# Caroline Saunders

Caroline Mary Saunders ONZM is a New Zealand academic, and as of 2020 is a Distinguished Professor at Lincoln University, specialising in environmental economics. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi.

## Academic career

After a BSc (Hons) at the University College of North Wales (now Bangor University), Saunders completed a PhD titled Intra-EC agricultural trade with special reference to wheat at Newcastle University in 1984. Saunders was then appointed as a lecturer at the University of Newcastle, before moving in 1996 to Lincoln University as a senior lecturer. Saunders was appointed as a Distinguished Professor in November 2020, one of only four at Lincoln University. She is Professor of International Trade and the Environment and is Director of the Agribusiness and Economics Research Unit.
Saunders's research focuses on environmental economics and trade. She is particularly known for her work on food miles, showing that New Zealand dairy products, lamb and apples in the British marketplace do not have a higher environmental impact than local products. Saunders has worked for the EU Commission, FAO, MFAT, the New Zealand Treasury, OECD and Fonterra, among others. She was also appointed as a member of the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee, and is a Director of Landcare Research.
Notable doctoral students of Saunders include Anita Wreford.

## Honours and awards

In 2007, Saunders was the NZIER Economist of the Year. She was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to agricultural research, in the 2009 New Year Honours.
Saunders was selected as one of the Royal Society Te Apārangi's 150 women in 150 words in 2017. She was on the Council of the Royal Society Te Apārangi from 2015 to 2018. In 2019, the Agricultural Economics Society in the UK appointed Saunders as its President, a role which she is still filling in a caretaker capacity as of 2021.
In March 2021, Saunders was made a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi, in recognition of her "outstanding contributions to the advancement of science by creating new knowledge in her research field of agriculture and economics".

## Selected works

* Peter Tait; Caroline Saunders; Graham Nugent; Paul Rutherford (21 December 2016). "Valuing conservation benefits of disease control in wildlife: A choice experiment approach to bovine tuberculosis management in New Zealand's native forests". Journal of Environmental Management. 189: 142–149. doi:10.1016/J.JENVMAN.2016.12.045. ISSN 0301-4797. PMID 28012389. Wikidata Q36232745.
* Peter Tait; Paul Rutherford; Caroline Saunders (20 November 2013). "Do consumers of manufactured cigarettes respond differently to price changes compared with their Roll-Your-Own counterparts? Evidence from New Zealand". Tobacco Control. 24 (3): 285–289. doi:10.1136/TOBACCOCONTROL-2013-051010. ISSN 0964-4563. PMID 24259046. Wikidata Q50140520.
* Ian J. Bateman; Roy Brouwer; Stavros Georgiou; Nick Hanley; Fernando Machado; Susana Mourato; Caroline Saunders (May 2005). "A 'Natural Experiment' Approach to Contingent Valuation of Private and Public UV Health Risk Reduction Strategies in Low and High Risk Countries". Environmental and Resource Economics. 31 (1): 47–72. doi:10.1007/S10640-004-6978-7. ISSN 0924-6460. Wikidata Q57922511.
* Caroline Saunders; Anita Wreford; Selim Cagatay (December 2006). "Trade liberalisation and greenhouse gas emissions: the case of dairying in the European Union and New Zealand". Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics. 50 (4): 538–555. doi:10.1111/J.1467-8489.2006.00343.X. ISSN 1364-985X. Wikidata Q58112249.
* Paul Dalziel; Caroline Saunders; Peter Tait; John Saunders; Sini Miller; Meike Guenther; Paul Rutherford; Tim Driver (9 April 2018). "Rewarding responsible innovation when consumers are distant from producers: evidence from New Zealand". International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. 21 (4): 487–504. doi:10.22434/IFAMR2017.0012. ISSN 1559-2448. Wikidata Q59225417.
* Paul Dalziel; Caroline Saunders (23 December 2016). "Treasury's refreshed views on New Zealand's economic strategy: a review article". New Zealand Economic Papers. 52 (1): 91–107. doi:10.1080/00779954.2016.1268196. ISSN 0077-9954. Wikidata Q59225421.
* Paul Dalziel; Caroline Saunders (2007). "Community initiatives for environment-based economic development in a depressed region: a case study from the West Coast of New Zealand". International Journal of Business and Globalisation. 1 (3): 391. doi:10.1504/IJBG.2007.015056. ISSN 1753-3627. Wikidata Q59225484.