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Prof Mike Young FASSA (Former Member)

BEc (Adelaide), MAgSc (Adelaide), GAICD (Canberra)

Expertise

• Water entitlements and trading systems
• Market-based incentives to improve natural resource use
• Resource economics
• Environmental flows

Background

• Distinguished Fellow, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society
• Member, Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists
• Fellow, Academy of the Social Sciences
• Executive Director, University of Adelaide's Environment Institute
• Research Chair, Water Economics and Management, University of Adelaide
• 2008 South Australian of the Year in the Environment Category
• Chief Research Scientist, CSIRO Land and Water
• Adjunct Professor, Centre for Ecological Economics and Water Policy Research, University of New England
• Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Science and Agriculture, Charles Sturt University
• Member, South Australian Sustainability Roundtable
• Associate Editor, International Ecological Economics Journal

Publications & Speeches

A future-proofed Basin: A new water management regime for the Murray-Darling Basin

Defining Tradable Water Entitlements and Allocations: A Robust System

Sharing Water: Options for the use of shares as a means to define groundwater entitlements in the South East of South Australia

Evergreen Leasing of Aquaculture Sites

Robust Reform: The Case for a New Water Entitlement System for Australia

Publication Links

"Who Dares Wins": Opportunities to improve water trading in the south-east of South Australia

Robust Separation: A search for a generic framework to simplify registration and trading of interests in natural resources

Design principles for individual transferable quotas

Website

www.myoung.net.au