National Forum

Carl Binning

Carl Binning is a principle research economist at CSIRO Wildlife and Ecology. His research is focused on designing economic incentives and institutions for sustainable natural resource management. In the last three years this has involved developing mechanisms for the conservation of biodiversity outside public nature reserves. His key research capacities lie in the following areas: policy analysis; design of incentive based policy instruments; environmental management systems and institutional design for natural resource management.

Prior to joining CSIRO Carl worked as an environmental economist within the Commonwealth Environment Department and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. In this period he participated in the Ecologically Sustainable Development process, the Council of Australian Governments Water Reforms and the development of Regional Forest Agreements. In his other life Carl is a farmer growing superfine wool on a family farm near Yass NSW.