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Tihomir Ancev
Senior Lecturer in Resource and Environmental Economics

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Tiho graduated from the University Saints Cyril and Methodius in Skopje, Macedonia with a B.Sc. Honours Degree in Agriculture in 1992. After working at the Faculty Experimental Farm and in the private industry, he completed his M.Sc. Degree in Economics at the University of Iceland in 1998.
Tiho obtained his Ph.D. Degree in Agricultural Economics from the Oklahoma State University in June 2003 and joined the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, at The University of Sydney in July 2003. Tiho recently completed a Graduate Certificate in Educational Studies (Higher Education).

Tiho’s research interests are in the fields of the economics of agricultural pollution, water economics, economics of carbon emissions and the design of carbon emissions trading mechanisms, and in the use of GIS in environmental and natural resource economic analysis. He supervises postgraduate research students working in these research areas. Tiho has particular research interest in the economics of efficient environmental targets. He has been recently involved in projects on water quality and quantity management, both in an Australian and international context.

Tiho is currently a Postgraduate Research Coordinator for the Agricultural and Resource Economics group. Tiho is an active member, and a former state and federal officer of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.

Semester 1

RSEC 4132 Environmental Economics
The Environmental Economics component of GEOS 3113

Semester 2

RSEC 4134 Economics of Water&Bio-resources
RSEC 4133 Economics of Minerals and Energy Industries

Tiho was awarded the 2008 Dick Jackson Award for Excellence in Teaching (Undergraduate) by the Faculty of Food, Agriculture and Natural Resources, University of Sydney.

Book Chapters:

  1. Ancev, T., Azad, Md. A. S., Den, D.T., and M. Harris. 2009. ‘Technical Efficiency of Shrimp Farms in Mekong Delta, Vietnam.’ In: Beckmann, V., Dung, N.H., Spoor, M., Shi, X. and J. Wesseler, (Eds.) Economic Transition and Natural Resource Management in East and Southeast Asia. Shaker Publishing, Aachen. In Press.

Journal Articles:

  1. Betz, R., Sanderson, T., and T. Ancev. 2009.‘In or out: Efficient inclusion of installations in an Emissions Trading Scheme?’ Journal of Regulatory Economics. Accepted, In press.
  2. Lee, L.Y., and T. Ancev. 2009. ‘Two Decades of Murray-Darling Water Management: A River of Funding, a Trickle of Achievement.’ Agenda, 16 (1): 5-23.
  3. Spencer, T., Ancev, T. and Connor, J. 2009. ‘Improving cost effectiveness of irrigation zoning for salinity mitigation by introducing offsets.’ Water Resources Management 23 : 2085–2100, doi: 10.1007/s11269-008-9371-4.
  4. Manandhar, R., Odeh, O.I., and T. Ancev. 2009. ‘Improving the Accuracy of Land Use and Land Cover Classification of Landsat Data Using Post-Classification Enhancement’ Remote Sensing, 1(3), 330-344; doi:10.3390/rs1030330.
  5. Spencer, T., Ancev, T. and Connor, J. 2008. ‘Improving cost effectiveness of irrigation zoning for salinity mitigation by introducing offsets.’ Water Resources Management. DOI 10.1007/s11269-008-9371-4. On-line first.
  6. Ancev, T. 2008. ‘All Costs Considered: Should Agriculture be a Part of a National ETS?’ Farm Policy Journal 5: 35-43
  7. Lee, L.Y., T. Ancev and W. Vervoort. 2007. ‘Environmental and Economic Impacts of Water Scarcity and Market Reform on the Mooki Catchment.’ The Environmentalist 27: 39-49
  8. Ancev T. and Vervoort R.W. 2007 The national plan for water security: Taking over the role of the market? Connections: Farm, Food and Resource Issues. Paper 18/2007. Published online: http://www.agrifood.info/connections/2007/Ancer_Vervoort.html
  9. Ancev, T. 2006. ‘Optimality of Pre-Empting Natural Resource Regulation.’ Australian Economic Papers 45: 169-178.
  10. Ancev, T., A.L. Stoecker, D.E. Storm and M.J. White. 2006. ‘Economics of Efficient Phosphorus Abatement in a Watershed’. Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics 31: 529-548.
  11. Ancev, T. and A.L. Stoecker. 2006. ‘Economics of an Irrigation System for Liquid Manure Application.’ Journal of Irrigation and Drainage Engineering 132: 399-405.
  12. McBratney, A., Whelan, B., Ancev, T., and Bouma, J., 2005. ‘Future Directions of Precision Agriculture.’ Precision Agriculture 6:1-17.

