Associate Professor Mudiyanselage Gamini Herath

Present Position:
Associate Professor in Economics

Phone: +61 3 5227 3306
Email: gherath@deakin.edu.au

Campus: Geelong Campus at Waurn Ponds

Academic Qualifications: BSc, M.Ag.Dev.Ec. ANU PhD UNE

Commenced at Deakin: 2005

Books/publications/monographs
Reported in the Deakin University Annual Research Reports since 1995

Research interest

Economics of environmental management
Water resources and forestry
Economic development issues: eg Green revolution , privatisation and institutions

Edited Books:

Herath, Gamini, and Kishor Sharma, 2007, Child Labor in South Asia, Ashgate Publishing, UK.
Herath, Gamini and Tony Prato, 2006, Using multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Natural Resource Management, Ashgate Publishing, UK.

Publication Highlights

Ananda, J and Gamini Herath .2008, Multi-attribute preference modeling and Regional forest planning, Ecological Economics, in press.
Tony Prato and Gamini Herath 2007. Multiple criteria decision analysis for integrated catchment management, Ecological Economics, 63: 627-632.
Ananda, Jayanath and Gamini Herath .2005. Evaluating Public Risk Preferences in Forest Land Use Choices Using Multi-attribute Utility Theory, Ecological Economics, 55 :408-419.
Herath, Gamini. 2004. Wetland management :The use of the analytic hierarchy process, Journal of Environmental Management, 70(3): 263-273.
Ananda,J and Gamini Herath and A. Chisholm. 2001. Determination of Yield and Erosion Damage Function Using Subjectively Elicited Data: Application to Smallholder Tea in Sri Lanka, Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 45( 2):.275-289..

Current research projects

External Grants

Affiliations: Professional/Academic

Teaching Interests/units taught at Deakin