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Issue #19, July 2005
In Brief
PhD Scholarships * Trends in Australian agriculture report
Articles
SIF3: An investment framework for managing dryland salinity in
Australia. By Anna Ridley and David Pannell
Geophysical-bioeconomic targeting of plant-based land use change for
management of stream water yield and salinity. Tom Nordblom, Iain Hume,
Andrew Bathgate and Michael Reynolds.
Research issues for future agriculture: an economist's perspective. By
Ross Kingwell

Issue #18, March 2005
In Brief
PhD Scholarship * SALT Magazine and Focus on Salt
Articles
Someone has to pay... any volunteers? By Dave Pannell
Novel multi-disciplinary approaches suggest profitable and sustainable
farming systems for valley floors at risk of salinity, by Ed Barrett-Lennard
et al.
Adoption of conservation tillage in Australian cropping regions: an
application of duration analysis, by Frank D'Emden et al.

Issue #17, November 2004
In Brief
* NDSP Salinity management resource kit * Pannell
Discussions * McKell Medal * AWI Scholarships * Research meets policy -
improve the uptake of your research * OECD report: Biomass and
agriculture
Articles
Sustainability, externalities and economics: what does it mean for
temperate perennial grazing systems?
Innovative grazing systems for Western Australia: meeting the perennial
challenge.
Farm and catchment benefits of reducing recharge to ameliorate dryland
salinity: an economic study of the Boorowa River catchment in NSW.

Issue #16, July 2004
In Brief
* Positions available * Natural resource management on
Australian farms * House of Representatives salinity report
Articles
Economics and the conservation of native
biodiversity
Effects of climate change on optimal farm plans in a low rainfall
Mediterranean environment of Australia
Envelopes of catchment water-yield and salt-load targets attainable with
plant-based management of dryland salinity
Lucerne-based pasture for the central wheatbelt region of Western
Australia – whole-farm economics

Issue #15, March 2004
In Brief
* Commonwealth EMS guidelines - Productivity Commission
draft report on land clearing restrictions - Sustainable rangelands -
48th Annual AARES Conference - Australian Lands - W.E. Wood Award
Articles
Effectively communicating economics to
policy makers (part 2)
Comparing profitability and cashflows of agroforestry and agriculture on
Australian farms
Flat-earth economics: The far-reaching consequences of flat payoff
functions in economic decision making
Economics and policy for biological introduction decisions: Plant based
solutions to dryland salinity

Issue #14, Nov 2003
In Brief
Economic evaluation of salinity management options - Water
rights in Australia and overseas - Spring 2003 edition of Connections
available - WA Landcare awards - Economist position available
Articles
Rethinking community-based integrated
catchment management
Farm forestry, carbon sequestration credits and discount rates
Effectively communicating economics to policy makers (part 1)
Economic evaluation of phase-farming with lucerne on the Esperance
sandplain

Issue #13, Sep 2002
In Brief
Creating markets for ecosystem
services - Are we sustaining Australia? - Desalination report - Property
rights and the rural environment
Articles
The human dimensions of integrated weed
management
Non-commercial trees on wheatbelt farms
National economic and policy issues in the productive use of salinised
resources
Explaining groundwater depths in saltland
Economics of including pasture in a crop rotation for integrated weed
management
Research Methodology
Including land values in analysis of land
conservation investments

Issue #12, Sep 2002
In Brief
New web site for
Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of Dryland
Salinity - OECD meeting on agri-biodiversity indicators - Policy and
Economic Research Unit newsletter
Articles
How do we
move salinity policy forward?
The role of saltland pastures in the farming system
Triple-bottom-line accounting: How serious is it?
Adoption of herbicide resistance management practices by farmers
Loving, losing and living with our environment
Options for dryland salinity management
Book Review
"The Skeptical
Environmentalist" by Bjorn Lomborg
Research Methodology
Prose, psychopaths and persistence
(personal perspectives on publishing)

Issue #11, Dec 2001
In Brief
New web
site for Cooperative Research Centre for Plant-Based Management of
Dryland Salinity - "Connections - Farm, Food and Resource Issues" -
Biodiversity economics and policy
Articles
Harry
Potter and the pendulums of perpetual motion
Emerging markets for environmental
markets
What is the value of a sustainability indicator?
Farmer perceptions of the herbicide resistance
‘wall’
Public funding for environmental issues: Where to now?

Issue #10, Sept 2001
In
Brief
New salinity web site - Salinity economics workshop at NSW Agriculture
Articles
Economics of salinity in wheatbelt valleys
Detecting the impacts of salinity treatments
on groundwater depths
Economic dimensions of landcare
Social dimensions of landcare
Risk, uncertainty and learning in the adoption of
new agricultural practices
Policy
Forum
A new policy position on salinity (extract from report of Salinity Taskforce)

Issue #9,
June 2001
In
Brief
New
Cooperative Research Centre for salinity - Salinity policy task
force in Western Australia - OECD report on environmental impacts
of agriculture
Articles
A multi-species model for
Integrated weed management
The economics of desalination
Commercial tree crops to achieve greenhouse
gas neutrality
Oil mallee must look to multi-product
industries
Policy
Forum
Dryland salinity: Inevitable, inequitable, intractable?

