Staff Profile
Adjunct Professor Dodo Thampapillai
| Room: | E8A 372 |
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| Phone: | +61 2 9850 7984 |
| Fax: | +61 2 9850 7972 |
| Email: | dthampap@gse.mq.edu.au |
Profile
Dodo Thampapillai holds a Personal Chair in Environmental Economics and an Adjunct Professorship in Environmental Economics at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences at Uppsala. In 2005, he was included in the list of Eminent Environmental Economists by UNESCAP and was previously a member of the UNEP Expert Group in Environmental Economics. He has over 100 publications including seven books and nine refereed monographs. He was also awarded the DFG Professorship (University of Kiel, Germany 1999/2000) and SLU visiting Professorship (Sweden- 1999/2000). He has also consulted with World Bank, United Nations Development Programme, Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations and International Labour Organization, and the Australian Government. Dodo's current research focus is on Macroeconomics and the Environment.
Research Interest
- Environmental macroeconomics
- economics of environmental degradation
- water resources and energy resources
- valuation of unpriced goods and services
- environmental quality and poverty
- application of operations research models in environmental economics
- development studies
Teaching
- GSE300 Economics for Environmental Management
- GSE809 Natural Resource Economics
- GSE806 Economic Evaluation Techniques
- GSE810 Environmental Economics
Selected Publications
- Environmental Economics: Concepts, Methods and Policies, Oxford University Press, Melbourne 2002; (Reprinted 2006) – Revised Edition in Progress
- "Meeting the Environmental Challenges of China and India: Towards Innovative Policy Formulation", Forthcoming in the Journal of Administration and Governance, 2007
- "The Scarcity of Environmental Capital and Economic Growth: A Comparative Study of Australia and the United States", Singapore Economic Review, August 2007.
- "The Environment and the Economy: Some Questions Regarding the Performance of the Chinese Economy" International Journal of Environment Workplace and Employment, (with Wu Xun and L. Sunderaj) September 2007
- "The Value of Nature in Thailand", International Journal of Environment Workplace and Employment, (with Quah, E and Thangavelu, S. M.), September 2006.
- "An Extension of a John O'Brien Proposition: Altruism as an Instrument of Public Policy", International Journal of Social Economics, (with Bo Ohlmer and Lim Boon Tiong), 32 (10), 2005.
- "An Introductory Macroeconomic Framework for China: Implications for West China Development" (with S. Thangavelu and E. Quah), in Ding, L. and Nielson, W. A. (Eds), China's West Region Development: Domestic Strategies and Global Implications, World Scientific, 2005.
- "Taxation for Environmental Efficiency and Issues of Income Distribution", (with P. Mukhopadaya, S. M. Thangavelu and E Quah), in Deketelaere et al., Critical Issues in Environmental Taxation – Volume II, Richmond Law and Tax, 2005.
- "Towards Unitary Economics: Valuation of Environmental Capital for Environmental Stewardship", (with S. Thangavelu) International Journal of Social Economics, 2004.
- "Environmental Valuation", (with Quah, E) Chapter 4 in Quah, E. and Tan, K.C., Siting Environmentally Unwanted Facilities: Risks, Trade-Offs and Choices, Edward Elgar, London, 2002.
- "The Relationship Between Environmentally Sustainable Income, Employment and Wages in Australia", (with S. Mallick and J.A. Sinden), Australian Economic Papers, June 2000.
- "The Internalisation of Environmental Capital into an Aggregate Cobb-Douglas Function" (with C-H. Hanf), Economic Analysis and Policy, September 2000