PhD (Economics)(UQ), MA (Urban Geog)(Univ of Brit. Col), BSc (Hons)
Senior Lecturer, Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University
Contact Details for Dr Peter Daniels
Research Expertise
- climate change - economic and social strategies and policy
- sustainable consumption and production
– sustainable business, lifestyles, technology, ecological restructuring and modernisation of the economy - alternative measures of human progress - sustainable development, ethics, social sustainability (including links between Buddhism, economics and the environment)
- the economic valuation of environmental impacts (externalities)
- environmental economic policy instruments
- integrated water management and economics
- urban and household metabolism (environmental resource flow analysis)
- industrial ecology assessment and planning
- international competitiveness and environmental technology
- material and energy flow analysis – focus upon water, energy and greenhouse gas emissions
- sustainability indicators – including ecological footprint analysis, environmental-economic accounting
- the use of environmental input-output methods and life cycle analysis to assess sustainable consumption relating to water and energy in Australia, Queensland and South-East QLD
- life cycle assessment and hybrid life cycle and input-output analysis techniques for assessing the sustainability implications of goods and services, organisations, industries, infrastructure and urban form
- the impact of environmental policy upon national competitiveness and economic welfare
Current Teaching Areas
- 1161ENV Environmental Economics (Year 1; Convenor)
- 2281ENV Economics and Natural Resources (Year 2, Convenor)
- 3351ENV Ecological Economics (Year 3; Co-convenor)
Selected Publications
- Daniels, P.L. (2013) Ecological Economics and Policy – A Guide for Environmental Managers and Scientists. Routledge: Oxford.
- Daniels, P., Lenzen, M. & Kenway, S. (2011) “The Ins and Outs of water use - a review of multi-region input-output analysis and water footprints for regional sustainability and policy”, Economic Systems Research 23, 4, 353-370.
- Daniels, Peter L. (2011) “Ecological economics - transdisciplinary sustainability research.” In Jones, G. (Ed.) Research in Sustainability. New York: Palgrave MacMillan.
- Daniels, Peter L. (2011) “Sustainable Consumption – Ethical Foundations”. In Zsolnai, L. (Ed.) Buddhist Economics: Ethical Principles and Operational Models. Springer Verlag: Berlin.
- Kenway, S.K. Lant, P., Priestley, T., Daniels, P. (2011). “The water-energy nexus: A review.” Water Science and Technology, 63, 9, 1983-90.
- Stoeglehner, G., Edwards, P., Daniels, P. and Narodoslawsky, M. (2011) “The water supply footprint (WSF): A strategic planning tool for sustainable regional and local water supplies.” Journal of Cleaner Production, 19, 13.
- Daniels, Peter L. (2010) "Ecological Economics." Green Business: An A-to-Z Guide. 2010. SAGE Publications. http://www.sage-ereference.com/greenbusiness/Article_n47.html.eISBN: 9781412973793.
- Bauler, T., Douglas, I, Daniels, P. et al. (2007) “Meeting methodological challenges”. In Hak, T., Moldan, B., Dahl, A. (Eds.) Sustainability Indicators: A Scientific Assessment (Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment (SCOPE) Series). Island Press: Washington.
- Daniels, P. (2010) Climate change, economics and Buddhism - Part I : An integrated environmental analysis framework, Ecological Economics, 69 , 5, 962-972.
- Howes, M., McKenzie, M., Gleeson, B., Gray, R., Byrne, J., Daniels, P. (2010) Adapting Ecological Modernisation to the Australian Context. Journal of Integrated Environmental Sciences, 7, 1, 5-21.
- Daniels, P. (2007) Buddhism and the transformation to sustainable economies. Society and Economy 29, 2, 155–180.
- Daniels, P. and Moore, S. (2001) “Approaches for Quantifying the Metabolism of Physical Economies : Part I – Methodological Overview”, Journal of Industrial Ecology, 5,4, 69-93.