Nikki Dumbrell

Higher Degree by Research Candidate

Centre for Global Food and Resources

Faculty of the Professions

I am interested in research at the nexus of environmental, agricultural and economic systems. Further, I seek to engage in research projects that can inform policy decisions and improve livelihoods.

My PhD (commenced mid-2018) is exploring issues related to the social licence to operate through a series of case studies in Australia.

For much of 2017-2018 I worked on projects to improve the profitability and sustainability of vegetable industries in south east Asia (at The University of Adelaide).

For much of 2013-2016 I worked on projects related to carbon farming adoption and the trade-offs between greenhouse gas mitigation and other objectives for Australian grain growers (at The University of Western Australia).

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Education

Date Institution name Country Title
2018 University of Adelaide Australia PhD
2010 - 2013 The University of Western Australia Australia Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours
Research Interests

Agricultural Economics Agricultural Economics & Policy Applied Economics Environment and Resource Economics Environment Policy Rural Sociology

Date	Institution name	Country	Title
2018	University of Adelaide	Australia	PhD
2010 - 2013	The University of Western Australia	Australia	Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours

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Journals

Year	Citation
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., 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. DOI Scopus5 WoS4
2017	Meier, E., Thorburn, P., Kragt, M., Dumbrell, N., Biggs, J., Hoyle, F., & van Rees, H. (2017). Greenhouse gas abatement on southern Australian grains farms: biophysical potential and financial impacts. Agricultural Systems, 155, 147-157. DOI Scopus1
2017	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. DOI
2016	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. DOI Scopus13 WoS10

Conference Papers

Year	Citation
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	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.
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).

Conference Items

Year	Citation
2019	Dumbrell, N. P. (2019). Economics and the ‘social licence to operate’ for natural-resource-dependent industries. Poster session presented at the meeting of 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. Poster session presented at the meeting of 62nd Annual Conference of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Adelaide, Australia.
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.
2017	Dumbrell, N. P., Umberger, W. J., Zeng, D., Nguyen, A. D., & Pagliuca, L. (2017). Consumer preferences and consumption patterns for fruit & vegetables in urban Vietnam. Poster session presented at the meeting of North-West Vietnam Research Symposium: Mountains of Opportunity. Hanoi, Vietnam: Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research.
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. Poster session presented at the meeting of 60th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Canberra, Australia.
2014	Dumbrell, N. P., Kragt, M. E., & Gibson, F. L. (2014). Climate mitigation preferences of Australian farmers: a best-worst scaling study. Poster session presented at the meeting of 58th Annual Conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. Port Macquarie, Australia.

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
2017 - ongoing	Secretary	Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, South Australia Branch	Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society	Australia

Email: nikki.dumbrell@adelaide.edu.au
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