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New report by Ecolarge. When the cows don’t come home – The economic impacts of losing livestock in a disaster

Tristan — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 04:21:57 +0000

Ecolarge-LivestockDisasterEconomics-Final.pdf

What happens when the cows don’t come home? This report was commissioned by the World Society for the Protection of Animals and investigates the “economic impact of losing livestock in a disaster”. It covers a wide range of material relating to the role of livestock in development, the economics of disasters, the treatment

China First Coal Project Economic Assessment Reviewed

Roderick — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:59:03 +0000

Finishing off a big year of looking at large, controversial coal projects, we reviewed the economic assessment of the Galilee/China First project on behalf of the landholders of the Bimblebox Nature Refuge in central Queensland. The assessment is couched in positive terms, but none of its key findings are unambiguous – impacts on labour demand

Kevin’s Corner Coal Project Review

Roderick — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 09:41:15 +0000

We recently assisted Queensland’s Capricorn Conservation Council with a submission relating to the economic assessment of the Kevin’s Corner Coal project proposal. The economic assessment of the project, by consultants Economic Associates, fails to provide cost benefit analysis to evaluate if the project is in Queensland’s best interests. Given our recent exposure of $3.5 billion

Economists at Large Maul(es) Creek Proposal

Roderick — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 03:29:47 +0000

When was the last time you made a $3 billion dollar error? OK, how about a $200 million dollar error? Still no? Have you ever added up a bill and found it was $500 million out, only for the waiter to complain about your “stylised” methodology? These are just a few of the issues to

Review of Grand Prix economic assessment

Roderick — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:42:09 +0000

As promised in blog posts we have reviewed the Tourism Victoria and Ernst and Young Grand Prix economic assessment. We believe the Grand Prix does not provide a net benefit and in fact reduces the welfare of Victorians. Tourism Victoria’s claim that “Hosting the Formula One Australian Grand Prix brings significant benefits to Victoria” is not

Maules Creek Mine Economic Assessment Reviewed

Roderick — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:37:41 +0000

Earlier this month we reviewed the economic assessment of the proposed Maules Creek Coal Mine. Our review of the economic assessment formed part of a submission to the NSW Department of Planning by the Maules Creek Community Council.

The good news – we had some fantastic input into our review from some new Economists at Large!

One month in Lao – pictures

Tristan — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 03:33:31 +0000

For the last month, Rod and I have been working in Vientiane and Laksao doing an evaluation of the WWF’s Sustainable Rattan Project in Lao. I’ve been trying to post some pictures of what we’ve been up to for a while but I’ve struggled to find a good WordPress plugin to display the images. I’ve

Maules Creek Community Council

Roderick — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 23:03:05 +0000

In January we assisted the Maules Creek Community Council with their submission on the environmental assessment of the proposed extension to the Boggabri Coal Mine in northern NSW. The NSW Department of Planning is yet to make a decision on the project due to the many queries raised, changing NSW politics and the increasingly

Ecolarge news July-August 2011

Roderick — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:54:48 +0000

A lot has been happening in and out of Ecolarge HQ lately!

Economists at Large just got larger!

In July, Rod addressed the environmental economics lectures at Monash and Melbourne Universities, encouraging young, aspiring economists to get involved with some of our projects. It was great to have so many turn up to our

The economics of seal watching and seal hunting in Namibia [report released]

Tristan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 03:44:49 +0000

Download the full report here.

WSPA, HSI, Bont voor Dieren and Respect for Animals have just released a report carried out by Economists at Large looking at the economics of seal watching and seal hunting in Namibia.

The report examines the economics of the two seal based industries in Namibia: seal hunting and seal watching.