Biodiversity needs our attention because humans receive a wide range of direct and indirect benefits. Valuation of biodiversity is important to establish the importance of use and non‐use values of biological...
Development
Understanding the spatial disparities and vulnerability of population aging in China
Understanding the regional pattern of population aging in China enables rational policy making to address the challenges of inequity in social welfare and care resources among the east–central–west regions and rural–urban...
The Belt and Road Initiative: what is in it for China?
China’s outbound investment exceeded inbound investment for the first time in 2015. In years leading up this transition, a maturing demographic transition alongside slowing internal migration and diminishing returns to physical...
The Pacific islands in the twenty‐first century
Editorial for the Special Issue of Asia & the Pacific Policy Studies: The Pacific islands in the twenty-first century Guest Editors: Matthew Dornan and Ron Duncan Issue number: 5(3) September 2018...
Australia’s north, Australia’s future: a vision and strategies for sustainable economic, ecological and social prosperity in northern Australia
The release of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Change agreement highlighted the importance of global sustainability internationally. Here, we outline a vision and strategies for developing...
Pacific seasonal workers: learning from the contrasting temporary migration outcomes in Australian and New Zealand horticulture
“Crowding out” is a widely accepted claim in migration analysis, which posits that the preference of profit‐maximising employers for irregular and minimally regulated migrants overregulated alternatives will undermine, if not condemn...