Associate Professor Jim Smart
Jim Smart is an environmental economist with expertise in ecosystem service assessment, nutrient offsetting, incentive-based approaches for managing water quality, environmental-economic accounting, non-market valuation, cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness evaluation. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research papers, together with book chapters and consultancy reports for a wide variety of clients. Jim has led public- and private-sector projects in environmental economics including projects for Australia’s National Environmental Science Program’s Tropical Water Quality Hub and Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub; Seqwater; Healthy Land & Water; and South-East Queensland Council of Mayors. Jim has recently completed a project that produced a pilot set of SEEA-format Ecosystem Accounts for the Mitchell River catchment in Queensland and is leading the SEEA Ocean Accounting component within a Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre project.
Jim Smart is an environmental economist with expertise in ecosystem service assessment, nutrient offsetting, incentive-based approaches for managing water quality, environmental-economic accounting, non-market valuation, cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness evaluation. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed research papers, together with book chapters and consultancy reports for a wide variety of clients. Jim has led public- and private-sector projects in environmental economics including projects for Australia’s National Environmental Science Program’s Tropical Water Quality Hub and Northern Australia Environmental Resources Hub; Seqwater; Healthy Land & Water; and South-East Queensland Council of Mayors. Jim has recently completed a project that produced a pilot set of SEEA-format Ecosystem Accounts for the Mitchell River catchment in Queensland and is leading the SEEA Ocean Accounting component within a Blue Economy Cooperative Research Centre project.
