Resource economics is the principal focus of the Environmental Economics Program in the Centre for Environmental Management at CQUniversity.
Staff contacts:
| Professor John Rolfe Centre Director and Program Leader Tel: 07 4923 2132 Email: j.rolfe@cqu.edu.au |
Dr Jill Windle Research Fellow Tel: 07 4930 9089 Email j.windle@cqu.edu.au |
Resource econmics helps to identify and evaluate tradeoffs associated with changes in production and environmental protection, both separately and together. Economic techniques are particularly useful in evaluating potential synergies and tradeoffs associated with dual goals of agricultural production and environmental protection.
This website provides a guide to economic techniques that might be available to evaluate different issues and design solutions. Materials are provided through the overview, reports and workshops pages.
The material is designed to cover three broad areas of resource economics:
- Issues dealing with synergies and tradeoffs between agriculture and the environment across different landscapes and industries,
- Assessing the demands by different communities for managing landscapes, protecting the environment and taking the needs of communities into account, and
- Designing policy and institutional mechanisms that provide better incentives to manage production and natural resource systems.