Research Fellow
Behavioural economics; social learning; social dimensions of individual choice; volunteerism; agri-environmental policy
Phone: +61 2 6125 0854
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: helena.clayton@anu.edu.au

Helena has completed an Honours (UNE) and Masters degree (USYD) in agricultural and resource economics and is currently completing her PhD thesis on the social dimensions of market incentives for environmental management.

Professional Activities

Helena has undertaken policy-oriented research in a range of contexts relating to environmental management in primary production systems, both in Australia and SE Asia. As part of an ACIAR project she investigated policy issues related to the socio-economic drivers of land degradation in the integrated aquaculture systems in southern Vietnam. In her PhD research she has investigated factors that influence biodiversity conservation activities on farms in the broad-acre agricultural regions of Western Australia and Victoria. This research has drawn upon theory from the social psychology to investigate the interactions that might exist between socially-based motivations and market-based incentives for biodiversity conservation.

Academic Highlights

Conducting my PhD research within the multidisciplinary, policy-oriented CRC for Dryland Salinity (now Future Farm Industries CRC).

Selected Publications

Clayton, H and Pannell, D (2006) 'Balancing production, conservation and NRM: socioeconomic considerations in policy design', Paper presented at the Fenner Conference on the Environment, Shine Dome, Canberra, 8-9 November

Clayton, H (2003), 'Bioeconomic factors in sedimentation related land loss in the natural rice-shrimp system', Ch.11, in Nigel Preston and Helena Clayton (eds.) Rice-Shrimp farming in the Mekong Delta: sustainability issues, ACIAR Technical Report No. 52E. ACIAR, Canberra

Brennan, D., Clayton, H., Tran, B. (2000), 'Economic characteristics of extensive shrimp farms in the Mekong Delta', Aquaculture Economic and Management, 4 (3/4)