Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics

Allan Rae (Professor Emeritus, Massey University, New Zealand), Ross Cullen (Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Lincoln University, New Zealand) and Geoff Kerr (Department of Environmental Management, Lincoln University, New Zealand) are all committed AARES members and have a long history of involvement with AARES and AJARE. Allan is a Past President of AARES, and Ross and Allan have served as members of the AJARE Editorial Board. They enthusiastically accept the challenge of making a substantial contribution to AARES by maintaining and enhancing the existing high quality of the Journal set by the outgoing editorial team.

Read the top five Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics articles accessed online:

The tragedy of the commons: property rights and markets as solutions to resource and environmental problems
Gary D. Libecap

On the economics of agricultural production
Jean-Paul Chavas

Subsidies and distortions in China's agriculture: evidence from producer-level data
Jikun Huang, Xiaobing Wang, Huayong Zhi, Zhurong Huang and Scott Rozelle

Managing complexity in modern farming
Ross Kingwell

Household size and residential water demand: an empirical approach
Fernando Arbués, Inmaculada Villanúa and Ramón Barberán

The Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics (AJARE) provides a forum for innovative and scholarly work in agricultural and resource economics. First published in 1997, the Journal succeeds the Australian Journal of Agricultural Economics and the Review of Marketing and Agricultural Economics, upholding the tradition of these long-established journals.

The editors and Wiley-Blackwell congratulate the winners of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics best paper prize for 2010, Dannele E. Peck and Richard M. Adams, for their article Farm-level impacts of prolonged drought: is a multiyear event more than the sum of its parts? published in Volume 54 Issue 1.

AARES membership news

AARES members now have full access to the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics via the AARES website. Please note the existing access method via Wiley Online Library logins will be disabled.

Members benefit from:
• Discount registration fees at AARES conferences and symposia
• Online access and/or a print copy of the Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics
• AARES' News and Views newsletter
• 25% discount on books from Wiley
• Awards for best theses, journal articles, presentations and more.

To renew your membership, go to the AARES website and click on renew your membership on the left-hand menu and follow the on-screen instructions.

Upcoming Conferences

56th National AARES Conference
7–10 February 2012
Fremantle, Western Australia
The Esplanade Hotel
Corner Marine Terrace and Essex Street
Fremantle, WA 6160

Special issue – Fisheries Economics

You can read the special issue on Fisheries Economics online now.

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