Clem Tisdell
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Clement Allan Tisdell (born 18 November 1939 in Taree, New South Wales) is an Australian economist and Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland.
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[edit] Academic background
Clem Tisdell obtained his bachelor degree in Commerce (majoring in Economics) from the University of New South Wales in 1961 and his doctorate in Economics from the Australian National University in 1964. During his professorship, he has concurrently occupied various academic offices: acting head of the Department of Economics at the Australian National University, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the University of Newcastle, deputy director of the School of Marine Sciences and head of the Department of the School of Economics at the University of Queensland.
[edit] Academic interests
While Clem Tisdell is commonly recognised as an ecological economist[1] (see ecological economics), his research interests are diverse. His contribution to the literature on the environment, biodiversity and sustainable development notwithstanding, his research and writing encompass various other areas that include poverty, trade and globalisation, economic development, welfare economics, tourism, natural resources, the economics and socioeconomics of China and India, gender issues, economic theory and the history of economic thought.
Clem Tisdell is a prolific author. A fairly comprehensive account of his body of work can be found at both his University of Queensland webpage and the University of Queensland Library's online catalogue (web addresses provided below).
[edit] Notes
- ^ Patterson, M.G. 2006. Development of ecological economics in Australia and New Zealand. Ecological Economics 56(3): 312-331.
[edit] Selected publications
- Tisdell, C. 2006. Knowledge about a species' conservation status and funding for its preservation: Analysis. Ecological Modelling 198(3-4): 515-519.
- Tisdell, C. 2005. Economics of Environmental Conservation (2nd ed.). Edward Elgar: Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Mass., USA. ISBN 1-84376-614-0.
- Tisdell, C., Wilson, C. and Swarna Nantha, H. 2005. Policies for saving a rare Australian glider: economics and ecology. Biological Conservation 123(2): 237-248.
- Tisdell, C. 2005. Elephants and polity in ancient India as exemplified by Kautilya's Arthasastra (Science of Polity). Working papers on Economics, Ecology and the Environment, No. 120. School of Economics, University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland.
- Tisdell, C. 2003. Socioeconomic causes of loss of animal genetic diversity: analysis and assessment. Ecological Economics 45(3): 365-376.
- Tisdell, C. 2001. Globalisation and sustainability: environmental Kuznets curve and the WTO. Ecological Economics 39(2): 185-196.
- Tisdell, C. and Chai, J.C.H. (ed.). 1997. China's Economic Growth and Transition: Macroeconomic, Regional, Environmental and Other Dimensions. Nova Science Publishers: New York, USA. ISBN 1-56072-524-9.
- Tisdell, C. 1988. Sustainable development: Differing perspectives of ecologists and economists, and relevance to LDCs. World Development 16(3): 373-384.
[edit] External links
- Clem Tisdell's University of Queensland webpage (contains CV and list of working papers, books and journal articles):
- http://www.uq.edu.au/economics/index.html?page=15911&pid=0
- Clem Tisdell's publications available at the University of Queensland Library collection (listed in reverse chronological order):
- http://library.uq.edu.au/search/aTisdell%2C+C.+A.+%28Clement+Allan%29%2C+1939-/atisdell+c+a+clement+allan+1939/1%2C1%2C373%2CB/exact&FF=atisdell+c+a+clement+allan+1939&1%2C373%2C/indexsort=r
