Australian rangelands science – a strategic national asset

Making HR a Strategic Asset

Climate change impacts on Australian Rangelands

The recent IPCC Fourth Assessment report concluded that Australia has significant vulnerability to the changes in temperature and rainfall projected under climate change (Hennessy et al. 2007). Agriculture and natural resources were two of the key sectors identified as likely to be affected strongly. Extensive grazing is by far the most widespread agricultural land use in Australia. Most of the...

Indian Diaspora as a Strategic Asset

With one of the largest pools of relatively low wage semi-skilled and skilled labour, India is poised as a critical of global sourcing of labour. How can India take advantage of these future trends, so as not only to maximise the welfare of Indians outside the country, but that of those within the country as well? Can international migration and the diaspora be a strategic asset for the country...

Strategic Uncertainty in Asset Markets

We develop a noisy rational expectations equilibrium model of asset prices with informed and uninformed investors. In our model, informed investors affect the asset’s dividend payoff through their investment, thus have coordination incentives. They receive heterogenous private signals about the asset’s fundamental value and observe its price. The uninformed investors observe only the price. The...

A tool for strategic biophysical assessment of a national economy - The Australian stocks and flows framework

The Australian Stocks and Flows Framework (ASFF) was developed to assess the biophysical longevity of the Australian economy, with top-down coverage of the whole physical economy based on bottom-up process-based detail. The ASFF employs mass-balance identities associated with stock and flow dynamics throughout the national economy and associated interaction with the environment. We show that th...