Professor Clevo Wilson

FIELDS OF EXPERTISE:

Tourism, environmental, ecological, agricultural, energy, and development economics, environmental valuation techniques, supply chain value analysis, efficiency and productivity analysis and structural equation modelling, water conservation, agriculture, aquaculture, transport, natural disasters (floods and wildfires), impact of major projects and pollution on property values, environmental sustainability and conservation of wildlife. EXPERIENCE

IN FIELDS OF EXPERTISE The following lists project and other activities Clevo has been involved listed by areas of expertise. More detailed information on these projects can be obtained upon request.

• Enhancing Regional Development of Tourism Product, Services, and Supply-Chains in Sri Lanka, World Bank study, completed in 2017 with Professor Brian Roberts and others.
• Economics of symbiosis between tourism and nature conservation: could countries such as Sri Lanka make use of these opportunities and cope with the challenges?
• Economic value of sea turtle and whale watching-based tourism in Mon Repos and Hervey Bay, Australia.
• Sea turtle hatchery-based tourism in Sri Lanka.
• Value of insect-based tourism in Australia.
• Sea bird-based tourism with a special emphasis on fairy penguins on Phillip Island, Australia.
• Antarctic tourism.
• Tree-kangaroo, tourism and conservation: a study of little known species in Australia.
• Crocodile farming-based tourism.
• A case study of an NGO’s ecotourism efforts – Mareeba, Far North Queensland, Australia
• National Parks based tourism – survey of selected national Parks in Queensland, Australia
• Determining urban water conservation and management strategies: a novel approach using field and survey data.
• Growing sustainable regions: developing a rural statistical sustainability framework
• Managing the social, environmental & economic impacts of high density living within inner urban sub-tropical environments.
• Economics of conserving Australian tropical wildlife:  An analysis of the role of economic valuation, property rights and commercialization.
• National climate change adaptation research facility (NCCARF) synthesis and integrative research program - Climate vulnerability assessment.
• Presence of Koalas and property values, multiplier effects of Koala conservation spending and developing a socio-economic research framework of Koala conservation, 2009-2010, Redland Shire Council.
• Cost-benefit analysis of early childhood education intervention in Victoria’, a report submitted to the Victorian Government Department of Treasury and Finance, Melbourne.
• The costs and benefits of early childhood intervention, 2007, Department of Treasury and Finance (OCS).
• Investing in early childhood, 2007, Department of Education and Children's Services.
• The review of the current approach to the setting of Child Care National Standards (2006). A Project commissioned by the Australian Government Department of Family Services and the Children’s Services Sub Committee of the Children’s Services Ministers Advisory Council of  COAG, Canberra, Australia.
• Cost benefit analysis of sessional employment at QUT’ (2005), Human Resources Department, Gardens Point, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
• ACIAR Project AS2/1994/023 (2001) on the “Breeding and Feeding Pigs in Australia and Vietnam”.

Title

Agri-Intelligence in Cotton Production Systems - Stage 1

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

QUT1701

Start year

2017

Keywords

Agriculture Cybernetics; Digital Agriculture; In-Farm Decision Support Systems; Management of Inputs in Agriculture; Value Chain of Cotton Crops

Title

Determining Urban Water Conservation And Management Strategies: A Novel Approach Using Field Experiment And Survey Data

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

DP0988254

Start year

2009

Keywords

Urban Water Conservation; Demand Side Management Instruments; Behavioural Economics; Environmental Psychology; Public Acceptability; Field Experiments

Title

Growing Sustainable Regions: Developing a Rural Statistical Sustainability Framework

Primary fund type

CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant

Project ID

LP0776795

Start year

2008

Keywords

Sustainable Regions; Rural Sustainability; Regional Growth; Spatial Decision Support Systems; Economic Development; Decision Making

• Economic Analysis of Sustainable Coffee Production in Vietnam (2018)
• Farmers' Perspectives on Autonomous and Planned Climate Change Adaptations: A Nepalese Case Study (2018)
• Economics of Optimal Management of Tourism Resources: A Demand and Supply Analysis (2017)
• Productivity and Efficiency of the Agricultural Sector: Africa with a Special Focus on Rice Farming and Processing in Kenya (2017)
• Floods and Property Values: A Hedonic Property and Efficiency Analysis (2015)
• Infrastructure, investment and development evaluation: A Complex Stakeholder Perception Mapping Approach for improving Local and Regional Economic Development outcomes (2015)
• Asymmetric information between buyers and sellers in the residential property market: a hedonic property valuation approach (2014)
• Theory and practice of automotive modal lock-in - an Indonesian case (2014)
• Agricultural Biodiversity, Farm Level Technical Efficiency and Conservation Benefits: An Empirical Investigation (2012)
• Essays on Irrigation Development, Farm Production and Unaccounted Costs: Theory and Empirical Evidence (2011)