Staff profile

Dr Jayanath Ananda

Senior Lecturer

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Albury-Wodonga

 

Qualifications

PhD MAgrSc. BSc (Hons)

Area of study

Economics

Brief Profile

Jayanath Ananda has a PhD in economics and is a senior lecturer at the School of Economics, Albury-Wodonga Campus. His research interests focus on water policy and decision making, efficiency and productivity analysis and sustainability. He has many journal articles in internationally reputed journals and several book chapters in authoritative volumes. Currently, he is involved in several projects relating to enhancing the performance of water institutions and climate change adaptation.

Teaching Units

  • Macroeconomics
  • Principles of Environmental & Resource Economics
  • Managing Climate Change

Recent Publications

Book chapters

Ananda, J. 2013. Watershed Development, Decentralisation and Institutional Change: Insights from the Mechanism Design Theory, In: R. Muradian and L. Rivals (eds.) Governing the Provision of Environmental Services, Studies in Ecological Economics, Vol. 4, Springer, pp.133-147

Ananda, J. 2012. Conflict resolution in forest land use planning and management: The use of multi-stakeholder analysis, In: C. Aubrecht, S. Freire and K. Steinnocher (eds.) Land Use: Planning, Regulations and Environment, New York, Nova Science Publishers, pp.53-73.

Ananda, J. 2012. Watershed Development, Decentralization and Institutional Competition, In Herath, G (ed.) Institutional Aspects of Water Management, New York: Nova Science Publishers, pp. 93-108.

Ananda, J. 2009. Water institutions in India: An institutional design perspective, In: Crase, L. and Gandhi, V. (eds.) Designing Water Institutions: Conceptual Lessons and Applications to India, Earthscan Publishers, pp. 100-122.

Refereed journal articles

Ananda, J. 2012. Role of local institutions in formulating climate change adaptation strategies: A public policy perspective, Australasian Journal of Regional Studies, Vol. 18(3): 314-340.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2009. ‘A review of multi-criteria decision making methods with special reference to forest management and planning’, Ecological Economics 68 (10): 2535-2548.

Ananda, J. Domazetis, G. and Hill, J. 2009. ‘A Roadmap to a Green Chemical Industry in Australia’, Environment, Development and Sustainability 11: 1051-1071.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2008, ‘Multi-attribute Preference Modelling and Regional Land-Use Planning’ Ecological Economics 65(2), 325-335.

Ananda, J. 2007. Implementing Participatory Decision Making in Forest Planning. Environmental Management Vol. 39 (4): 534-544.

Ananda, J., Crase, L. and Pagan, P.G. 2006, ‘A Preliminary Assessment Of Water-Related Institutions In India’ Review of Policy Research Vol. 23(4): 927-953.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2005, Evaluating public risk preferences in forest land-use choices using multi-attribute utility theory, Ecological Economics Vol. 55(3): 408-419.

Hillman, T., Crase, L., Furze, B., Ananda, J. and Mayberry, D. 2005, Multidisciplinary approaches to natural resources management, HydroBiologia  Vol. 552(1): 99-108.

Ananda, J. 2004, Stakeholder Incentives in Participatory Forest Management: A Manual for Economic Analysis, Michael Richards, Jonathan Davies and Gil Yaron, ITDG Publishing, London, 2003, 238 pp, Book review, Ecological Economics,  Vol. 50(1-2), pp. 160-161.

Ananda, J. 2004, ‘Implementing participatory approaches in formulating regional forest policy’, International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 7(4): 398-409.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2003, ‘Incorporating stakeholder preferences into forest planning: a value function approach’, Ecological Economics, Vol. 45(1), pp. 75-90.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2003, ‘The use of analytic hierarchy process to incorporate stakeholder preferences into regional forest planning’, Forest Policy and Economics, Vol. 5(1), pp. 13-26.

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2003, ‘Soil Erosion in Developing Countries: A Socio-Economic Appraisal’, Journal of Environmental Management, Vol. 68, pp. 343-53.  

Ananda, J. and Herath, G. 2002, ‘Assessment of Wilderness Quality Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process’, Tourism Economics, Vol. 8(2), pp. 165-82.

Ananda, J., Herath, G. and Chisholm, A. 2001, ‘Determining Yield and Erosion Damage Functions Using Subjectively Elicited Data: Application to Smallholder Tea in Sri Lanka’, The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Vol. 45 (2), pp. 275-89.

Refereed conference papers

Ananda, J. 2012. Water management in the face of uncertainty and change: Institutional barriers to adaptive learning. Paper presented at the ICARUS III Conference – Scales, Frameworks and Metrics, May 18-20, 2012, Columbia University, New York, USA.

Ananda, J. 2012. Climate change uncertainty and urban water infrastructure investment: Reforming regulatory and planning institutions. Paper presented at the Mini-Symposium on Urban Water Planning with a Risky Climate, AARES 56th Annual Conference, 7-9 February 2012, Fremantle, WA.

Ananda, J. 2011. Adaptation to Climate Change: The Role of Local Government in Formulating Regional Adaptation Strategies. Paper presented at the ICARUS II Conference – Climate Vulnerability and Adaptation: Marginal Peoples and Environments, May 5-8, 2011, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.

Research projects

Enhancing Water Infrastructure Provision with Climate Change Uncertainty (2011-2012)

North East Victoria Adapting to a Low Water Future (2010)