Nikki Dumbrell
School of Economics and Public Policy
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
I am interested in environmental and natural resource economics and I really enjoy undertaking research in interdisciplinary teams. Broadly, I seek to engage in research projects that can improve our understanding of: (1) the economic, social and environmental consequences of different natural resource use decisions; (2) how these consequences are understood and experienced by different stakeholders; and (3) the effectiveness of different policies or (dis)incentives to encourage alternative resource use decisions.
I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO in Canberra and am an Adjunct Fellow with the Centre for Global Food and Resources, School of Economics and Public Policy, The University of Adelaide.
My PhD (2018-2021, at The University of Adelaide) was concerned with links between the social licence to operate, economics and decision-making with particular focus applied to the agricultural and energy industries.
I have also worked on projects designed to improve the profitability and sustainability of vegetable industries in Southeast Asia (2017-2018, at The University of Adelaide).
I also have experience working on projects related to carbon farming adoption and the trade-offs between greenhouse gas mitigation and other objectives for Australian grain growers (2013-2016, at The University of Western Australia) and identifying and describing the evidence base for agricultural management practices that sequester carbon on farms, and their co-benefits (2021-2022, at The University of Adelaide).
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Education
Date Institution name Country Title 2018 - 2022 University of Adelaide Australia PhD 2010 - 2013 The University of Western Australia Australia Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours -
Research Interests
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Journals
Year Citation 2024 Dumbrell, N. P., Wheeler, S. A., Zuo, A., & Adamson, D. (2024). Comparing Australian public and farmer views on agricultural land use and management practices for sustainability. Ecological Economics, 219, 108149.
2023 Meier, E., Thorburn, P., Biggs, J., Palmer, J., Dumbrell, N., & Kragt, M. (2023). Using machine learning with case studies to identify practices that reduce greenhouse gas emissions across Australian grain production regions. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 43(2), 11 pages.
2022 Dumbrell, N. P., Wheeler, S. A., Zuo, A., & Adamson, D. (2022). Public willingness to make trade-offs in the development of a hydrogen industry in Australia. Energy Policy, 165, 1-9.
Scopus14 WoS52022 Dumbrell, N. P. (2022). Why you should give a f*ck about farming. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 66(4), 912-913.
2021 Dumbrell, N., Adamson, D., Zuo, Z., & Wheeler, S. (2021). How do natural resource dependent firms gain and lose a social licence?. Global Environmental Change, 70, 12 pages.
Scopus9 WoS12020 Loch, A., Adamson, D., & Dumbrell, N. (2020). The fifth stage in water management: policy lessons for water governance. Water Resources Research, 56(5), 1-17.
Scopus18 WoS152020 Dumbrell, N. P., Adamson, D., & Wheeler, S. (2020). Is social licence a response to government and market failures? Evidence from the literature. Resources Policy, 69, 11 pages.
Scopus17 WoS162019 Dumbrell, N. P. (2019). Economics in Two Lessons: Why Markets Work So Well, and Why They Can Fail So Badly. AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS, 63(3), 668-669.
2018 Dumbrell, N. P. (2018). To what extent should society determine the right to farm?. Farm Policy Journal, 15(4), 19-26. 2017 Kragt, M. E., Dumbrell, N., & Blackmore, L. (2017). Motivations and barriers for Western Australian broad-acre farmers to adopt carbon farming. Environmental Science and Policy, 73(C), 115-123.
Scopus60 WoS452017 Meier, E. A., Thorburn, P. J., Kragt, M. E., Dumbrell, N., Biggs, J. S., Hoyle, F. C., & van Rees, H. (2017). Greenhouse gas abatement on southern Australian grains farms: biophysical potential and financial impacts. Agricultural Systems, 155, 147-157.
Scopus11 WoS102017 Dumbrell, N., Kragt, M., Meier, E., Biggs, J., & Thorburn, P. (2017). Greenhouse gas abatement costs are heterogeneous between Australian grain farms. Agronomy for Sustainable Development, 37(4), 1-10.
Scopus3 WoS32016 Dumbrell, N., Kragt, M., & Gibson, F. (2016). What carbon farming activities are farmers likely to adopt? A best-worst scaling survey. Land Use Policy, 54, 29-37.
