EconSearch Completed Project

Project: Scenario Planning for an Innovative Response to the Water Challenge in the Murray Riverina Region (2011)

Client: Regional Development Australia (RDA) Murray and RDA Riverina

Collaborators: Sinclair Knight Merz

Summary: The EconSearch contribution to this project was to generate regional and state-level estimates of the economic impact of industry growth opportunities identified during the course of the project. The opportunities were in the Forestry, Transport and Logistics, Health, Education and Tourism industries.

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AARES Annual Conference Presentation

8 - 10 February 2012: Lisa Rippin presented a poster on the Economic Indicators for the SA Charter Boat Fishery at the 56th Annual Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society Conference held in Fremantle.

FRDC Fisheries Economic Workshop

30 January - 3 February 2012: Lisa Rippin attended a FRDC funded fisheries economics workshop at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. The course focused on bioeconomic modellling of fisheries, vessel and fleet level productivity and efficiency, recreational fishing and biodiversity conservation, non-market valuation techniques and approaches to analysing fisher’s behaviour and the role of experimental economics.

Presentation on Developing the Carbon Neutral Investment Model for Local Government

December 2011: Heather Bailey (EconSearch) and Ben Heard (ThinkClimate Consulting) presented a paper entitled Developing the Carbon Neutral Investment Model for Local Government to the 35th annual conference of the Australian and New Zealand Regional Science Association International held in Canberra. This paper presented the work that EconSearch and ThinkClimate Consulting completed for the City of Onkaparinga.

RISE Modelling Presentation

2 December 2011: Imran Zawwar, a recent intern research officer with EconSearch, presented a paper on the basic method and introduction to the RISE model to policy makers, consultants, researchers, managers and students with interests in regional economics at Carnegie Mellon University, Adelaide.

Fishing for Sustainability

December 2011: Julian Morison along with Tor Hundloe, Kate Brooks and Andrew Sullivan co-authored a book titled Fishing for Sustainability, will your grandchildren have the option to eat seafood. The book, published by Bond University Press, illustrates how the integration of ecology, economics and sociology can assist commercial fishers and their government managers in preserving the seafood industry.