Natalie is an economist with a track record of collaborative research and is motivated by a desire to find ways of helping people to capitalise on the good things that development has to offer, while minimising the bad. Specialising in non-market valuation, she considers economic aspects of sustainable development and of environmental/natural resource management in terrestrial and marine environments. She has a deep respect for different knowledges and ‘ways of knowing’ – irrespective of whether knowledge is gained through formal western education systems, traditional knowledge systems (including, but not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island knowledge) and/or through lived experience.