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Email

tom.kompas@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Professor Environmental Economics & Biosecurity
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences
Education
PhD
University of Toronto
ORCID

0000-0002-0665-0966

Prof Tom Kompas

Professor Environmental Economics & Biosecurity
School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences

167 Scholarly works
30 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Interdisciplinary challenges for wildfire futures
    DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104175
  • 2023

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Valuing the Impact of ACIAR Biosecurity Research to Australia and the Region
  • 2021

    Research grants (other domestic)

    Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis (Cebra) 2021 - 2025
  • 2021

    Journal article

    Pluralistic discounting recognizing different capital contributions: An example estimating the net present value of global ecosystem services
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2021.106961
  • 2017

    Journal article

    Optimal surveillance against foot-and-mouth disease: the case of bulk milk testing in Australia
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8489.12224
  • 2017

    Research Grant

    The SWARM Project
  • 2016

    Journal article

    A practical optimal surveillance policy for invasive weeds: An application to Hawkweed in Australia
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.07.003
Tom Kompas

Latest Honours,
Awards and Fellowships


2018
Best Paper Prize 2017, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
2016
Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (FASSA)
2015
Eureka Prize
2011
Editor's Choice Award, Water Resources Research, 2011

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2026

    Journal article

    Is global human well-being peaking?
    DOI: 10.1016/j.wds.2025.100265
  • 2026

    Journal article

    Current and future climate change impacts on Indigenous lifestyle and cultural values in Ovalau, Fiji
    DOI: 10.5751/ES-16933-310138
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Predicting changes in agricultural yields under climate change scenarios and their implications for global food security
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-87047-y
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Estimating the realised economic value of a historic Mediterranean fruit fly eradication
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-28594-2
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Rethinking responses to the world’s water crises
    DOI: 10.1038/s41893-024-01470-z
  • 2025

    Journal article

    An invasive species cost review for New South Wales, Australia, highlights key drivers and limitations of economic cost estimates
    DOI: 10.3897/neobiota.104.157434
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Global impacts of heat and water stress on food production and severe food insecurity
    DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-65274-z
  • 2024

    Journal article

    Normative learning generates behaviour change: The case of drowning prevention
    DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdrr.2024.104942

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