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Issue #13, Sep 2002 |
In Brief
Creating markets for ecosystem
services - Are we sustaining Australia? - Desalination report - Property
rights and the rural environment
Articles
The human dimensions of integrated weed
management
Non-commercial trees on wheatbelt farms
National economic and policy issues in the productive use of salinised
resources
Explaining groundwater depths in saltland
Economics of including pasture in a crop rotation for integrated weed
management
Research Methodology
Including land values in analysis of land
conservation investments
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Issue #12, Sep 2002 |
In Brief
New web site for
Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of Dryland
Salinity - OECD meeting on agri-biodiversity indicators - Policy and
Economic Research Unit newsletter
Articles
How do we
move salinity policy forward?
The role of saltland pastures in the farming system
Triple-bottom-line accounting: How serious is it?
Adoption of herbicide resistance management practices by farmers
Loving, losing and living with our environment
Options for dryland salinity management
Book Review
"The Skeptical
Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg
Research Methodology
Prose, psychopaths and persistence
(personal perspectives on publishing)
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Issue #11, Dec 2001 |
In Brief
New web
site for Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of
Dryland Salinity - "Connections - Farm, Food and Resource Issues" -
Biodiversity economics and policy
Articles
Harry
Potter and the pendulums of perpetual motion
Emerging markets for environmental
markets
What is the value of a sustainability indicator?
Farmer perceptions of the herbicide resistance
‘wall’
Public funding for environmental issues: Where to now? |
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Issue #10, Sept 2001 |
In
Brief
New salinity web site - Salinity economics workshop at NSW Agriculture
Articles
Economics of salinity in wheatbelt valleys
Detecting the impacts of salinity treatments
on groundwater depths
Economic dimensions of landcare
Social dimensions of landcare
Risk, uncertainty and learning in the adoption of
new agricultural practices
Policy
Forum
A new policy position on salinity (extract from report of Salinity Taskforce)
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| Issue #9,
June 2001 |
In
Brief
New
Cooperative Research Centre for salinity - Salinity policy task
force in Western Australia - OECD report on environmental impacts
of agriculture
Articles
A multi-species model for
Integrated weed management
The economics of desalination
Commercial tree crops to achieve greenhouse
gas neutrality
Oil mallee must look to multi-product
industries
Policy
Forum
Dryland salinity: Inevitable, inequitable, intractable?
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| Issue #8,
Dec 2000 |
In
Brief
W.E.
Wood Award to Richard George - Obituary: Emeritus Professor
Gordon Lee (Bill) McClymont, AO 1920-2000 - Landcare
Policy
Forum
Salinity policy: A tale of fallacies, misconceptions and hidden
assumptions
Articles
The
value of "green manuring" for managing a
herbicide-resistant weed
Explaining groundwater trends
Assessing greenhouse gas abatement
policies
Ethics and the economics of
environmental care
The RIM model for integrated weed
management
Market-based economic instuments
for dryland salinity
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Risk
and the adoption of new farming technologies in Argentina
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| Issue #7,
July 2000 |
In
Brief
Herbicide Resistance Model. Saltland Pastures. Salinity Economics and Policy.
Policy
Forum
Ethics
and Dryland Salinity
Articles
Decision Support for
Integrated Weed Management
Adoption of Integrated Weed Management to
Conserve the Herbicide Resource
Economic and Social Factors in Herbicide
Resistance Management
Evaluation of Salinity Policies, Past and
Present
Economics of Deep Rooted Perennials
in Southern Australia
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| Issue #6,
April 2000 |
In
Brief
Herbicide resistance model selling well. Looking back from 2020.
Workshop on sustainability indicators. Lessons for agriculture
from health "extension". Mallee Sustainable Farming Project web
page.
Policy
Forum
Salt
levy? The Complex Case for Public Funding of Salinity
(detailed article plus newspaper article)
Salinity Off-Site Effects (reprise)
(newspaper article)
Radio Interview on Salinity Policy
Article
Community Attitudes to Land
Degradation Issues and Responsibilities in Western Australia
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Sustainability Indicators for Natural
Resource Management & Policy
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| Issue #5,
Nov 1999 |
In
Brief
Launch
of RIM - Ryegrass Integrated Management decision support system.
Soil monitoring kits. New web site on sustainable rural
development. Acid sulfate soils - farmers' ideas. Carbon trading.
Policy
Forum
Rethinking the Externality Issue for Dryland Salinity
Articles
Understanding Farmers'
Monitoring of Groundwater Levels
Farmer Perceptions of Dryland
Salinity
"Salty Business": A Game
for Learning About Farm Management and Salinity
The Adoption Problem for Dryland
Salinity
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| Issue #4,
June 1999 |
In
Brief
New
AARES web page/forthcoming conference. Salinity projects at UWA. New salinity farm-management game.
Environmental economics symposium.
Articles
Economics of Research to
Enhance Monitoring of Soil Acidity
A Review of Regional Economic
Studies of Dryland Salinity
Policy
Forum
Perceptions of Alternative
Salinity Policies by Agency Staff
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Making Use of Salt Affected Lands of
Irrigated Farms in Pakistan
Research
Methodology
Sensitivity analysis.
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| Issue #3, Feb 1999 |
In
Brief
Weeds/technology transfer
meeting.
Articles
The economics of monitoring
crops at the micro level: Precision weed management
Dryland Salinity Control: What Do We
Usefully Know?
Uncertainty and Adoption of Sustainable
Farming Systems
Policy
Forum
Research & Development
Priorities for Salinity in Western Australia
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Smallholder Adoption of Soil Conservation
Technologies in The Philippines
Research
Methodology
Social
Surveying
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Issue #2, Sep 1998
|
In
Brief
Claying water-repellent
soils, adoption of innovations - The Mallee Sustainable
Farming Project.
Articles
What
can agricultural researchers do to encourage the adoption of
sustainable farming systems?
Using individual-farm models for resource
conservation problems: Positives and pitfalls
Why is adoption of sustainable farm
practices slow?
Economics of crop/tree phase
farming for dryland salinity management
Policy
Forum
Comments by Phil Price on
sustainability, Landcare and regulation
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Adoption of Organic Agriculture in Europe:
Economic and Non-Economic Determinants
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Issue #1,
May 1998
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Articles
Sustainable agriculture: what does it mean?
What we think we know about
extension, and why it's not enough for Landcare
Adoption of sustainable farming
practices - social and economic challenges
The value of monitoring
sustainability indicators
Policy
Forum
Comments by Dave Pannell on
the Western Australian Salinity Action Plan
Comments by Ted Lefroy on the Western
Australian Salinity Action Plan
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Farmers' attitudes to policies to
reduce phosphorous runoff in the US
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