Archive Issues

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Issue #19, July 2005

In Brief
PhD Scholarships * Trends in Australian agriculture report

Articles
SIF3: An investment framework for managing dryland salinity in Australia. By Anna Ridley and David Pannell
Geophysical-bioeconomic targeting of plant-based land use change for management of stream water yield and salinity. Tom Nordblom, Iain Hume, Andrew Bathgate and Michael Reynolds.
Research issues for future agriculture: an economist's perspective. By Ross Kingwell

 

 

Issue #18, March 2005

In Brief
PhD Scholarship * SALT Magazine and Focus on Salt

Articles
Someone has to pay... any volunteers? By Dave Pannell
Novel multi-disciplinary approaches suggest profitable and sustainable farming systems for valley floors at risk of salinity, by Ed Barrett-Lennard et al.
Adoption of conservation tillage in Australian cropping regions: an application of duration analysis, by Frank D'Emden et al.
 

Issue #17, November 2004

In Brief
* NDSP Salinity management resource kit * Pannell Discussions * McKell Medal * AWI Scholarships * Research meets policy - improve the uptake of your research * OECD report: Biomass and agriculture

Articles
Sustainability, externalities and economics: what does it mean for temperate perennial grazing systems?
Innovative grazing systems for Western Australia: meeting the perennial challenge.
Farm and catchment benefits of reducing recharge to ameliorate dryland salinity: an economic study of the Boorowa River catchment in NSW.
 

Issue #16, July 2004

In Brief
* Positions available * Natural resource management on Australian farms * House of Representatives salinity report 

Articles
Economics and the conservation of native biodiversity
Effects of climate change on optimal farm plans in a low rainfall Mediterranean environment of Australia
Envelopes of catchment water-yield and salt-load targets attainable with plant-based management of dryland salinity
Lucerne-based pasture for the central wheatbelt region of Western Australia – whole-farm economics

Issue #15, March 2004

In Brief
* Commonwealth EMS guidelines - Productivity Commission draft report on land clearing restrictions - Sustainable rangelands - 48th Annual AARES Conference - Australian Lands - W.E. Wood Award

Articles
Effectively communicating economics to policy makers (part 2)
Comparing profitability and cashflows of agroforestry and agriculture on Australian farms
Flat-earth economics: The far-reaching consequences of flat payoff functions in economic decision making
Economics and policy for biological introduction decisions: Plant based solutions to dryland salinity

 

Issue #14, Nov 2003

In Brief
Economic evaluation of salinity management options - Water rights in Australia and overseas - Spring 2003 edition of Connections available - WA Landcare awards - Economist position available

Articles
Rethinking community-based integrated catchment management
Farm forestry, carbon sequestration credits and discount rates
Effectively communicating economics to policy makers (part 1)
Economic evaluation of phase-farming with lucerne on the Esperance sandplain

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

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)

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?

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)

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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 (in 1999)?
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

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

Issue #1, May 1998

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