Graham Ashford- Head of Department at University of the Sunshine Coast
Graham Ashford
- Head of Department at University of the Sunshine Coast
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Introduction
Dr Graham Ashford is an environmental and resource economist with considerable experience designing and managing complex international research and capacity building projects. Examples include: economic modelling of credit discounting policies on the CDM carbon market; financial analysis of Canarium nut processing in PNG (funder: ACAIR); economic analysis of rainwater harvesting in Madagascar and coastal inundation in Mauritius (European Union); technical and editorial support for North Korea’s State of Environment Report (UNEP); training of North Korean officials in the Clean Development Mechanism (UNEP) and environmental management (Government of China, IDRC).
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Understanding our natural environment and the way it adds value to the Sunshine Coast will help inform decision-making and future policy outcomes and support the continued need to invest in the region’s natural assets. A foundational stream of work in this project has focused on ‘localising’ the SEQ Ecosystem Services Framework methods and techniqu...
Grouper aquaculture is a rapidly growing and dynamic industry within Vietnamese aquaculture and an important source of local employment and income generation. Information on the state of current production practices and profitability for specific crops across different geographic locations and stages of production is difficult to obtain. This resea...
The main design determinant for small catchment hydraulic structures is rainfall intensity. Localised relationships between rainfall intensity, frequency and duration (IFD) are used to design each structure to a specified level of performance. However, limitations in rainfall observations introduce uncertainty in IFD values. Further, this uncertain...
UNESCO World Heritage K’gari-Fraser Island, located off the east coast of Australia, is a unique environment with boundless opportunities for teaching and research. The island encompasses pristine wilderness with large tracts of naturally fragmented habitat, a wide diversity of ecosystems and a rich and ancient indigenous history. The University of...
This chapter describes the Sustainability Focused Community of Practice (SFCoP) at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia. The SFCoP is a diverse group of academics committed to teaching and assessing a complex and contested concept. The SFCoP emerged in response to an institutional requirement that graduates from all programs needed to de...
This paper describes a software modelling system, SimCLIM, for simulating the effects of climate variability and change, and demonstrates its application to domestic rainwater harvesting (RWH). The paper first describes SimCLIM and then focuses on a case study of the reliability of domestic RWH systems as the sole source of water in South East Quee...
