Antipodean agricultural and resource economics at 60: natural resource management

Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics

Sample Courses and Course Materials in Agricultural Economics Supported in part by the National Science Foundation, the DLESE offers access to electronic materials in all aspects of earth science education, including agricultural economics, for both teachers and learners at all levels. Has searchable database with such materials as maps, images, online courses, field and lab activities, curricu...

Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management

It is widely agreed the Anthropocene has seen an unprecedented decline in the natural resources conditions that have underpinned the economic growth of the last few hundred years. As communities, we have not responded to Boulding’s vision of ‘the coming space ship earth’ although not for want of much official and private effort. As ‘wicked problems’ the impacts have been often ignored or off lo...

Handbook of Natural Resource and Energy Economics

Promoting Natural Resource Management with an Emphasis on Good Governance

Background and Objectives: Good governance has received a lot of attention regarding the better management of natural resources, because of its efforts to improve the ability of the natural resource management system. In other words, good governance can affect the socio-economic components of the region and ultimately the improvement of natural habitats. In this regard, evaluating good governan...

Subject Pools and Deception in Agricultural and Resource Economics Experiments

The use of student subjects and the role of deception in economic experiments are two controversial issues that have been widely discussed in the agricultural and resource economics (ARE) community recently. We provide a self-contained methodological discussion of these issues from the perspective of the larger experimental economics community. Our main points are that field professionals are m...