Tisdell was born in Taree,
New South Wales on 18 November 1939.
He died on 14 July 2022 in Brisbane, Queensland.[1]
Academic background
Clem Tisdell obtained his bachelor's degree in Commerce (majoring in Economics) from the
University of New South Wales in 1961 and his doctorate in Economics from the
Australian National University in 1964. During his professorship he has occupied various academic offices: acting head of the Department of Economics at the
Australian National University, dean of the Faculty of Economics and Commerce at the
University of Newcastle, deputy director of the School of Marine Sciences and head of the Department of the School of Economics at the
University of Queensland.
Academic interests
While Clem Tisdell was commonly recognised as an ecological economist,[2] his research interests were diverse. His contribution to the literature on the environment,
biodiversity conservation and
sustainable development notwithstanding, his research and writing encompassed various areas that included poverty, trade and
globalisation, economic development,
welfare economics, tourism,
natural resources, the economics and socioeconomics of China and India, socioeconomic gender issues, economic theory (e.g.,
bounded rationality and economic evolution) and the
history of economic thought.[3]
Clem Tisdell was among the top three most prolific economists in Australia.[4][5] Apart from academic articles, he authored
microeconomics textbooks[6] and monographs on the economics of environmental conservation. Under the
RePEc project (Research Papers in Economics), Tisdell was ranked among the top 5% of all registered economic authors.[7] In terms of the 'number of distinct works' produced, RePEc ranked him No. 11 globally.[8]
^Patterson, M.G. (2006). "Development of ecological economics in Australia and New Zealand". Ecological Economics. 56 (3): 312–331.
doi:
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2005.09.011.
^RePEc. 2010. Top 5% Authors, as of January 2010: Number of Distinct Works.
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Selected publications
Books
Tisdell, Clem; Chai, J.C.H. (1997). China's economic growth and transition: Macroeconomic, regional, environmental and other dimensions. New York City:
Nova Science Publishers.
ISBN978-1-56072-524-4.
Tisdell, Clem (2005). Economics of environmental conservation (2nd ed.). Cheltenham, UK; Northampton, Massachusetts USA: Edward Elgar.
ISBN978-1-84376-614-8.
Tisdell, Clem (2010). Resource and environmental economics: Modern issues and applications. Singapore: World Scientific.
ISBN9789812833945.
Journal articles
Tisdell, Clem (March 1988). "Sustainable development: differing perspectives of ecologists and economists, and relevance to LDCs". World Development. 16 (3): 373–384.
doi:
10.1016/0305-750X(88)90004-6.
Tisdell, Clem (September 1997). "Capital/natural resource substitution: the debate of Georgescu-Roegen (through Daly) with Solow/Stiglitz". Ecological Economics. 22 (3): 289–291.
doi:
10.1016/S0921-8009(97)00089-X.
Tisdell, Clem; Wilson, Clevo; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath (2007), "Comparison of funding and demand for the conservation of the charismatic koala with those for the critically endangered wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii", in Hawksworth, David L.; Bull, Alan T. (eds.), Vertebrate conservation and biodiversity, Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer, pp. 435–455,
ISBN9781402063190.
Also available online as: Tisdell, Clem; Wilson, Clevo; Swarna Nantha, Hemanath (2007). "Comparison of funding and demand for the conservation of the charismatic koala with those for the critically endangered wombat Lasiorhinus krefftii".
Vertebrate Conservation and Biodiversity(PDF). Topics in Biodiversity and Conservation. Vol. 5.
Springer. pp. 435–455.
doi:
10.1007/978-1-4020-6320-6_29.
ISBN978-1-4020-6319-0.
Papers
Tisdell, Clem (2005). Elephants and polity in ancient India as exemplified by Kautilya's Arthasastra (Science of Polity). Working papers in Economics, Ecology and the Environment, No. 120. School of Economics, University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland.
Tisdell, Clem (2009). The production of biofuels: welfare and environmental consequences for Asia. Working papers in Economics, Ecology and the Environment, No. 159. School of Economics, University of Queensland: Brisbane, Queensland.