Professor Jeff Connor

Professor in Water Economics School of Commerce

City West Campus (WL3-48)
tel +61 8 830 20516
fax +61 8 830 20992

email Jeff.Connor@unisa.edu.au

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About me

Professor Connor specialises in quantitative economic, environmental and social integrated systems modelling often working closely with governments at local, state, national and international levels to provide economic policy advice based on rigorous economics. Jeff worked as an economist and group leader at CSIRO from 2001-2016 where he provided research and advise to the Murray Darling Basin Authority, natural resource management boards and state departments for water, agriculture and natural resource management in South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia and in Bangladesh, Indonesia, China and Laos. He has secured and/or managed over $6 million worth of externally funded research and published over 60 peer reviewed... Read more

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Research

Research themes

Transforming industries
Scarce resources
Transforming societies

Research focus

Applied Economics
Environmental Sciences
Civil Engineering
Environmental Science and Management
Multidisciplinary

Research

Outputs

Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

Open access indicates that an output is open access.

Highlights

Year	Output
2017	Kandulu, J & Connor, J 2017, 'Improving the effectiveness of aid: an evaluation of prospective Mekong irrigation investments', International journal of water resources development, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 270-291.
2016	Connor, JD, Bryan, BA & Nolan, M 2016, 'Cap and trade policy for managing water competition from potential future carbon plantations', Environmental science and policy, vol. 66, pp. 11-22. 1 1 3
2016	Momblanch, A, Connor, JD, Crossman, ND, Paredes-Arquiola, J & Andreu, J 2016, 'Using ecosystem services to represent the environment in hydro-economic models', Journal of hydrology, vol. 538, pp. 293-303. 2 2 1
2015	Connor, JD, Bryan, BA, Nolan, M, Stock, F, Gao, L, Dunstall, S, Graham, P, Ernst, A, Newth, D, Grundy, M & Hatfield-Dodds, S 2015, 'Modelling Australian land use competition and ecosystem services with food price feedbacks at high spatial resolution', Environmental modelling and software, vol. 69, pp. 141-154. 20 19 4
2015	Regan, CM, Bryan, BA, Connor, JD, Meyer, WS, Ostendorf, B, Zhu, Z & Bao, C 2015, 'Real options analysis for land use management: methods, application, and implications for policy', Journal of environmental management, vol. 161, pp. 144-152. 16 12

Books

Year	Output
2013	Schwabe, K, Albiac, J, Connor, JD, Hassan, RM & Meza-Gonzalez, L 2013, Drought in arid and semi-arid regions: a multi-disciplinary and cross-country perspective, Springer Science+Business Media, Netherlands. 4 3

Chapters

Year	Output
2015	Wheeler, SA, Bark, R, Loch, A & Connor, J 2015, 'Agricultural water management', in A Dinar & K Schwabe (eds), Handbook of Water Economics, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, ch. 5, pp. 71-86.
2013	Connor, JD & Kaczan, D 2013, Principles for economically efficient and environmentally sustainable water markets: the Australian experience, Springer Science+Business Media, Netherlands. 2
2013	Hatton, MD, Bark, R, Garrick, D, Banerjee, O, Connor, J & Morrison, M 2013, 'Multiple benefits through the life cycle of the Basin plan', in RQ Quentin & D Connell (eds), Basin Futures: Water reform in the Murray-Darling Basin, ANU Press, Australia, ch. 15, pp. 263-275. Open access
2013	Maier, HR, Paton, FL, Dandy, GC & Connor, JD 2013, 'Impact of drought on Adelaide's water supply system: past, present, and future', in K Schwabe et al. (eds), Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective, Springer, Netherlands, ch. 3, pp. 41-62. 4
2013	Schwabe, K, Albiac, J, Connor, JD, Hassan, R & Meza-Gonzalez, L 2013, 'Introduction', in K Schwabe et al. (eds), Drought in Arid and Semi-Arid Regions: A Multi-Disciplinary and Cross-Country Perspective, Springer Science+Business Media, Netherlands, ch. 1, pp. 1-21. 1
2012	Connor, J, Banerjee, O, MacDonald, DH, Tapsuwan, S, Morrison, M & Ryan, A 2012, 'Maximising benefits from Murray-Darling Basin water resource management', in J Quiggin, T Mallawaarachchi & S Chambers (eds), Water Policy Reform: Lessons in Sustainability from the Murray-Darling Basin, Edward Elgar Publishing, UK, ch. 8, pp. 136-156.
2011	Bark, R, Hatton, MD, Connor, J, Crossman, ND & Jackson, S 2011, 'Water values', in Ian Prosser (ed), Water: science and solutions for Australia, CSIRO Publishing, Australia, ch. 2, pp. 17-27.

