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...
Food & water
Fiscal-food policies are likely misinformed by biased price elasticities from household surveys: evidence from Melanesia
Fiscal-food policies use taxes to alter relative food prices so as to change diets and are suggested for reducing non-communicable diseases in the Pacific. Price elasticity estimates used by advocates of...
Sustainable development in four East Asian countries’ agricultural sectors post-World War II: measuring nutrient balance and estimating the environmental Kuznets Curve
The purpose of this study is to measure agricultural waste and estimate the environmental Kuznets curve in four East Asian countries using time series data from the 1960s to the 2010s....
Awareness about minimum support price and its impact on diversification decision of farmers in India
In this article, we have analysed farmers’ awareness about Minimum Support Price (MSP) and its impact on diversification of crops grown in India. We used nationally representative data collected by National...
The limits of social protection: the case of hydropower dams and Indigenous peoples’ land
Hydropower dams have been criticised for their social and environmental implications. There have been attempts to create international social standards for hydropower dam projects, but these standards have had limited impact....
Saving the South China Sea fishery: time to internationalise
Environment & energy | Australia
Key points: Twelve per cent of the global fish catch comes from the South China Sea, but that fishery is headed for collapse. This will have important national security implications for...