2020 UWA School of Agriculture and Environment Seminar Series - Agricultural and Resource Economics (AARES)

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Date and time

  • Held every Friday between 11 am - 12 noon

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  • Alumni
  • Business/Industry
  • Current students
  • Future students
  • Graduates or near graduates
  • Postgraduate
  • Postgraduate research
  • Public
  • Research
  • Staff
  • Studying at UWA

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  • Free

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About this Event

Agricultural and Resource Economics (AARES) Seminar Series investigates how the environment, natural resources and agricultural lands are managed. Agricultural activities have positive and negative impacts on the environment and our research studies how decisions, plans and policies can deliver the best outcome for the community.

Our research is focused on five key areas:

 

Agricultural economics and policies

We study the interactions between farming and the environment. Our research covers climate change impacts on agriculture, land degradation, carbon storage on farms, perennial farming systems, salinity management and more.

Economics of non-renewable resources and energy

We study how we can best use or conserve natural resources for maximum benefits. Our research covers mining and minerals, energy, land and more.

Environmental economics and natural resource management

We study how the environment can be managed to provide the greatest net benefits. Our research covers terrestrial and marine biodiversity conservation, pollution, bio-economic modelling of invasive pests, bushfire management, adoption of new conservation practices by landholders and more.

Food systems and agribusiness

We study how the organisation and governance of food systems can be improved. Our research covers efficiency and productivity analysis, farm risk management, wine economics, adoption of new farming technologies, agribusiness and more.

Water economics and policy

Our research covers the economics of public water supply, economic incentives and instruments for water management, economic modelling tools to assist with urban water management, and how non-market benefits can be incorporated into project evaluation.

 

Semester Two 2020 Seminar Program

Date

Presenter

Topic

7 August

Mr. Michael Young, ARE

Determining the optimal Sheep Stocking Rates for Broadacre Farm Businesses in Western Australia

14August

Ms. Christine Parfitt, ARE

 

To what extent can policy and behavioural interventions help reduce plastic pollution by households and firms?

21August

Dr. Liudmila Tarabashkina, UWA Business School

Creativity priming and product re-consumption at the end of product life-cycle

28August

Dr. Maksym Polyakov, Landcare Research, New Zealand

The cost of algal blooms in Swan-Canning River System

4September

Assoc/Prof. Michael Burton, ARE

Communitypreferences for rigs-to-reefs in Western Australia: an application of a hybrid choice model

11September

Assoc/Prof James Fogarty,

ARE

Recidivism and prison education programs revisited: evidence from the USA

18September

Dr. Ram Pandit, ARE

Values, valuation and IPBES: some observations

25September

Prof. Steven Schilizzi, ARE

How does outcome uncertainty affect the regulator’s ability to incentivize contracts in conservation auctions?

9October

Mr. Oscar Montes de Oca Munguia, ARE

Predicting the adoption of innovations in agriculture

16October

Ms. Karin Fogarty, ARE

Community attitudes on mine rehabilitation of open-cut coal mines in regional NSW.

23October

Dr. Milena Kiatkoski Kim, ARE

Using wellbeing to assess future scenarios – a multi-stakeholder approach

6November

Prof. Nick Hanley

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