Staff profile

Dr John Oliver Kennedy

Associate Professor, Reader

Faculty of Business, Economics and Law

School of Economics

Donald Whitehead, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BSc (Bristol) (Hons) PhD (London)

Membership of professional Associations

Marine Resource Economics; Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, Natural Resource Modeling

Area of study

Economics

Brief Profile

John Kennedy was a research fellow working on a large scale programming model of Australian agriculture from 1972 to 1975 at the University of New England, Armidale, before taking up a lectureship at La Trobe. He was appointed reader and associate professor in 1988. His research interests are in the areas of resource, environmental and agricultural economics. He has applied various techniques for aiding decision-making in these areas, such as cost-benefit analysis, non-market valuation and dynamic optimisation under uncertainty. He was President of the Victorian Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society in 1994, and from 1994 to 1996 was joint editor of the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics. John was project leader of the project “Maximising the Economic Benefits to Pacific Island Nations from Management of Migratory Tuna Stocks” funded by ACIAR (Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research). The project that ran from the start of 2002 to the end of 2007, with La Trobe University as the Commissioned Organisation, and the University of Queensland, the Forum Fisheries Agency and the Oceanic Fisheries Programme of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community as Collaborating Institutions.

Research specialisation

- Environmental and resource economics

Teaching Units

  • Microeconomic Theory
  • Business Models
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Resource and Environmental Economics
  • Public Policy
  • Global Environmental Issues

Consulting

Contributor to report of Dominion Consulting Pty Ltd prepared for Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry Australia (AFFA), “Conservation and Optimum Utilization of Southern Bluefin Tuna” in conjunctio

Recent Publications

Book

  • Dynamic Programming: Applications to Agriculture and Natural Resources, Elsevier Applied Science, London, 1986.

Journal Articles

  • “Scope for Efficient Multinational Exploitation of North-East Atlantic Mackerel”, Marine Resource Economics, 18(1), 2003, 55-80.
  • (with G. Herath) “Estimating the economic value of Mount Buffalo National Park with the travel cost and contingent valuation models”, Tourism Economics, 10(1), 2004, 63-78.
  • (with D. Spring) "Existence value and optimal timber-wildlife management in a flammable multistand forest”, Ecological Economics, 55, 2005, 365-379.
  • (with R. Hannesson) “Landing Fees Versus Fish Quotas”, Land Economics, 81(4), 2005, 518-529.
  • (with D. Spring and R. Mac Nally) “Optimal management of a forested catchment providing timber and carbon sequestration benefits: Climate change effects”, Global Environmental Change, 15, 2005, 281-292.
  • (with D. Spring and R. Mac Nally) “Optimal Management Of A Flammable Forest Providing timber and carbon sequestration benefits: An Australian case study”, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 49(3), 2005, 303-320.
  • (with R. Hannesson) “Within-Season Rents: Maximised or Dissipated in an Open-Access Fishery?”, Marine Resource Economics, 21(3), 2006, 251-267. (Winners of the Hong Award for Outstanding Article in Marine Resource Economics in 2006 (Volume 21))
  • (with H.F. Campbell) “Alternative Futures for Southern Bluefin Tuna”, International Journal of Global Environmental Issues, 7(2/3), 2007, 240-254.
  • (with D.A. Spring, D.B. Lindenmayer, M.A. Mccarthy and R. Mac Nally) "Optimal management of a flammable multi-stand forest for timber production and maintenance of nesting sites for wildlife", Forest Ecology and Management, 255, 2008, 3857-3865.
  • (with R. Hannesson) "Rent-Maximization Versus Competition in the Western and Central Pacific Tuna Fishery", Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research 1(1), 2009, 49-65.

Resume

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Research projects

Optimal management of aquaculture, forestry, and agriculture resources