Agricultural and Resource Economics
Description
Training in agricultural economics at the University of New England is designed to help students apply analytical, business and management skills to a range of activities in the rural and natural resource sectors. Graduates have exciting and varied career prospects and our graduates can be found working in senior positions all over the world:
- Managing farm businesses, family properties and large corporate farming enterprises,
- Pursuing marketing & management strategies for agribusiness firms, banks, pastoral houses and primary producer organisations,
- Working with international agencies such United Nations, World Bank, Food & Agricultural Organisation and in other international research centres,
- Helping Commonwealth and State governments formulate and implement policies to improve conditions in the Australian agricultural system and
- Educating people in secondary schools, technical & agricultural colleges and Universities both in Australia and overseas.
Members who teach, research or publish in this specialisation are:
Associate Professor Oscar Cacho
Dr Christie Chang
Professor Euan Fleming
Dr Wen Gong
Adjunct Professor Garry Griffith
Emeritus Professor Brian Hardaker
Dr Robyn Hean
Dr Susan Hester
Associate Professsor Phil Simmons
Associate Professor Jack Sinden
Units offered in this specialisation:
AFM 232 Financial Instruments and Markets
AFM 332/432 Security Analysis and Portfolio Management
ECON 121 Environment and Food: Economic Perspectives
ECON 223 Farm and Resource Management
ECON 224/324 Welfare Economics for Policy
ECON 226/326 Benefit-Cost Analysis
ECON 230/330 Environmental Economics
ECON 329/429 Natural Resource Economics
ECON 331/431 Introduction to Bioeconomics
ECON 333/433 Agribusiness Marketing
ECON 334/434 Finance and Risk Management
ECON 335/435 Commodity Markets
ECON 336/436 Agribusiness Corporate Strategy
ECON 339 Professional Experience
ECON 496/536 Research Seminar / Research Methods
QM 265/365 Business Decision Making
GBB Units
GSB 620 The Agribusiness Environment
GSB 623 Agribusiness Marketing
GSB 624 Agribusiness Strategy
GSB 742 Introduction to Management Science
RSNR 110 Agricultural Natural Resources and the Environment
Residential School dates and timetables are found at: http://www.une.edu.au/tlc/students/resschools/