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Resource Economics

Resource economics is the principal focus of the Environmental Economics Program in the Centre for Environmental Management at CQUniversity.

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.

Webpage title

Description

Resources available

CERF - Environmental Economics Research Hub

Research reports cover two main themes:
1. Assessing protection values for the Great Barrier Reef research reports
2. Developing metric assessments research reports

A number of research reports available with regular updates

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

MBI projects

Ten MBI case studies 2003-2008

Multiple research reports

Resource economics

A guide to resource economics

Information - educational material

Benefit transfer

A Systematic Database for Benefit Transfer of NRM Values in Queensland: A step by step guide

Information- educational material

Market-based instruments

An outline and overview of applications in Queensland

Information- educational material

Hymenachne

A multidisciplinary project hosted on this website

Final report available

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:
1. Production economics
2. Non Market Valuation

AgSIP Workshops

Three main workshops:
2005 Production economics
2006 Market based instruments
2007 Economic valuation

Presentations and some papers/ summaries available

Other publications

Related journal publications and books/chapters