Graeme Doole is a Professor of Environmental Economics (University of Waikato) and Economic Advisor (NZ Ministry for Environment).
His research involves the use of analytical and empirical methods to investigate how best to manage agricultural and natural systems.
A significant proportion of this work involves the formulation of appropriate policy instruments to achieve economic, environmental, and social outcomes from the regulation of agricultural and mining activity.
He has published broadly across diverse subject areas, including the design of computational algorithms to solve complex decision problems in applied economics, research outlining the importance of modelling spatial heterogeneity in policy design, modelling of herbicide resistance, evaluation of crop sequences to sustain agricultural production, determinants of the cost-effectiveness of alternative programs for biodiversity conservation, maximum entropy econometrics, and means to reduce the environmental impact of pasture-based grazing systems.