Journal Articles

Year	Output
2017	Kandulu, J & Connor, J 2017, 'Improving the effectiveness of aid: an evaluation of prospective Mekong irrigation investments', International journal of water resources development, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 270-291.
2017	Marcos-Martinez, R, Bryan, BA, Connor, JD & King, D 2017, 'Agricultural land-use dynamics: assessing the relative importance of socioeconomic and biophysical drivers for more targeted policy', Land use policy, vol. 63, pp. 53-66. 1 2
2017	Regan, CM, Connor, JD, Raja Segaran, R, Meyer, WS, Bryan, BA & Ostendorf, B 2017, 'Climate change and the economics of biomass energy feedstocks in semi-arid agricultural landscapes: a spatially explicit real options analysis', Journal of environmental management, vol. 192, pp. 171-183.
2016	Bryan, BA, Nolan, M, McKellar, L, Connor, JD & Hatfield-Dodds, S 2016, 'Land-use and sustainability under intersecting global change and domestic policy scenarios: trajectories for Australia to 2050', Global environmental change, vol. 38, pp. 130-152. 10 7 33
2016	Connor, JD, Bryan, BA & Nolan, M 2016, 'Cap and trade policy for managing water competition from potential future carbon plantations', Environmental science and policy, vol. 66, pp. 11-22. 1 1 3
2016	Gao, L, Bryan, BA, Nolan, M, Connor, JD, Song, X & Zhao, G 2016, 'Robust global sensitivity analysis under deep uncertainty via scenario analysis', Environmental modelling and software, vol. 76, pp. 154-166. 15 15 2
2016	Grundy, MJ, Bryan, BA, Nolan, M, Battaglia, M, Hatfield-Dodds, S, Connor, JD & Keating, BA 2016, 'Scenarios for Australian agricultural production and land use to 2050', Agricultural systems, vol. 142, pp. 70-83. 11 9 15
2016	Momblanch, A, Connor, JD, Crossman, ND, Paredes-Arquiola, J & Andreu, J 2016, 'Using ecosystem services to represent the environment in hydro-economic models', Journal of hydrology, vol. 538, pp. 293-303. 2 2 1
2015	Bryan, BA, Crossman, ND, Nolan, M, Li, J, Navarro, J & Connor, JD 2015, 'Land use efficiency: anticipating future demand for land-sector greenhouse gas emissions abatement and managing trade-offs with agriculture, water, and biodiversity', Global change biology, vol. 21, no. 11, pp. 4098-4114. 10 7 18
2015	Bryan, BA, Huai, J, Connor, J, Gao, L, King, D, Kandulu, J & Zhao, G 2015, 'What actually confers adaptive capacity? Insights from agro-climatic vulnerability of Australian wheat', PLoS ONE, vol. 10, no. 2, pp. 1-20. Open access 6 6 1
2015	Connor, JD, Bryan, BA, Nolan, M, Stock, F, Gao, L, Dunstall, S, Graham, P, Ernst, A, Newth, D, Grundy, M & Hatfield-Dodds, S 2015, 'Modelling Australian land use competition and ecosystem services with food price feedbacks at high spatial resolution', Environmental modelling and software, vol. 69, pp. 141-154. 20 19 4
2015	Dong, M, Bryan, BA, Connor, JD, Nolan, M & Gao, L 2015, 'Land use mapping error introduces strongly-localised, scale-dependent uncertainty into land use and ecosystem services modelling', Ecosystem services, vol. 15, pp. 63-74. 15 12
2015	Kahil, MT, Connor, JD & Albiac, J 2015, 'Efficient water management policies for irrigation adaptation to climate change in Southern Europe', Ecological economics, vol. 120, pp. 226-233. 6 6
2015	Regan, CM, Bryan, BA, Connor, JD, Meyer, WS, Ostendorf, B, Zhu, Z & Bao, C 2015, 'Real options analysis for land use management: methods, application, and implications for policy', Journal of environmental management, vol. 161, pp. 144-152. 16 12
2014	Bark, R, Kirby, M, Connor, JD & Crossman, ND 2014, 'Water allocation reform to meet environmental uses while sustaining irrigation: a case study of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia', Water policy, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 739-754. 9 8
2014	Bryan, B, Nolan, M, Harwood, T, Connor, J, Navarro-Garcia, J, King, D, Summers, D, Newth, D, Cai, Y, Grigg, N, Harman, I, Crossman, N, Grundy, M, Finnigan, J, Ferrier, S, Williams, K, Wilson, K, Law, E & Hatfield-Dodds, S 2014, 'Supply of carbon sequestration and biodiversity services from Australia's agricultural land under global change', Global environmental change, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 166-181. 26 22 25
2014	Connor, JD, Kandulu, JM & Bark, RH 2014, 'Irrigation revenue loss in Murray-Darling Basin drought: an econometric assessment', Agricultural water management, vol. 145, pp. 163-170. 6 3
2014	Gao, L, Connor, JD & Dillon, P 2014, 'The economics of groundwater replenishment for reliable urban water supply', Water, vol. 6, no. 6, pp. 1662-1670. Open access 11 9 10
2014	Kandulu, JM, Connor, JD & MacDonald, DH 2014, 'Ecosystem services in urban water investment', Journal of environmental management, vol. 145, pp. 43-53. 10 8 1
2014	Kirby, J, Connor, J, Ahmad, M, Gao, L & Mainuddin, M 2014, 'Climate change and environmental water reallocation in the Murray-Darling Basin: Impacts on flows, diversions and economic returns to irrigation', Journal of hydrology, vol. 518, no. PA, pp. 120-129. 17 11
2014	Kirby, M, Bark, R, Connor, J, Qureshi, ME & Keyworth, S 2014, 'Sustainable irrigation: how did irrigated agriculture in Australia's Murray-Darling Basin adapt in the Millennium Drought?', Agricultural water management, vol. 145, pp. 154-162. 26 22
