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Professor Natalie Stoeckl is with the Faculty of Law, Business and Creative Arts and the Cairns Institute at James Cook University. She describes herself as an economist with a keen interest in the environmental and social/distributional issues associated with economic growth. Natalie has extensive experience with a variety of non-market valuation techniques.

Dr. Rosemary Hill is the Research Team Leader, Geography, Human Ecology and Sustainability Science Group at CSIRO Cairns. Dr. Hill is a human geographer specialising in collaborative environmental governance and planning research with communities at multiple scales to foster social-ecological sustainability, with a particular focus on Indigenous systems. Her research interests lie in strategic natural resource governance and planning, specialising in biodiversity, sustainability, Indigenous and protected areas.

Professor Helene Marsh is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and the Dean of Graduate Research Studies at James Cook University. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering and Co-Leader of the Species of Conservation Concern program of the Australian Government’s National Environmental Research Program (NERP) Tropical Ecosystems Hub.