Refereed Conference Proceedings:

  1. Ancev, T. 2009. Learning about economic valuation of the environment using online simulations. In: Fernstrom, K. (Ed.) Readings in Technology and Education: Proceedings of ICICTE 2009, pp: 389-400
  2. Ancev, T., and Vervoort R.W. 2008. Provision of environmental flows through water markets under climate change, In Odeh, I.A., and Tan, K. D. (eds.) Proceedings from the Faculty Symposium Facing climate change: Research on adaptation of agro-ecosystems, 56-63.
  3. Rogers, D., Ancev, T., Minansy, B. and McBratney, A. 2007. ‘Incorporating economic criteria into the optimal delineation of management zones’, In J.V. Stafford (Ed.), Precision Agriculture '07, Wageningen Academic Publishers, p:851-858.
  4. Ancev, T. and R. Betz. 2006. Load-based Licensing: Getting the Rates Right. Proceedings of the 35th Conference of Economists, Perth, ISBN 1 74067 501 0, available at: http://www.business.curtin.edu.au/download.cfm?DownloadFile=1BB46B37-BD79-06BB-366172BE69C92CBF
  5. Ancev, T., B. Whelan and A. McBratney. 2005, ‘Evaluating the benefits from Precision Agriculture: The economics of meeting traceability requirements and environmental targets’. In J.V. Stafford (Editor), Precision Agriculture ’05, Proceedings from the 5th European Conference on Precision Agriculture, pp: 985-992, Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Recent Conference papers:

  1. Sanderson, T., T. Ancev, and R. Betz. 2009. Uniform Standard or Emissions Trading: What is the efficient coverage of companies? European Association of Environmental and Resource Economics, 17th Annual Conference, Amsterdam, 24-27 July.
  2. Pradhan, D., T. Ancev, R. Drynan, and M. Harris. 2009. Management of Water Reservoirs (Embungs) in West Timor, Indonesia. AARES Conference, Cairns, 10-13 February.
  3. Ancev, T., R. Lifran, and N. Tan. 2008. Cost-effective abatement of pollution from agricultural sources classified in risk classes, [[i13th World Water Congress]], Montpellier, 1-5 September.
  4. Azad, Md. A. S., M. Liem, T. Ancev, and L. Lee. 2008. Measuring Environmental Performance of Irrigated Cotton Enterprises, AARES Conference, Canberra, 8-11 February.
  5. Sanderson, T., T. Ancev, and R. Betz. 2008. Optimal coverage of installations in a Carbon Emission Trading Scheme (ETS), AARES Conference, Canberra, 8-11 February.
  6. Betz, R.A. and T. Ancev. 2007. Who to Include: Efficient Coverage of Emitters in GHG Tradable Permit Systems , 30th Conference of the International Association of Energy Economists, 18-21 February, Wellington, NZ.
  7. Ancev, T., 2006. Efficient Environmental Targets. Third World Congress of Environmental and Resource Economics, Kyoto, Japan
  8. Spencer, T. and T. Ancev. 2006. Offsetting with salinity credits: An alternative to irrigation zoning. 26th Conference of the International Association of Agricultural Economists, Gold Cost, Australia.
  9. Betz, R.A. and T. Ancev. 2006. Emissions Trading: How to Determine the Efficient Coverage?, 29th Conference of the International Association of Energy Economists, Potsdam, Germany.

    Harris, M. and T. Ancev, 2005. Alternative Approaches to Congestion Externalities: The place of Social Norms in Pigouvian and Coasean Traditions. AARES Conference, Coffs Harbour, February 2005.

Popular Press:

  1. Ancev, T. 2008. Oil Futures part 4: A series on oil, the future, and you. Crikey.com.au, 3rd June. http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20080603-Oil-Futures-part-4-A-series-on-oil-the-future-and-you.html
  2. Ancev, T. 2005. Credible Real Estate Agents. On Line Opinion. Australia’s e-journal of social and political debate. http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=2570

Recently funded research projects:

  1. Identifying economic and social constraints for water management in vegetable production in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT) and Nusa Tenggara Barat (NTB). Project funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR). Value: $145,000. Role: Project leader. Project completed 2008.
  2. Evaluating cost-effectiveness of reducing water pollution risks. Project funded by Environmental Trust NSW. Value: $20,000. Role: Chief Investigator. Project completed 2007.
  3. Capacity Building in Applied Natural Resource Economics and Management for Vietnam. Project funded under the CARD programme of AusAID. Value: $300,000. Role: Co-investigator. Project completed 2008.