2013	Banerjee, O, Bark, R, Connor, J & Crossman, ND 2013, 'An ecosystem services approach to estimating economic losses associated with drought', Ecological economics, vol. 91, pp. 19-27. 22 18 6
2013	Bryan, B, Higgins, A, Overton, I, Holland, K, Lester, R, King, D, Nolan, M, MacDonald, DH, Connor, J, Bjornsson, T & Kirby, M 2013, 'Ecohydrological and socioeconomic integration for the operational management of environmental flows', Ecological applications, vol. 23, no. 5, pp. 999-1016. 12 10 6
2013	Connor, JD, Franklin, B, Loch, A, Kirby, M & Wheeler, SA 2013, 'Trading water to improve environmental flow outcomes', Water resources research, vol. 49, no. 7, pp. 4265-4276. Open access 16 15
2013	Gao, L, Connor, J, Doble, R, Ali, R & McFarlane, D 2013, 'Opportunity for peri-urban Perth groundwater trade', Journal of hydrology, vol. 496, pp. 89-99. 9 10
2013	Iftekhar, M, Tisdell, J & Connor, J 2013, 'Effects of competition on environmental water buyback auctions', Agricultural water management, vol. 127, pp. 59-73. 7 6 1
2013	Lane-Miller, CC, Wheeler, S, Bjornlund, H & Connor, J 2013, 'Acquiring water for the environment: lessons from natural resources management', Journal of environmental policy and planning, vol. 15, no. 4, pp. 513-532. Open access 11 7 2
2012	Connor, J 2012, 'Econometric assessment of the impact of drought on Murray-Darling Basin irrigation', WIT transactions on ecology and the environment, vol. 168, pp. 41-49. Open access
2012	Connor, JD, Schwabe, K, King, D & Knapp, K 2012, 'Irrigated agriculture and climate change: the influence of water supply variability and salinity on adaptation', Ecological economics, vol. 77, pp. 149-157. 35 33 3
2012	Garrick, D, Bark, R, Connor, J & Banerjee, O 2012, 'Environmental water governance in federal rivers: opportunities and limits for subsidiarity in Australia's Murray-Darling River', Water policy, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 915-936. 25 22
2012	Kandulu, JM, Bryan, BA, King, D & Connor, JD 2012, 'Mitigating economic risk from climate variability in rain-fed agriculture through enterprise mix diversification', Ecological economics, vol. 79, pp. 105-112. 19 18 3
2012	Loch, A, Bjornlund, H, Wheeler, S & Connor, J 2012, 'Allocation trade in Australia: a qualitative understanding of irrigator motives and behaviour', Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, vol. 56, no. 1, pp. 42-60. 25 23
2012	Schwabe, KA & Connor, JD 2012, 'Drought issues in semi-arid and arid environments', Choices, vol. 27, no. 3, pp. 1-5.
2011	Higgins, A, Bryan, B, Overton, I, Holland, K, Lester, R, King, D, Nolan, M & Connor, J 2011, 'Integrated modelling of cost-effective siting and operation of flow-control infrastructure for river ecosystem conservation', Water resources research, vol. 47, no. 5, article no. W05519, pp. 1-14. 13 11
2011	Rowan, TS, Maier, HR, Connor, J & Dandy, GC 2011, 'An integrated dynamic modeling framework for investigating the impact of climate change and variability on irrigated agriculture', Water resources research, vol. 47, no. 7, article no. W07520, pp. 1-13. 4 2
2010	Crossman, ND, Connor, JD, Bryan, BA, Summers, DM & Ginnivan, J 2010, 'Reconfiguring an irrigation landscape to improve provision of ecosystem services', Ecological economics, vol. 69, no. 5, pp. 1031-1042. 28 24
2010	Qureshi, M, Schwabe, K, Connor, J & Kirby, M 2010, 'Environmental water incentive policy and return flows', Water resources research, vol. 46, no. 4, article no. W04517, pp. 1-12. 36 26
2010	Yang, W, Bryan, BA, Hatton, MD, Ward, JR, Wells, G, Crossman, ND & Connor, JD 2010, 'A conservation industry for sustaining natural capital and ecosystem services in agricultural landscapes', Ecological economics, vol. 69, no. 4, pp. 680-689. 19 17
2009	Connor, J, Schwabe, K, King, D, Kaczan, D & Kirby, M 2009, 'Impacts of climate change on lower Murray irrigation', Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, vol. 53, no. 3, pp. 437-456. 35 32
2009	Connor, JD, MacDonald, DH, Morrison, M & Cast, A 2009, 'Evaluating policy options for managing diffuse source water quality in Lake Taupo, New Zealand', Environmentalist, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 348-359. 5
2009	Spencer, T, Ancev, T & Connor, J 2009, 'Improving cost effectiveness of irrigation zoning for salinity mitigation by introducing offsets', Water resources management, vol. 23, no. 10, pp. 2085-2100. 4 3
2008	Connor, J 2008, 'The economics of time delayed salinity impact management in the River Murray', Water resources research, vol. 44, no. 3, article no. W03401, pp. 1-11. 17 11
2008	Connor, JD, Ward, J, Clifton, C, Proctor, W & MacDonald, DH 2008, 'Designing, testing and implementing a trial dryland salinity credit trade scheme', Ecological economics, vol. 67, no. 4, pp. 574-588. 13 12
2008	Connor, JD, Ward, JR & Bryan, B 2008, 'Exploring the cost effectiveness of land conservation auctions and payment policies', Australian journal of agricultural and resource economics, vol. 52, no. 3, pp. 303-319. 54 44
2008	Ward, J, Connor, JD & MacDonald, DH 2008, 'Designing tradable credit policy for diffuse source salinity Ex Ante', Society and natural resources, vol. 21, no. 10, pp. 930-943. 3 3

