Professor Sarah Wheeler

Professor Sarah Wheeler
 Position Professor
 Org Unit Economics
 Email sarah.wheeler@adelaide.edu.au
 Telephone +61 8 8313 9130
 Location Floor/Room 3 ,  Nexus 10 ,   North Terrace

  • Biography/ Background

    Sarah is a visiting Professor of Water Economics and leads the Water, Environment and Food Economics policy group (WEF group) within the College of Business, Government and Law at Flinders University. Prior to this she was a Professor of Water Economics with the School of Economics and Public Policy. She is a past President and a Distinguished Fellow of the Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society (AARES), and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. Sarah graduated with her PhD in 2007, was an ARC Future Fellow (2014-2018), and has over 150 peer-reviewed outputs in the research areas of irrigated farming, climate change, Murray-Darling Basin, food waste, organic farming, water markets, water scarcity and mental health. In 2023, Sarah was awarded the Jill Hudson award for environmental protection at the SA Environment Awards, and in 2024 she was awarded the Distinguished Public Policy fellow award by the Economic Society of Australia.


    She is an Associate Editor of Agricultural Economics, and has been past editor of the Australasian Journal of Water Resources,      and past Associate Editor of Water Resources and Economics, the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and guest editor for a special issue of Agricultural Water Management. Sarah is on a number of editorial boards, including: International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Water. 


    Sarah was born on an irrigated dairy farm in NSW, and grew up on a dryland mixed farm at the top of the Great Dividing Range in the New England region. She has worked as an economist both nationally and internationally, in places such as Rural Solutions South Australia, ESCAP United Nations (Bangkok), Environment Agency (UK) and the South Australian Centre for Economic Studies. 

     

  • Qualifications

    PhD - University of South Australia (2007)

    Bachelor Economics (Hons) - University of Adelaide (1996)

  • Research Interests

    Water Markets

    Environmental and Agricultural Economics
    Organic Agriculture
    Water Trading
    Food Waste
    Gambling and Crime

  • Research Funding

    Please see my researcher profile for all my latest grant funding.

  • Publications

    Please see my researcher profile for all my latest publications.

  • Professional Associations

    Water, Environment and Food economics policy group (WEF), University of Adelaide

    Environment Institute (EI), University of Adelaide

    Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia

    AARES (Australasian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society)

    Food, Energy, Environment and Water Network (FE2W)

    International Water Resource Economists Consortium

    Centre for Water Economics and Policy, ANU

    International Association of Agricultural Economists

    American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)

    European Association of Economics Resource Economics (EAERE)

    Women in Economics Network, Australia (WEN)

     

     

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Entry last updated: Friday, 9 Aug 2024

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