Biography

Anke completed her PhD at Cambridge University in 2006. She is an environmental and natural resource economist and is particularly interested in problems of optimal natural resource use and conservation under conditions of risk, uncertainty and irreversibility. She has applied her research on climate change adaptation to inform policy in the areas of optimal land use, biodiversity conservation, invasive species, salt marsh conservation and water management. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Economics at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and an Associate Editor of Environmental Conservation, Cambridge University Press.

Previous Education

University of Melbourne BA Environmental Studies/Japanese, Hon Environmental Economics, B.Com. Economics 1998
University of Cambridge MPhil Environmental Policy

Links

http://www.buseco.monash.edu.au/eco/staff/#academic
https://sites.google.com/a/monash.edu/anke-leroux/Home