Conferences

Year	Output
2012	Connor, J, Ahmad, M, King, D, Banerjee, O, Mainuddin, M & Gao, L 2012, 'Murray Darling Basin irrigation adaptation to drought: a statistical evaluation', 56th AARES annual conference, CSIRO, pp. 1-16-.
2012	Kirby, M, Connor, J, Bark, R, Qureshi, E & Keyworth, S 2012, 'The economic impact of water reductions during the millennium drought in the Murray-Darling Basin', 56th AARES annual conference, CSIRO, pp. 1-16-.
2012	Kirby, M, Mainuddin, M, Gao, L, Connor, J & Ahmad, M-u-D 2012, 'Integrated, dynamic economic-hydrology model of the Murray-Darling Basin', 56th AARES annual conference, CSIRO, pp. 1-16-.
2009	Gorddard, R, Connor, J & Ranjan, R 2009, 'Environmental triage decisions during a drought', 53rd Annual conference of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, CSIRO, pp. 1-15.
2008	Connor, J, Schwabe, K & King, D 2008, 'Irrigation to meet growing food demand with climate change, salinity and water trade', 2nd International Conference on Sustainable Irrigation Management, Technologies and Policies, Sustainable Irrigation 2008, WIT Press, vol. 112, pp. 43-52. 1

