Suresh Kanesh

Suresh Kanesh is Senior Lecturer and holds a Ph.D. in Economics at the School of Economics and Finance, Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Suresh has more than 16 years of teaching and research experience in Sri Lanka and overseas. His research interests focus on Environmental Economics, Tourism and Nature Conservation. He has published a number of papers in reputed Indexed Journals such as Land Use Policy, Tourism Economics, Heliyon and Economic Analysis and Policy. He has participated in numerous international conferences and training in Canada, Australia, U.A.E, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia and India. He is a Fellow at Higher Education Academy UK. Suresh is passionate about economics science by exploring symbiosis between tourism and nature conservation, especially how and under what circumstances tourism and tourism revenues as a compensation and conservation tool, particularly wild elephant conservation and mitigation of human-elephant conflict.

• Tourism Economics • Nature Conservation • Environmental Valuation • Climate Change Adaptation • Livelihood Development • Economic Policy