Water resource management is a complex process, which requires suitable policy tools that are able to meet objectives of economic efficiency, social equity and environmental sustainability. Meanwhile, irrigation industry has to change its habitual behaviour in managing water when faced with...

A set of simulations were run to estimate the impact on gross margins due to improvements in cattle breeding efficiency and other management factors in extensive pastoral systems in Western Australia. The output from the simulations was integrated into a statistical model of gross margin as a...

The case of reduction in ad-valorem tariff as the trade liberalization policy is considered. It was showed that it leads to higher quality of imports, ceteris paribus. This hypothesis was tested on the case of Japanese beef imports from the United States and Australia. US beef, according to the...

We thank two anonymous referees and the Department of Climate Change for helpful comments. This research was supported financially by the Environmental Economics Research Hub of the Australian Government's Commonwealth Environment Research Facilities program.