Nature-based tourism may provide a well-structured format to facilitate opportunities for wellness. This research collected in-depth data from 72 tourists to explore the holistic wellbeing outcomes of experiences at the Mt. Barney Lodge in Queensland, Australia. We found that the Lodge offers a...

Making use of data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey coupled with air pollution data on PM10 exceedances generated by The Air Pollution Model (TAPM), this paper employs the life satisfaction approach to estimate the cost of PM10 exceedances from human...

This paper uses the life satisfaction approach to value Australia's protected areas, grouped by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) categories. We find significant positive life satisfaction effects of living in close proximity to protected areas in three of the seven...

The life satisfaction approach has recently emerged as a new technique in the suite of options available to non-market valuation practitioners. Employing data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), this paper examines...

The narrative of the twentieth century is dominated by three key trends: population growth, economic growth and urbanisation. Moreover, these trends are expected to continue well into the twenty-first century. Australia has not been immune to these trends. Australia’s population is projected...

Ecologists frequently note the importance of modelling entire ecosystems rather than single species, but most bioeconomic models in the current literature focus on a single species. While the mathematical difficulty of multiple species may quickly become overwhelming, sometimes making the single...

Part I: framing -- Introduction -- History haunts our present -- Framing the future -- Part II: the challenge questions -- Question 1: does your business' vision perpetuate a world you want to live in? -- Question 2: is your business aligned with our world? -- Question 3: does your business...