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Recommendations to Reform the National Electricity Market (NEM)
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Australia's National Electricity Market (NEM) was established in the late 1990s. The market is an energy only gross pool with zonal (state‐based) pricing. Over the past 15 years, the system has undergone a profound transformation as large coal‐fired power stations have retired and substantial volumes of large‐scale and embedded behind the ...
Tim Nelson +3 more
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The Feasibility of Household Food Waste Reduction in Finland: Insights From Five Consumer Profiles
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT We apply a household production framework to analyse how changes in cooking skills, waste‐abatement costs and wage rates influence the food waste behaviour of five consumer profiles in Finland. We find that achieving a given reduction in food waste through skill‐enhancing interventions induces larger behavioural adjustments than equivalent ...
Aino Friman, Dušan Drabik
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Alongside the 2024–2025 review of the National Electricity Market, Australian energy companies faced the most significant reforms to climate disclosures in corporate history. Specifically, the Australian Sustainability Reporting Standard for Climate‐related Disclosures (AASB S2) was announced in September 2024, after which all entities falling
Tracey Dodd +2 more
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study assesses how weather‐year‐dependent sheep and crop management tactics affect farm profitability and farm system greenhouse gas emissions in the central Great Southern region in Australia. To investigate the impact of farmers' tactical decisions on farm profit and emissions, a whole farm optimisation model known as the Australian ...
Michael Young, Ross Kingwell, John Young
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Rapid growth in digital finance has expanded credit access for rural smallholders, yet financial capability has not kept pace with access. Where fee structures are opaque and search is costly, this gap raises the risk of expensive borrowing in digital financial services.
Albert Nsengumuremyi +3 more
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of our study is to examine how migrant labour shifts due to the COVID‐19 pandemic influenced the adaptation behaviour of climate‐vulnerable farmers in Nepal. We examine how the resulting temporary change in climate change adaptation behaviour may be sustainable and improved after migrant labour returns to overseas employment by ...
Amrit Shrestha +4 more
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Excessive water use in rice production is a major source of methane emissions, the dominant greenhouse gas from Vietnam's agricultural sector. Improving water‐use efficiency can enhance water security and reduce emissions, but achieving these gains requires substantial changes in farming practices and significant investment in supporting ...
Nhat‐Mai Nguyen +6 more
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From Tap Water Access to Income‐Generating Work Time: Evidence From Rural China
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines whether household tap water access affects income‐generating work time among employed rural adults in China. While existing studies have mainly examined the effects of improved water access on employment participation, off‐farm transition and household income, this paper focuses on the intensive margin of labour supply ...
Yiyi Zhao
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Forces Behind South Australia's Unusual Structural Changes Since 1840
Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The agricultural sector's share of GDP in growing economies typically declines but, for a century from the early 1850s, Australia's did not. That trend is most evident for the former colony and now State of South Australia (SA). Moreover, that share for SA has been almost flat since 1980 as well, along with the agricultural sector's share of ...
Kym Anderson
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Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT With the retirement of 21GW of legacy coal fleet looming, the task to replace Australia's thermal capacity with alternative firmed renewable ‘bulk energy’ solutions is non‐trivial. Indeed, calibrating necessary capital investment in new plant stock with efficient economic outcomes, vis‐à‐vis cost and reliability, represents a fundamental ...
Nicholas Gohdes +2 more
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