Integrated Catchment Management (ICM) can be viewed as an institutional instrument designed to ameliorate losses of economic efficiency that have arisen due to incomplete specification of the privileges and restrictions attached to property rights. If applied appropriately ICM can facilitate the...

Economic losses and costs associated with weeds in dryland cotton production areimportant, both for growers and for industry bodies when making decisions aboutresearch priorities and research and development funding. A survey was conducted toprovide information on weed types, control strategies...

A recent analysis indicated that the direct financial cost of weeds to Australia’s wintergrain sectorwas approximately $A1.2bn in 1998–1999. Costs of thismagnitude representa large recurring productivity loss in an agricultural sector that is sufficient to impactsignificantly on regional...