About SEA News

SEA News is a newsletter on bioeconomic and social research on Sustainability and Economics in Agriculture. SEA News contains unpublished and working papers which focus on a wide range of sustainability and economic issues for agriculture. Issues covered include salinity, market-based instruments, adoption of innovations, greenhouse, ethics, policy and more. Through SEA News, we hope to introduce you to a large and diverse area of research which might otherwise escape your notice.

SEA News is produced by the Economic and Social Assessment subprogram of the CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity. However the content and articles included in SEA News is not limited to only research from the Economic and Social Assessment subprogram and submissions from outside the program are welcome. Please contact the editors Felicity Flugge or Robyn Hean at seanews@agric.wa.gov.au if you would like more information about SEA News or wish to make a contribution.

Information about the CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity can be found on their website: http://www1.crcsalinity.com.

The objective of the Economic and Social Assessment subprogram of the CRC for Plant-based Management of Dryland Salinity is to evaluate economic performance of actual and potential CRC outputs and develop policy options recognising the socio-economic opportunities and constraints that lead to the adoption of new land use systems. Research involves computer modelling, surveys, experimental economics, and analysis of a range of economic, social and bio-physical data. More information about the projects of the subprogram can be found on the CRC website:  http://www1.crcsalinity.com.au/pages/subprograms.aspx?SUBPROGRAMID=13

Copyright note: Some articles in SEA News have subsequently been submitted for publication in journals or books. SEA News contains pre-publication versions of these articles. They have not been subject to peer review, and copyright rests with the authors. When an article is formally published, the version on the SEA News web site is not updated to the published version, as this would violate copyright. However, the citation shown on the web page is updated to allow readers to identify the published version. Readers are encouraged to make use of the material present on the web site, provided that its source is acknowledged. Readers who wish to make direct quotes from an article in SEA News should not attribute the quote to a more formal (e.g. journal) published version of the paper without checking the published version, since the quote may have been altered or even omitted from the published version.