Reports

Year	Output
2014	Ahmad, MD, Ali, R, Banerjee, O, Hodgson, G, Connor, J & Rahman, MH 2014, Bangladesh integrated water resources assessment: final report, CSIRO, Australia. Open access
2012	King, D, Connor, J, Laughlin, I & Meyer, W 2012, Interactive land use strategic assessment (ILSA) tool: scientific methods and tool design, CSIRO, Australia. Open access
2012	Smajgl, A, Hatfield-Dodds, S, Connor, J, Young, M, Newth, D, Kirby, M & Banerjee, O 2012, Energy-water nexus for green growth: towards a better basis for policy and investment decisions, CSIRO, Australia.
2011	Connor, J, Banerjee, O, Kandulu, J, Bark, R & King, D 2011, Socioeconomic implications of the guide to the proposed basin plan: methods and results overview, Goyder Institute for Water Research, Australia. Open access
2011	Kaczan, D, Qureshi, M & Connor, J 2011, A summary of water trade and price data for the Southern Murray-Darling Basin, CSIRO, Australia. Open access

Other outputs

google scholar link:

https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=EHHYNKAAAAAJ&hl=en

researchgate link:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jeffery_Connor/info

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Highlights

Drought Mitigation & Preparedness: Benefits of Action & Costs of Inaction Workshop, World Bank, Washington, D.C.; 26 and 27 April 2017

External engagement & recognition

Collaborations

Organisation	Country
Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services	BANGLADESH
Charles Sturt University	AUSTRALIA
CSIRO	AUSTRALIA
CSIRO Australia (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation)	AUSTRALIA
Deakin University	AUSTRALIA
Goulburn Murray Water	AUSTRALIA
Ibero-American University (Universidad Iberoamericana)	MEXICO
La Trobe University	AUSTRALIA
Monash University	AUSTRALIA
National Rehabilitation Hospital	IRELAND
Quaid-i-Azam University	PAKISTAN
SA Department for Water	AUSTRALIA
Sinclair Knight Merz	AUSTRALIA
South China Agricultural University	CHINA (EXCLUDES SARS AND TAIWA
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia	SPAIN
University of Adelaide	AUSTRALIA
University of Alberta	CANADA
University of Bonn	GERMANY
University of California	UNITED STATES
University of California, Riverside	UNITED STATES
University of Canterbury	NEW ZEALAND
University of Guelph	CANADA
University of Malaya	MALAYSIA
University of Oxford	UNITED KINGDOM
University of Pretoria	SOUTH AFRICA
University of Queensland	AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia	AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney	AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania	AUSTRALIA
Zhejiang University	CHINA

External engagement & recognition

Engagement/recognition	Year
Consultancy - A Literature Review on the use of Agent-based Modelling and pre-existing ‘behavioural parameters’ for DSD economic development decision-making Objectives South Australian Department of State Development	2017
Member International Water Resource Economics Consortium	2017
Member International Society of Ecological Economists	2017
Member Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society	2017
Plenary World Bank Workshop on Drought and Proactive Policy to Manage Drought	2017
Reviewer Land Use Policy	2017
Reviewer Plos One	2017
Reviewer Global Environmental Policy	2017
Reviewer Environmental Modelling & Software	2017
Reviewer Journal of Environmental Policy	2017
Reviewer Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics	2017
Reviewer Journal of Hydrology	2017
Reviewer Water Resource Economics	2017
Reviewer Water Economics and Policy	2017
Reviewer Water Resources Research	2017
Agriculture Flagship Director’s Impact Delivery Award CSIRO	2015
Convenor Economics Community of Practice initiative CSIRO	2014
President South Australian Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Ec onomics Society	2014
Convenor Economics Community of Practice initiative CSIRO	2013
President South Australian Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Ec onomics Society	2013
President South Australian Branch of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Ec onomics Society	2012
Associate Editor Journal of Hydrology	2010
Award for Partnership Excellence CSIRO	2007
Fulbright fellowship Australian-American Fulbright Commission	1988

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