Quentin Grafton's picture

Quentin Grafton

Professor and Laureate Fellow; Chairholder UNESCO Chair in Water Economics and Transboundary Water Governance

Qualifications

B.Ag. Econ (Massey), MS (Iowa State University), PhD (University of British Columbia)

Contact details

Recent Highlighted Journal Publications (2022-2024)

Y. Shen, X. Shi, Z. Zhao, R.Q. Grafton, J. Yu, Y. Shan (2024) Quantifying energy transition vulnerability helps more just and inclusive decarbonization PNAS Nexus (In press).

S. Wheeler, C. Nauges, R.Q. Grafton (2024) Water pricing and markets: Principles, practices and proposals. Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (In press)

M. Vardon, T. Ha Lien Le, R. Martinez-Lagunes, O. Batlokwa Pule, S. Schenau, S. May, R.Q. Grafton (2024) A global review and indicators of best practice for improved water governance. Ecological Economics (In press).

A. Manero, M. Vardon, A. Normyle and R.Q. Grafton (2024) Two sides of the same coin’? Bridging water accounting and valuation for better decision-making. Environmental Research Letters 19(9) https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ad66e7 5. V. Costantino, R.Q. Grafton, L. Chu, T. Kompas, D. Honeyman, A. Notaras and R. McIntyre. (2024) Public health and economic burden of long-COVID in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia 221(4): 217-223. https://www.mja.com.au/system/files/issues/221_04/mja252400.pdf

T. Kompas, N. Che and R.Q. Grafton (2024) Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food security. Scientific Reports 14:14398. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-65274-z Altmetric 531, in top 1% of all publications if all journals of a similar age with more than 10,000 article accesses. T. Kompas, N. Che and R.Q. Grafton (2024) Non-Market Value Losses to Coastal Ecosystem Services and Wetlands from Sea-level Rise and Storm Surge, 2050 to 2100: The Kimberley Region, Western Australia. Ocean and Costal Management 255 (2024) 107215. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096456912400200X?via%...
R. Hope, K.J. Charles, R.Q. Grafton. D. Olago, M. Salehin, M.A. Hoassin, R. Peters, A. Gren, T. Woldehanna, M. Ibrahim, E.K. Chowdhury, M.M. Alam, K. Goyol, R. McDonnell, A. Nileshwar (2024) Science–practitioner partnerships for sustainable development. Nature Water 2: 502-504. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-024-00255-0 9. A. Manero. W. Nikolakis, K. Woods, and R.Q. Grafton (2024) Non-market valuation and Indigenous Peoples’ Values: Researcher Constraints and Policy Impacts. Environmental Science and Policy 153, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103679

A. Manero, W. Adamowicz, S. Akter, A. Spencer-Cotton, P.J. Coombes, P. Wyrwoll, J. Horne, N. Lansbury, S. Creamer, K.S. Taylor, S. Fanaian, and R.Q. Grafton (2024) Benefits, costs and enabling conditions to achieve ‘water for all’ in rural and remote Australia. Nature Water 2, 31-40. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00182-6.pdf

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton and H. Nelson (2023) Accounting for Forest Fire Risks: Global Insights for Climate Change Mitigation. Mitigation and adaptation Strategies for Global Change 28, 48. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11027-023-10087-0

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton and H. Nelson (2023) What will it Cost to Achieve the COP26 Glasgow Forest Agreement Commitment and Halt Global Forest Loss? World Development Sustainability 3. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wds.2023.100106

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton. T. Kompas and M-L McLaws (2023) Effects of Closures and Openings on Public Health in the Time of COVID-19: A Cross-Country and Temporal Trend Analysis, Sage Open, Volume 13, 4. https://doi.org/10.1177/21582440231207472

R.Q. Grafton, S. Fanaian (2023) Responding to the Global Challenges of ‘Too Much, Too Little, Too Dirty’ Water: Towards a Safer and More Just Water Future. Notas Económicas, July 2023: 65-90. https://impactum-journals.uc.pt/notaseconomicas/article/view/13258

W.B. Bates, L. Chu, H. Claire, M.J. Colloff, R. Cotton, R. Davies, L. Larsen, G. Loughrey, A. Manero. V. Marshall, S. Martin, N-M Nguyen, W. Nikolakis, A. Poelina, D. Schulz, K.S. Taylor, J. Williams, P. Wyrwoll, R.Q. Grafton (2023) A Tale of Two Rivers – Baaka and Martuwarra, Australia: Shared Voices and Art towards Water Justice. The Anthropocene Review, Volume 11(1), 228-261. https://doi.org/10.1177/20530196231186962

R.Q. Grafton, A. Manero, L. Chu, P. Wyrwoll (2023) The Price and Value of Water: An Economic Review. Cambridge Prisms: Water 1: 1-39. doi:10.1017/wat.2023.2. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-prisms-water/article/p... Nominated for paper of the year in the journal.

