While Clem Tisdell was commonly recognised as an ecological economist, his research interests were diverse. His contribution to the literature on the environment,
biodiversity conservation and
sustainable development notwithstanding, his research and writing encompassed various areas that included poverty, trade and
globalisation, economic development,
welfare economics, tourism,
natural resources, the economics and socioeconomics of China and India, socioeconomic gender issues, economic theory (e.g.,
bounded rationality and economic evolution) and the
history of economic thought. Clem Tisdell was among the top three most prolific economists in Australia. Apart from academic articles, he authored
microeconomics textbooks and monographs on the economics of environmental conservation. Under the
RePEc project (Research Papers in Economics), Tisdell was ranked among the top 5% of all registered economic authors. In terms of the 'number of distinct works' produced, RePEc ranked him No. 11 globally. ==References==