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Conference Papers
Year Citation 2019 Dumbrell, N. P. (2019). Economics and the ‘social licence to operate’ for natural-resource-dependent industries. In 63rd Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Melbourne, Australia. 2018 Pagliuca, L. G., Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., & Zeng, D. (2018). Drivers of changing meat expenditure and consumption patterns in urban Vietnam. In 62nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Adelaide, Australia. 2017 Meier, E. A., Thorburn, P. J., Bell, L. W., Harrison, M. T., Biggs, J. S., Dumbrell, N. P., & Kragt, M. E. (2017). Potential greenhouse gas abatement from converting croplands to pastures negated by emissions from livestock. In G. J. O’Leary, R. D. Armstrong, & L. Hafner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Australian Agronomy Conference. Ballarat, Australia. 2017 Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., Nguyen, A., & Pagliuca, L. (2017). Consumer preferences and consumption patterns for fruit & vegetables in urban Vietnam. In North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Hanoi, Vietnam: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. 2017 Meier, E. A., Thorburn, P. J., Dumbrell, N. P., Palmer, J., & Kragt, M. E. (2017). Least cost greenhouse gas abatement – opportunities in Australian grain farms. In G. J. O’Leary, R. D. Armstrong, & L. Hafner (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th Australian Agronomy Conference. Ballarat, Australia. 2016 Dumbrell, N. P., Kragt, M. E., Meier, E. A., Thorburn, P. J., & Biggs, J. S. (2016). Options for simultaneous greenhouse gas abatement and profitability on Australian broadacre cropping farms. In 60th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Canberra, Australia. 2015 Dumbrell, N., Kragt, M., Meier, E., Biggs, J., & Thorburn, P. (2015). Integrating biophysical and whole-farm economic modelling of agricultural climate change mitigation. In T. Weber, M. McPhee, & R. Anderssen (Eds.), MODSIM2015, 21st International Congress on Modelling and Simulation (pp. 382-388). Online: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand. 2015 Meier, E., Thorburn, P., Kragt, M., Dumbrell, N., Biggs, J., & McAlpine, S. (2015). Trade-offs between greenhouse gas abatement and profitability of alternative management practices on Australian grain farms. In E. Gritti, & J. Wery (Eds.), Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium for Farming Systems Design (pp. 123-124). Montpellier, France: European Society for Agronomy and Agropolis International. 2015 Dumbrell, N., Kragt, M., & Gibson, F. (2015). What carbon farming activities are West Australian farmers willing to adopt?. In T. Acuña, M. Harrison, C. Moeller, & D. Parsons (Eds.), Building Productive, Diverse and Sustainable Landscapes. Proceedings of the 17th Australian Agronomy Conference (pp. 697-700). Hobart, Tas.: Australian Society of Agronomy. 2015 Meier, E., Thorburn, P., Kragt, M., Dumbrell, N., & Biggs, J. (2015). Greenhouse gas mitigation potential and profitability of practices on Australian grain farms. In T. Acuña, C. Moeller, D. Parsons, & M. Harrison (Eds.), Building Productive, Diverse and Sustainable Landscapes. Proceedings of the 17th Australian Agronomy Conference (pp. 135-138). Hobart, Tasmania: Australian Society of Agronomy. 2014 Kragt, M., Dumbrell, N., & Gibson, F. (2014). A best-worst scaling model of climate change abatement by Australian farmers. In Proceedings - 7th International Congress on Environmental Modelling and Software: Bold Visions for Environmental Modeling, iEMSs 2014 Vol. 4 (pp. 1914-1920). Online: International Environmental Modelling and Software Society. 2014 Dumbrell, N. P., Kragt, M. E., & Gibson, F. L. (2014). Climate mitigation preferences of Australian farmers: a best-worst scaling study. In 58th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Port Macquarie, Australia. -
Conference Items
Year Citation 2017 Dumbrell, N., Umberger, W., Zeng, D., Nguyen, A., & Pagliuca, L. (2017). The role of market research in agricultural development for northwest Vietnam: The case of fruit and vegetables. Poster session presented at the meeting of North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Hanoi, Vietnam: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. 2017 Nguyen, A. D., Umberger, W. J., Zeng, D., & Dumbrell, N. P. (2017). Concerns and valuation of food quality and food safety in urban Vietnam. Poster session presented at the meeting of North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research. -
Report for External Bodies
Year Citation 2022 Dumbrell, N., O'Connor, P., Matthews, K., Johns, C., Maier, H., Umberger, W., . . . Cavagnaro, T. (2022). Achieving a carbon neutral farming future in South Australia. 2019 Umberger, W., Yi, D., & Dumbrell, N. (2019). Towards more profitable and sustainable vegetable farming systems in north-western Vietnam (FR2019-92). Bruce, ACT, Australia: ACIAR. -
Working Paper
Year Citation 2015 Dumbrell, N., Kragt, M., Biggs, J., Meier, E., & Thorburn, P. (2015). Climate change abatement and farm profitability analyses across agricultural environments. Working paper 1515, School of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia..
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Committee Memberships
Date Role Committee Institution Country 2021 - ongoing Member Landcare Association of South Australia Management Committee Landcare Australia 2017 - 2019 Secretary Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, South Australia Branch Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Australia -
Memberships
Date Role Membership Country 2016 - ongoing Member Researchers in Agriculture for International Development Australia 2013 - ongoing Member Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Australia
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