The aim of this paper is to analyse the regional economic impacts of a prolongedperiod of recurrent droughts. The model used for analysis is TERM-H2O, a dynamicsuccessor to the bottom-up, comparative static TERM (The Enormous RegionalModel). We concentrate on the regions of the southern...

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...