Resource economics is the principal focus of the Environmental Economics Program in the Centre for Environmental Management at CQUniversity.
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Professor John Rolfe |
Dr Jill Windle |
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. To help navigate this site, an overview of the material is provided in the Table below.
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.
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Webpage title |
Description |
Resources available |
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CERF - Environmental Economics Research Hub |
Research reports cover two main themes: |
A number of research reports available with regular updates |
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Non market valuation |
A range of valuation studies including longitudinal valuations in the series Valuing Floodplain Development in the Fitzroy Basin 2000-2004 |
Multiple research reports |
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MBI projects |
Ten MBI case studies 2003-2008 |
Multiple research reports |
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Resource economics |
A guide to resource economics |
Information |
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Benefit transfer |
A Systematic Database for Benefit Transfer of NRM Values in Queensland: A step by step guide |
Information |
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Market-based instruments |
An outline and overview of applications in Queensland |
Information |
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Hymenachne |
A multidisciplinary project hosted on this website |
Final report available |
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AgSIP reports |
AgSIP (Agriculture - State-level Infrastructure Project) funded under the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality. The project aimed at proving advice and information on resource economics. |
Project reports, conference papers and presentations on: |
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AgSIP Workshops |
Three main workshops: |
Presentations and some papers/ summaries available |
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Other publications |
Related journal publications and books/chapters |