Dr Kerrie Wilson, Dr Paul Dargusch (SMART, School of Integrative Systems, UQ) and Dr Thilak Mallawaarachchi (Risk and Sustainable Management Group, School of Economics, UQ).
