Tom Kompas

Economic efficiency versus social equity: The productivity challenge for rice production in a ‘greying’ rural Vietnam

HTM Nguyen, H Do, T Kompas

Journal article  |  2021  |  World Development

Increasing agricultural productivity is often deemed necessary to enhance rural income and ultimately narrow the urban–rural dispa..

Optimal surveillance against bioinvasions: a sample average approximation method applied to an agent-based spread model.

Hoa Thi Minh Nguyen, Pham Van Ha, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2021  |  Ecol Appl

Trade-offs exist between the point of early detection and the future cost of controlling any invasive species. Finding optimal lev..

Equilibrium Modeling for Environmental Science: Exploring the Nexus of Economic Systems and Environmental Change

Matthew Cantele, Payal Bal, Tom Kompas, Michalis Hadjikakou, Brendan Wintle

Journal article  |  2021  |  Earth's Future

Epidemiological modelling of the health and economic effects of COVID-19 control in Australia's second wave

R Quentin Grafton, John Parslow, Tom Kompas, Kathryn Glass, Emily Banks

Journal article  |  2021  |  JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH-HEIDELBERG

Background: We investigated the public health and economy outcomes of different levels of social distancing to control a 'second w..

Integrated perspective on translating biophysical to economic impacts of climate change

Franziska Piontek, Laurent Drouet, Johannes Emmerling, Tom Kompas, Aurelie Mejean, Christian Otto, James S Rising, Bjoern Soergel, Nicolas Taconet, Massimo Tavoni

Journal article  |  2021  |  NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE

Estimates of climate change’s economic impacts vary widely, depending on the applied methodology. This uncertainty is a barrier fo..

Health and economic costs of early and delayed suppression and the unmitigated spread of COVID-19: The case of Australia

Tom Kompas, R Quentin Grafton, Tuong Nhu Che, Long Chu, James Camac

Journal article  |  2021  |  PLOS ONE

We compare the health and economic costs of early and delayed mandated suppression and the unmitigated spread of 'first-wave' COVI..

A Global MetaUniversity to Lead by Design to a Sustainable Well-Being Future

Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Tom Kompas, Paul C Sutton

Journal article  |  2021  |  Frontiers in Sustainability

The COVID19 pandemic has revealed deep, ingrained problems with higher education, but also opportunities for positive transformati..

Approaches for estimating benefits and costs of interventions in plant biosecurity across invasion phases

Melissa J Welsh, James A Turner, Rebecca S Epanchin-Niell, Juan J Monge, Tarek Soliman, Andrew P Robinson, John M Kean, Craig Phillips, Lloyd D Stringer, Jessica Vereijssen, Andrew M Liebhold, Tom Kompas, Michael Ormsby, Eckehard G Brockerhoff

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nonnative plant pests cause billions of dollars in damages. It is critical to prevent or reduce these losses by intervening at var..

Pluralistic discounting recognizing different capital contributions: An example estimating the net present value of global ecosystem services

Robert Costanza, Ida Kubiszewski, Natalie Stoeckl, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2021  |  ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS

Discounting the future is essential to inform long-term decisions, but the future of humanity is being put in jeopardy by using th..

A generalised and scalable framework for modelling incursions, surveillance and control of plant and environmental pests

Richard Bradhurst, Danny Spring, Mark Stanaway, James Milner, Tom Kompas

Journal article  |  2021  |  Environmental Modelling & Software

Invasive plant and environmental pests can seriously impact environment, economy, health and amenity. It is challenging to form re..