R.Q, Grafton, A.K. Biswas, H. Bosch, S. Fanaian, J. Gupta, A. Revi, N. Sahi, C. Tortajada (2023) Goals, progress and priorities from Mar del Plata in 1977 to New York in 2023. Nature Water 1: 230-240. https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-023-00041-4

G.S. Cumming, Adamska, M., Barnes, M.L., Barnett, J., Bellwood, D.R., Cinner, J.E., Cohen, P., Donelson, J., Fabricius, K., Grafton, R.Q., Grech, A., Gurney, G.G., Hoegh-Guldberg, O., Hoey, A.S., Hoogenboom, M.O., Lau, J., Lovelock, C., Lowe, R., Miller, D., Morrison, T.H., Mumby, P.J., Nakata, M., Pandolfi, J.M., Peterson, G.D., Pratchett, M., Ravasi, T., Riginos, C., Rummer, J.L., Schaffelke, B., Wernber, T., and Wilson, S (2023) Research priorities for the sustainability of coral-rich western Pacific seascapes. Regional Environmental Change 23:66. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10113-023-02051-0
B.R. Scanlon, S. Fakhreddine, A. Rateb, I. de Graaf, J. Familgletti, R.Q. Grafton, et al.  (2023) Global water resources and the role of groundwater in a resilient water future. Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 4: 87–101. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-022-00378-6 Altmetric 289, in top 1% of all publications if all journals of a similar age and with more than 16,000 article accesses.

R.Q. Grafton, S.I. Steinshamn, D. Squires (2022) Towards Resilience-based Management of Marine Capture Fisheries. Economic Analysis and Policy 77: 231-238. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.11.012

J. Williams, M.C. Colloff, R.Q. Grafton, S. Khan, Z. Paydar, P. Wyrwoll (2022) The three-infrastructures framework and water risks in the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. Australasian Journal of Water Resources 27(1): 47-67. https://doi.org/10.1080/13241583.2022.2151106

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton, T. Kompas (2022) Optimisation of economic performance and stock resilience in marine capture fisheries. Economic Analysis and Policy 76: 863-875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eap.2022.09.016
R.Q. Grafton, L. Chu, R.T. Kingsford, G. Bina, J. Williams (2022) Resilience to Hydrological Droughts in the Northern Murray-Darling Basin. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A 380: 20210296. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2021.0296 Quality of Research Discovery Award 2023, Australasian Agriculture and Resource Economics Society.

K. Owens, E. Carmody, R.Q. Grafton, E. O’Donnell, S.A. Wheeler, L. Godden, R. Allen, R. Lyster, R., P. Steduto, Q. Jiang, R. Kingsford, J. Quiggin (2022) Delivering global water security: Embedding water justice as a response to increased irrigation efficiency WIREs Water 22; e1608. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1608

P. Wyrwoll, A. Manero. K.S. Taylor, E. Rose, R.Q. Grafton (2022) Measuring gaps in drinking water quality and policy in regional and remote Australia. NPJ Clean Water 5, 32. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-022-00174-1 8,000+ article accesses, Altmetric 198 and in 98th percentile of all tracked articles of a similar age in all journals.

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton, T. Kompas (2022) What vaccination rate(s) minimize total societal costs after ‘opening up’ to COVID-19? Age-structured SIRM Results for the Delta variant in Australia (New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia) (2022) PLOS Global Public Health 2(6): e0000499. What vaccination rate(s) minimize total societal costs after ’opening up’ to COVID-19? Age-structured SIRM results for the Delta variant in Australia (New South Wales, Victoria and Western Australia) | PLOS Global Public Health

P.I. Macreadie, A.I. Robertson, B. Spinks, M.P. Adams, J.M. Atchison, J. Bell-James, B. Bryan, L. Chu, K. Filbee-Dexter, L. Drake, C.M. Duarte, D.A. Friess, F. Gonzalez, R.Q. Grafton, K.J. Helmstedt, M. Kaebernick, J. Kelleway, G.A. Kendrick, H. Kennedy, C.E. Lovelock, J. P. Megonigal, D.T. Maher, E. Pidgeon, A.A. Rogers, R. Sturgiss, S.M. Trevathan-Tackett, M. Wartman, K.A. Wilson, K. Rogers (2022) Operationalising marketable blue carbon One Earth 5(5): 485-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.005

A. Manero, K. Taylor, W. Nikolakis, V. Adamowicz, V. Marshall, A. Spencer-Cotton, M. Nguyen, R. Quentin Grafton (2022) A systematic literature review of non-market valuation of Indigenous peoples’ values: Current knowledge, best-practice and framing questions for future research. Ecosystem Services 54: 101417. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2022.101417

L. Chu, R.Q. Grafton, and H. Nguyen (2022) A global analysis of the break-even prices to reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide via forest plantation and avoided deforestation. Forest Policy and Economics 135: 102666. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2021.102666

Updated:  13 October 2024/Responsible Officer:  Crawford Engagement/Page Contact:  CAP Web Team