Issue #8,
Dec 2000
In
Brief
W.E.
Wood Award to Richard George - Obituary: Emeritus Professor
Gordon Lee (Bill) McClymont, AO 1920-2000 - Landcare
Policy
Forum
Salinity policy: A tale of fallacies, misconceptions and hidden
assumptions
Articles
The
value of "green manuring" for managing a
herbicide-resistant weed
Explaining groundwater trends
Assessing greenhouse gas abatement
policies
Ethics and the economics of
environmental care
The RIM model for integrated weed
management
Market-based economic instuments
for dryland salinity
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Risk
and the adoption of new farming technologies in Argentina

Issue #7,
July 2000
In
Brief
Herbicide Resistance Model. Saltland Pastures. Salinity Economics and Policy.
Policy
Forum
Ethics
and Dryland Salinity
Articles
Decision Support for
Integrated Weed Management
Adoption of Integrated Weed Management to
Conserve the Herbicide Resource
Economic and Social Factors in Herbicide
Resistance Management
Evaluation of Salinity Policies, Past and
Present
Economics of Deep Rooted Perennials
in Southern Australia

Issue #6,
April 2000
In
Brief
Herbicide resistance model selling well. Looking back from 2020.
Workshop on sustainability indicators. Lessons for agriculture
from health "extension". Mallee Sustainable Farming Project web
page.
Policy
Forum
Salt
levy? The Complex Case for Public Funding of Salinity
(detailed article plus newspaper article)
Salinity Off-Site Effects (reprise)
(newspaper article)
Radio Interview on Salinity Policy
Article
Community Attitudes to Land
Degradation Issues and Responsibilities in Western Australia
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Sustainability Indicators for Natural
Resource Management & Policy

Issue #5,
Nov 1999
In
Brief
Launch
of RIM - Ryegrass Integrated Management decision support system.
Soil monitoring kits. New web site on sustainable rural
development. Acid sulfate soils - farmers' ideas. Carbon trading.
Policy
Forum
Rethinking the Externality Issue for Dryland Salinity
Articles
Understanding Farmers'
Monitoring of Groundwater Levels
Farmer Perceptions of Dryland
Salinity
"Salty Business": A Game
for Learning About Farm Management and Salinity
The Adoption Problem for Dryland
Salinity

Issue #4,
June 1999
In
Brief
New
AARES web page/forthcoming conference. Salinity projects at UWA. New salinity farm-management game.
Environmental economics symposium.
Articles
Economics of Research to
Enhance Monitoring of Soil Acidity
A Review of Regional Economic
Studies of Dryland Salinity
Policy
Forum
Perceptions of Alternative
Salinity Policies by Agency Staff
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Making Use of Salt Affected Lands of
Irrigated Farms in Pakistan
Research
Methodology
Sensitivity analysis.

Issue #3, Feb 1999
In
Brief
Weeds/technology transfer
meeting.
Articles
The economics of monitoring
crops at the micro level: Precision weed management
Dryland Salinity Control: What Do We
Usefully Know (in 1999)?
Uncertainty and Adoption of Sustainable
Farming Systems
Policy
Forum
Research & Development
Priorities for Salinity in Western Australia
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Smallholder Adoption of Soil Conservation
Technologies in The Philippines
Research
Methodology
Social
Surveying

Issue #2, Sep 1998
In
Brief
Claying water-repellent
soils, adoption of innovations - The Mallee Sustainable
Farming Project.
Articles
What
can agricultural researchers do to encourage the adoption of
sustainable farming systems?
Using individual-farm models for resource
conservation problems: Positives and pitfalls
Why is adoption of sustainable farm
practices slow?
Economics of crop/tree phase
farming for dryland salinity management
Policy
Forum
Comments by Phil Price on
sustainability, Landcare and regulation
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Adoption of Organic Agriculture in Europe:
Economic and Non-Economic Determinants

Issue #1,
May 1998
Articles
Sustainable agriculture: what does it mean?
What we think we know about
extension, and why it's not enough for Landcare
Adoption of sustainable farming
practices - social and economic challenges
The value of monitoring
sustainability indicators
Policy
Forum
Comments by Dave Pannell on
the Western Australian Salinity Action Plan
Comments by Ted Lefroy on the Western
Australian Salinity Action Plan
Ideas and Lessons
on Sustainability from Overseas
Farmers' attitudes to policies to
reduce phosphorous runoff in the US
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