Professor Romy Greiner

Full description

Dr Romy Greiner has held the position of Professor of Tropical Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University since 2009. Romy is an ecological economist who contributes research to the solution of sustainability problems in natural resource based industries, including agriculture, grazing, tourism and fishing. Applications have included, among others, water management, biodiversity conservation and marine + coastal resource use and management. Romy specialises in quantitative empirical research and works in collaboration with key stakeholders--including businesses, industry organisations and government--so as to maximise the relevance of research findings.

Romy has made significant research contributions to:

• understanding motivations for and drivers of production, consumption and adoption behaviour.
• conceiving matters of Indigenous livelihoods, well-being and economic development as they relate to the environment.
• measuring the benefits (monetary and well-being) and costs of alternative options.
• developing solutions to environmental problems at the business, industry and regional scales.
• exploring the role of policy instruments in facilitating ecologically sustainable development with particular focus on market-based instruments.

As well as important contributions to:

• conducting economic research within a participatory action research framework and as part of interdisciplinary research teams;
• supporting the translation of research results and scientific knowledge into management and policy; and nurturing the professional development of young researchers

Research Projects

• Hydropower development and the livelihoods of downstream communities in Laos
• The potential role of market-based instruments in safeguarding the water quality in Darwin Harbour
  
  • The potential role of market-based instruments in safeguarding the water quality in Darwin Harbour - Phase 1
• Advisor to MDBA National Cultural Flows Planning and Research Committee
  
  • Murray-Darling Basin Authority (MDBA) wishes to engage the services of Dr Romy Greiner to provide advice to the National Cultural flows Planning and Research Committee for the purposes of developing a detailed Research Proposal.
• Importance of Pelung Chicken, West Java, Indonesia

Snapshot

Discipline: Resource / environmental / ecological economics

Methods: Social surveys; benefit-cost analysis; systems analysis, bio-economic modelling, scenario analysis; advanced statistical techniques; choice modelling; strategic impact assessment; empirical investigations using surveys, interviews, focus group discussions

Applications: Policy analysis, design and evaluation; social and economic benchmarking and socio-psychometric investigations of resource users; scenario development and planning

Topics: ecosystem services, livelihoods, wellbeing, environmental management, risk management, trade-offs, adaptation, economic values, aspirations, land, water, marine use and management, grazing, agriculture, salinity, water quality, biodiversity conservation, fishing, tourism, conservation, indigenous and regional economic development

Skills:

• Project management, team leadership, teaching and post-graduate student supervision
• Participatory action research with regional communities, industries and indigenous groups
• Engagement, negotiation and collaboration with research organisations, government agencies, not-for-profit organisations, indigenous organisations, industry organisations, interest groups and the broader community

Collaboration: universities, consulting companies, government research agencies,

Outputs: Reports, scientific publications, presentations, manuals, others