Dr Sally Driml specialises in natural resource and environmental economics. She has extensive experience in government in developing environmental policy and has recently focused on development of market based instruments for environmental management. Her experience includes: developing environmental policy and economic studies in climate change; market based instruments; pollution management; sustainable tourism and tourism industry issues, values of protected areas, fishing and forestry; and environmental economics methods.

Dr Driml’s experience in tourism includes management of tourism in protected areas whilst working for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and the Queensland Environmental Protection Agency and serving on advisory bodies. She has undertaken research into the economic values of tourism in protected areas, including a major study on in the Wet Tropics World Heritage Area. Dr Driml commenced as a Senior Research Fellow in the School of Tourism in 2009. Current areas of research include the economic value of tourism in national parks and protected areas and issues for investment in tourism in Australia. She has published in journals including Ecological Economics, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Coral Reefs, and Australian Journal of Environmental Management.