Overview
Anna is an ecological economist and sustainable development specialist. She has industry and academic experience including collaborative interdisciplinary research, technical consulting, and business development. Her current research themes and projects include:
- Ocean plastic pollution, sustainable development and remote coastal communities
- Circular economy, circular business models, recycling strategies and sustainable supply chains
- Economics of plastic pollution, emerging plastic credit marketplace
- Demand-led innovation to reduce, recover, and recycle plastics in the corporate sector
Dr Phelan leads one of the 2020 BEL Connect Grants and is the Principal Investigator for the Global Change Institute Flagship Project - Small Island Initiative for a Plastic Free Ocean - research project investigating factors contributing to ocean plastic pollution in Indonesia.
Anna is also the Director and academic coordinator of the UQ Global Change Scholars Program (GCSP), working with high-performing PhD students from across the university on issues of global change and research leadership. Anna has designed and delivered research studies and was part of the Business Development team for the Capturing Coral Reef & Related Ecosystem Services (CCRES) project, focused on alternative sustainable livelihoods that protect and enhance coastal ecosystem services. As part of the project, Anna developed the ecosystem-based business development (EbBD) approach and toolkit for low-resource coastal communities.
Research Impacts
Phelan, Anna (2018) Ecosystem-based business development approach for coastal communities, Capturing Coral Reef and Related Ecosystem Services Project, www.ccres.net
Panellist and guest speaker for Deloitte business meetup
Panellist and guest speaker for Australia New Zealand Produce Manufacturers Association
Policy brief to Indonesian government through Indonesian Insitute of Science on Managing Plastic Pollution in Indonesia
Featured in the Tackling Ocean Pollution UQ Business School media release Jan 2019
Science presenter at the 2018 Woodford Folk Music Festival – Ocean plastic pollution and sustainable livelihoods
Keynote for the UQ Centre of Marine Science (CMS) Talkfest 2020.
Quoted in Boomerang Alliance media release - Plastic Pollution: why helping our pacific neighbours is important
Invited keynote – State University of Makassar - Universitas negeri Makassar
Collaborative projects / grants:
Global Strategy and Partnerships Seed Funding Scheme - Collaborative workshop and seminar on Wetland Ecosystem Services and Law and Policy Frameworks
Member of the UQ Business School Business Sustainability Initiative (IRT) - The IRT has recently been awarded the QUEX initiator grant award in partnership with the Centre for Circular Economy at the University of Exeter
Awarded 2020 BEL Connect Grant
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy, Qld. UT
Publications
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Book Chapter: The Circular Economy
Prideaux, Bruce and Phelan, Anna (2022). The Circular Economy. Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. (pp. 1-3) edited by D. Buhalis. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Journal Article: Ocean plastic crisis—mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities
Phelan, Anna (Anya), Ross, Helen, Setianto, Novie Andri, Fielding, Kelly and Pradipta, Lengga (2020). Ocean plastic crisis—mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities. PLoS ONE, 15 (7) e0236149, e0236149. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236149
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Other Outputs: Circular economy and the water sector of South East Queensland
Wade, Belinda, Humphrey, Jacquelyn, Hopkinson, Peter, Hu, Shihu, Meath, Cristyn, Phelan, Anna and Turner, Cameron (2020). Circular economy and the water sector of South East Queensland. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Business School, University of Queensland.
Publications
Book Chapter
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Prideaux, Bruce and Phelan, Anna (2022). The Circular Economy. Encyclopedia of Tourism Management and Marketing. (pp. 1-3) edited by D. Buhalis. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: Edward Elgar Publishing.
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Towards sustainable and equitable solutions through responsible innovation and the circular economy
Phelan, Anna (2020). Towards sustainable and equitable solutions through responsible innovation and the circular economy. Ecological economics: solutions for the future. (pp. 328-340) edited by Hayden Washington. Online: Independently published through Kindle Direct Publishing.
Journal Article
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Ocean plastic crisis—mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities
Phelan, Anna (Anya), Ross, Helen, Setianto, Novie Andri, Fielding, Kelly and Pradipta, Lengga (2020). Ocean plastic crisis—mental models of plastic pollution from remote Indonesian coastal communities. PLoS ONE, 15 (7) e0236149, e0236149. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0236149
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Phelan, Anna (Anya), Doody, Kathleen, Ward, Jack F. , Ng, Zheng Yen, Watson, Ebony, Fogg, Lily, Dutton-Regester, Kate, Vargas Soto, Rocio, Prada, Karla Ximena Vazquez, Yan, Hogmin, Wilson, Annaleise, Vanden Berg, Timothy, Arkhipov, Alexander, Bugeja, Jessica, Allen, Matthew and Hinkelmann, Stefan (2020). Leaving a place better than you found it; making a difference and restoring ecosystems on the Great Barrier Reef. Solutions Journal, 11 (2).
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Phelan, Anna (Anya), Ruhanen, Lisa and Mair, Judith (2020). Ecosystem services approach for community-based ecotourism: towards an equitable and sustainable blue economy. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 28 (10), 1-21. doi: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1747475
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Ross, Helen, Adhuri, Dedi S., Abdurrahim, Ali Yansyah and Phelan, Anna (2019). Opportunities in community-government cooperation to maintain marine ecosystem services in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania. Ecosystem Services, 38 100969, 100969. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2019.100969
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Phelan, Anna (Anya), Dawes, Les, Costanza, Robert and Kubiszewski, Ida (2017). Evaluation of social externalities in regional communities affected by coal seam gas projects: a case study from Southeast Queensland. Ecological Economics, 131, 300-311. doi: 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2016.09.010
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A new valuation school: integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions
Jacobs, Sander, Dendoncker, Nicholas, Martin-Lopez, Berta, Barton, David Nicholas, Gomez-Baggethun, Erik, Boeraeve, Fanny, McGrath, Francesca L., Vierikko, Kati, Geneletti, Davide, Sevecke, Katharina J., Pipart, Nathalie, Primmer, Eeva, Mederly, Peter, Schmidt, Stefan, Aragao, Alexandra, Baral, Himlal, Bark, Rosalind H., Briceno, Tania, Brogna, Delphine, Cabral, Pedro, De Vreese, Rik, Liquete, Camino, Mueller, Hannah, Peh, Kelvin S. -H., Phelan, Anna, Rincon, Alexander R., Rogers, Shannon H., Turkelboom, Francis, Van Reeth, Wouter ... Washbourn, Carla-Leanne (2016). A new valuation school: integrating diverse values of nature in resource and land use decisions. Ecosystem Services, 22 (B), 213-220. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.11.007
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Facing the true cost of fracking; social externalities and the role of integrated valuation
Phelan, Anna (Anya) and Jacobs, Sander (2016). Facing the true cost of fracking; social externalities and the role of integrated valuation. Ecosystem Services, 22 (B), 348-358. doi: 10.1016/j.ecoser.2016.11.006
Other Outputs
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Circular economy and the water sector of South East Queensland
Wade, Belinda, Humphrey, Jacquelyn, Hopkinson, Peter, Hu, Shihu, Meath, Cristyn, Phelan, Anna and Turner, Cameron (2020). Circular economy and the water sector of South East Queensland. Brisbane, QLD Australia: UQ Business School, University of Queensland.
